I had my first swimming lesson on Tuesday, another oppurtunity for Dad to deal with my hair when he has to tuck it up into my lovely red swimming hat.  I don't whine as much as Ned did when he pulls my hair though.  I was dead keen and certainly made an impression on my teacher, with my super enthusiasm.  I really enjoyed it and can't wait to go again next week.
I'm still enjoying my school swimming lessons as well.  We think it's cool that we both go on the same day too.
Wednesday was my harvest festival assembly at school, mum came along but didn't get a very good view of my as I was rather obscured by the girl in front with her massive hair:

I loved it, all the singing and the actions.  I'd been practicing at home for long enough anyway.

Yeah she had been, all the same songs as I did when I did it too, I quite enjoyed joining in with her around the house actually.

I got to hang around the playground for ages after school on Thursday as Ned was at multisports.  This was made doubly cool by having my friend Neeve hanging about for ages too, we had a great time.

And I was earning another certificate at Multisports for being player of the day......for football of all things.

The weather was so nice after school on friday we went to the park, now we're both at school we both have friends down there to play with, Dad is completely redundant.

Yeah, except for getting the bikes out of the garage he may as well not bother.

On the way home we saw my boyfriend Charlie outside his house, now we know where he lives he's in real trouble! Ha ha ha.

Auntie Christine came round to look after us in the evening, I was a bit, ummm, tired and emotional it has to be said.

I wasn't, I loved it even if Laura did pop round for a visit with my beloved Darcey.

I finally got my wish on Saturday morning and we did.....NOTHING!  I sat about watching telly all morning, lovely.

I decided to venture out into the garden with Mum and Dad for a bit and do some digging but soon got tired of that and got the skateboard out instead.

We finally gave in and had a walk to the park in the late afternoon for a some sweets before heading home to watch Merlin, we love Merlin.

Had a shopping trip on Sunday, but it wasn't the usual dull fest.

We went to a shop called Decathlon in Reading, they had everything from bikes, to canoes to archery sets.

Yeah, and sledges, boxing stuff and exercise equipment too.

It was great fun mooching about in there.  We also went to Argos and got me a clock radio so I could see what the time is when I wake up.  I am so excited about it.

Then we headed off to the big toy shop in Windsor, there were loads of cool things we wanted father christmas to bring us.

We had a walk back through the park, playing in all the fallen leaves.

When we got home Mum sorted my clock radio out for me, it's so cool I can even get radio one on it.  I 've been listening to it loads, after school on Monday I went straight tom y room, put the radio on and got busy with my Lego and tonight I was listening to Zane Lowe when I went to bed, Dad was pleased about that I think.

We've both got really keen on our learning logs this last week or so.

Yep, even me, theres a house point for anyone who gives there's in on a monday for us juniors....although I doubt i'll ever get one with our usual weekend schedules.

My drawing and artwork is coming on in leaps and bounds too, i'm doing some really nice pictures and some of them are even on paper (and not on my arms, legs or tummy).

I read an entire book with Dad while Ellis was dancing on Wednesday, it had well over twenty pages as well.  This is a real first for me and I was pleased as punch.

I still love my dancing and keep breaking into routines or spins at every available oppurtunity, even during the most mundane moments.

We had to go out for a ruddy walk after tea thanks to Ellis.  Well, I say walk, I took my bike.

Yeah, and I took Dad's skateboard.  I love the skateboard but I found out it isn't quite so good up hills or accross acorn strewn paths under the trees.

I did drumming during my golden time at school on friday afternoon, with some cool bongos.  I loved it, in fact golden time is brilliant in Juniors with so much to choose from.

We had a bit of a surprise on Friday night after tea....

Yeah, how about some new bikes:

We were very pleased with them, mine was shiny.

And mine had gears, I was a little bit overcome for a short time but soon got out on it to give it a quick test.

I would rather like a basket on the front of mine for transporting my soft toys or my babies.  I'm sure i'll get on fitted soon enough, Dad will love that.

Owen, Alan and Andy came round later (get well soon Hayley).  A great oppurtunity to show of our new wheels and manage to get my cool light up helicopter that Slim and Trace got me from Brazil stuck on the roof...not a happy boy.

We had a very slow start to the weekend with a saturday morning lie in.

Followed by helping Dad make pancakes for breakfast...about time to, i've been asking for weeks!

I love the maple syrup but don't like the pancakes so I dip my toast in it!

We eventually left the house after lunch, I was itching to get out on my new bike again:

So we had a trip to the park, a few laps of the little track down there provided a good oppurtunity to get to grips with it, even if I did crash into a tree and graze my shin on the pedal.

I had a few laps on mine too, but peferred to practice my monkey bars (which I can now do, a little bit anyway) and going down the twisty slide as backwards as I could.

It ended up a bit of a rush to get me to James (the new boy at school) party at Northcroft later in the afternoon.  I was pretty excited about it actually, he was having a football party! I had a great time and was even made captain for the match we played and got to pick my team.

I got dragged round town with Mum and Dad, we tried to find me a new winter coat but all the shops were rubbish and almost empty, Mum says it's because Park Way is opening soon?  Whatever, I rode round on Dad's shoulders which was great until I fell foul of a low doorway...WHACK!!!!!!

I also love writing my name, whenever possible and if there's no pen and paper to hand i''ll improvise with my breath and the car mirror:

Sunday we had a sneaky trip to Legoland.

Yeah, we were supposed to arrive a bit later than usual, get all the rides we like ticked off and then leave early.

We hadn't however banked on the Beavers day out.....the place was packed!

We couldn't even find a bench to eat our picnic on.

But armed with out insider knowledge we got on all our favourites (the Pirate boat, no hands all the way, the Big Dragon roller coaster, the cars and the boats).

But most of all Lego Rocket Racers game, which was closing at the end of the weekend to be replaced with something new for next year.  I'm pretty upset about this as it was probably my favourite thing in the whole place.  Still, we'll have to see what they replace it with I suppose....?

I had to be almost forced to do my Learning Log on Tuesday evening (weekly homework).  It was of course the day before it had to be in so the pressure was on. 

He isn't as keen as me on it thats for sure.

We've been playing jungle snap at home a lot lately, i'm brilliant at it and gave Dad a good hiding on more than one occasion.

I've been playing with loads of different children in my class lately, not just Luca and Neeve.  I love waltzing round the school saying hello to everyone, especially down at the juniors when we go to pick Ned up.

We finally did Olympics on Thursday at multi sports, which comprised of long jump (into the sandpit no less), hurdles and throwing the Nerf bomb thingy.   I loved it.

After tea we had to ready our submissions for Fridays cake sale:

We sort of cheated a bit and bought the fairy cakes, but the decoration was all our own work:

Friday was cake sale day of course, very exciting.

They were all out on the picnic tables in the junior playground under umbrellas to shield them from the lovely sunshine we've been having lately.

We got exactly the cakes we wanted, i'd seen some lovely looking brownies in the morning when we dropped ours off and made sure I had one of them.

And I wanted to buy one of our own cakes back.

By the time we thought about getting Mum one, they had all gone though, ooops.  Sorry Mum.

When we got home the car was all packed for camping, we picked Mum up from work, went to call for Andy and then headed West, to Croyde!

We didn't arrive until it was dark so putting up the tent was obviously fun and games.

We helped loads of course.

By the time everything was ready it was quite late but we didn't really fancy going to sleep very much.

Hmmm, we were a bit of a pain in the neck it has to be said.

When we got up on Saturday morning it was a lovely day, I couldn't wait for everyone else to get organised and get to the beach so I had a great time soaking myself with one of the water taps:

The beach was lovely, warm, sunny and not too crowded for the skim board, which i've really got the hang of now:

I did load of surfing with Mum, although she didn't really need to help me at all as I can launch myself now.  I still love to just run about in the water though:

There was digging of course:

Yeah loads of digging.  I was into making big holes:

And I was on more of a sand sculpture tip, I decided to this weeks school homework in the medium of sand.  We had to create a mythical creature, so here is my Crocodile-fish monster thingy:

Sunday was another lovely sunny morning, we had our breakfast sat outside, Andy missed out as he'd left for home early to go and watch the football or something:

We then had to pack everything away before we could go to the swimming pool.

My highlight of the weekend, I love the swimming pool.

Even I was fairly keen it has to be said.

I was all over it, every slide, every bubble pool every water jet, I even completed my first ever underwater forward roll and rode the flume slide alone.

Then we headed home, boo!

Dad assures us it was the last camping trip of the year, whether thats down to the onset of winter or our behaviour is open to specualtion though.

Weird scenes after school today, Mum came to pick us up...brilliant!

Yeah, Dad was working late or something?  Weird indeed.  Still, by the time Mum had walked all the way home she was feeling a little bit warm so we headed to the shop for an ice lolly.

Dad's worried a dangerous precident has been set now....

Got a bit caught out at last weeks 'informal' parents evening, I maybe didn't tell Mum and Dad the whole truth about our reading regime in juniors.  They haven't said anything about it in an official capacity but I think we all know where we stand now.  Other than that it appears i'm doing well at this early stage in the year

And so am I by all accounts, I could have told them that.  I think Mum and Dad just used the oppurtunity to have a nosey about at all our classroom stuff really.  Not that i'm complaining of course as Andy came round to tea and looked after us while they were there.

I had my first school swimming trip on Tuesday, Dad played a blinder and got me a swimming hat that doesn't actullay make me as bald as him every time I put it on or take it off.  So with that sorted I was free to really enjoy it, which was a surprise as I haven't always enjoyed swimming lessons in the past.  I got moved up from the little pool into group 2 in the big pool with most of my mates, so i'm happy about that as well.  In other school news I did so well at maths that I got a 'priority pass' (which means I got to leave first at the end of the day) and a house point!

I had dancing again on Wednesday, loved it as usual.

Although if it had been left to Dad you would still have been there as the poor old fool couldn't work out how to get in once one of the school gates had been locked, good job i'm so on the ball.

We took advantage of Ned staying late for multisports on Thursday by staying and playing in my playground once school had finished.  Then when we got home we had a visit from Darcey and Laura.  I was so excited of course, I drew Darcey a picture and did some lovely writing with Laura.

I did hockey, it was good and I really enjoyed it, even if getting whacked in the shins with a stick hurt a bit.

I got my learning log for the first time friday, I was so excited about it I wanted to do it as soon as I got home, we got busy cutting and sticking straight away.

And I had my first week of new, improved Junior school style Golden Time.  This week I did gardening club with Mr. Jones.  It was cool, we did some weeding and dug up some carrots and potatoes.

Leo came round in the evening with Emma while Max went to a party at the school, he looked really grown up in his school uniform.  We had a lovely game of cars.

Had a trip out to the new small BMX/pumptrack in Bucklebury on Saturday morning.

I rode Ned's old spider bike again, and even though it might be a little big I did really well on it and only had a couple of crashes which I shrugged off.

Once i'd toned my style down for the smaller track I was loving it as well. 

There was a nice park right next door too:

In the afternoon we went to the Oasis swimming pool in Swindon, yay, swimming, my favourite!

I begrudgingly went along....then had a great time!

I even went on the big flume slide all on my own.  Quite brave I reckon?

We stayed in for ages, way past when our session had ended and everything.

Then on Sunday we had a trip to London on the train, to see the Lion King show.

We actually got to sit in proper seats this time rather than standing up all the way too.

We had a short trip on the underground which was great fun with all the escalators and then we had a Pizza Hut for lunch.

An underground Pizza Hut at that, how cool.

We then made our way to the theatre to take our seats:

We were quite near the front, but also right on the end of the row.  We didn't realise how cool that was until the show started and all the animals came down through the theatre right next to us, good seat booking skills Mum!
It was brilliant from start to finish, it must have been, even though I was super tired I didn't get close to falling asleep.
I was also seriously impressed, even though one of my friends at school said that you could see the animal actors faces, I didn't even notice once it had started.  The singing and the dancing was brilliant and I lapped it up, well it one of my favourite stories after all.

We've been very sow getting ready for school this week and Mum had just about had enough.

So we had a telly ban in the morning, oh no!  What a disater!

One thing I didn't need any chasing to get ready for was dancing classes re-starting after the holidays on Wednesday afternoon though. It was lovely to get there early enough to have a chat with the teachers before we started.  They'd asked if i'd had a nice summer holiday and if i'd started school yet.  Dad told them that i'd asked if it was dancing day at least three times a week for the last 7 weeks or so and they seemed really pleased.

I had to do my reading in the car with Dad while we waited.  Now i'm in juniors we get to pick our own books, so I got a lovely factual one about African animals.  Still wasn't that bothered about tactually reading it though and spent most of the time asking Dad whether a Rhino could beat up an Elephant and suchlike.

I bought home my first massive load of artwork from school on friday, a load of 'telescopes' that i'd made.

I had my first session of after school multisports club on Thursday, it was great to be back and I loved it of course.

And I had my last afternoon trip to Tesco with Dad (i'll be full time at school next week).  We had a big final herb smelling session and I got pretty much all of them right, job done!  I also managed to revive my mystery word from Pizza Hut at the weekend...Tom Screws!  Dad didn't have a clue what I wanted when I asked for these at the salad bar, dozy old fool, it was quite obviously croutons I wanted!

Friday and we had a special day off school for Alan and Haykey's wedding, proper exciting stuff.

I was really excited to be having a day off but still spent most of the day looking out of the window to see what my friends were up to in the playground.

We scootered into town with Mum to get her hair cut.

And got a hot chocolate and some biscuits while we were in the hairdressers.  This pleased Dad as he thought we'd got our moneys worth with the haircut.

We got home and had to sort our stuff out for a night away.

Eat some lunch, slowly.

And then Dad was home from work and we were sort of ready to go.

It wasn't far to Wasing Park so we were soon there and checked into our room for the night:

We decided we really liked the room, nice big comfy bed and a lovely close range telly...cool!

Everyone started to show up, we were particulalry pleased to see Yanna and Fen:

We had to pose some pictures of course, I decided to pull faces in all of them:

And then it was time for the ceremony, I was actually pretty excited about it all and made sure I sat on the end of the row so I could get a good view of Hayley in her dress:

She looked very pretty of course, I was pretty much awestruck:

So here we are with Alan, Hayley, Mum, Dad Grandad and Anne:

And here are Abi and I, weighing up Hayleys dress:

Once all the talking and signing and what have you was all finished we headed out onto the lawn for a run about which was cool.

But not as cool as the bouncy castle man turning up, I chivvied him up best I could:

And then we were all on for a good old bounce!

Before I managed to aquire some flowers to look lovely with:

We had a lovely meal, the table had some top notch sweeties for us kids,

With some lovely decorations!

And the coolest Pokemon cake ever:

Once all the eating and talking bits were finished we had another bomb about outside before the disco started and a load more people we knew turned up, cool!

Yeah the disco was pretty good to begin with, but the the grown ups started dancing and it all went down hill really, they were pretty embarrassing so we hid in the corner:

We had a really great day and we hope Alan and Hayley did too!

So we stayed over that night and got to have a lovely breakfast with all of Hayley's family and some of our friends the following morning.

I had a record breaking four bowls of cereal!

We finally made our way home at nearly lunchtime and had a very restfull afternoon.

In the evening though we rounded up Andy and Owen and headed to Pewsey for the carnival.

First thing on the agenda was candy floss:

We had to wait a little while for the floats to start coming but that just gave us plenty of time to get our pockets full of change ready!

Yeah, for throwing onto the lorries, taking great care not to hit anyone of course.

Unless it was an accident...oops!

I think our favourite was this Lego racers one.

Sunday we went to Newbury show, I can't remember what it was like as last time we went I was a baby so I was pleasantly surprised actually, especially with all the animals:

Even I loved the sheep:

But not as much as I loved the super cool army stuff.  We got to shoot paintballs, do Laser Quest and get in a real life tank!

We had a long wander around and saw loads of cool tractors and quad bikes as well as some really smart campervans.

Yeah we had a good old dig about in those, we found where the cookers, sinks and fridges were hidden.

I treally think we shoulkd have bought ourselves one, but apparently they were a too expensive?

There was also a trip on the big wheel, luckily for Dad it could only seat three:

I also won a lovely gold, glittery, light up bouncy ball on the hook a duck game.  Was well pleased with that!

And of course Dad and I did our best to get mum to let us have a hot tub for the garden.....we didn't succeed, maybe next year?

I had my first full day at school today, right up until 3:10 in the afternoon....I managed it easily of course, even if I might have got a little sleepy on the carpet during story time...oops.

I had my first proper day at school on Tuesday, I had been counting down the days for a good while so I was super excited.

And I had my first day in juniors as well, I wasn't quite so excited as Ellis.  Especially as I have to wear a tie now.  Having said that I did manage to tie it myself:

I went off to breakfast club on my own as a special treat, but the usual gate was locked so I had to go round and through the car park.....which I got told off for.  So that was a good start to the new school year.

Dad eventually came home from work to take me in with Mum too.  We went to my classroom and I got to stick my name on the board to show that I was in class.  Then it was on to the cloakroom and I found my very own peg with a lovely little doggie picture on it.  Once all that was dealt with I tucked myself into a game of Jenga and barely even noticed Mum and Dad leave.  I had a great time, just as I was starting to feel a little bit hungry and thirsty we had an apple and some milk.  We played some games together to help learn each others new names and soon enough it was time to go home again (we're only on short days at the moment).

Our new subject for the term is under the sea creatures, i'm well into that of course.  We also had a sand castle building competition which was pretty much ace and I got to put my recently honed skills from Cornwall to good use.

On my next day I gave a little more detail about what we'd been up to during my morning.  We'd sung songs about monkeys, did some painting and chose our own books to take home and read (A Disney princess one and a Beatrix Potter story with a mouse called Timmy Willy in it which I found conpletely hysterical ).

We managed to get our energy levels back up to scratch for a trip to the park on Thursday after school which was nice.

Dad cleared off for the weekend on Friday, by the time we got up he'd gone. 

So it was Mum and us for the weekend.

And Auntie Christine to pick us up from school on Friday afternoon, yay!

Even if she did tell Alastair off for throwing stones.

When Mum got home she'd got us some sweets that were soooo fizzy we couldn't even eat them.

And then made us Spaghetti that was so salty that I said it was saltier than the sea!

We had a wander down to the canal to feed the ducks on Saturday morning.

Followed by an afternoon at Shreya's birthday party at Krazy Klub.  When we got there Mum discovered I hadn't put any knickers on under my dress....oops.  I was banned form going on any slides, not good.  Luckily Kimi nad Marney were eleaving just as we got there so I managed to borrow a pair of her spares, thanks!  The party was really good fun, even if I did get caught attempting to ride a scooter from the top of the big bumpy slide.

I went along too which was a rare treat, I played with my old nursery friend Edward again but mostly got chased round by Lois' big sister.

When we got home, I decided i'd let my party balloon go for Nanny and Grandma:

Sunday we had a very lazy sofa and TV day until we had to go and pick Dad up.

At least he'd got us a present I suppose!

We decided to celebrate our re-unification with a trip to Pizza Hut, hooray!

Auntie Christine looked after us last Tuesday.

Well, Auntie Christine with a rolling cast of Laura, Darcey and Uncle Den at various parts of the day anyway.

Yeah, how lovely.  We watched Toy Story 3 and went to the park amongst our trips to two supermarkets to get my Garlic Roule cheese (my current favourite).

Mum had Wednesday off, we had a quiet morning and we're all set to go to JJ's in the afternoon.

We were, but I was being a bit of a naughty boy and we didn't go.  Oh dear.  I was rather upset to say the least.....

We went to Snelsmore in the late afternoon instead.

I did NOT want to go, at all, under any circumstances.

I did, I love going up the woods and wandering about.

I changed my tune pretty soon when we saw the horses grazing and I tried t sneak up on them......no good they saw me a mile off and suantered off. 

We loved the swing of course:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes we did indeed, I decided I liked the woods after all (but JJ's would have been better):

We did a little bit of tree climbing:

Trip to the cinema on Thursday, I love the cinema.

We went to see Mr. Poppers penguins with Auntie Trish and Auntie Christine.  We loved it.

Yeah, we really loved it and talked about it all night at home afterwards.

We visited the pasty shop for lunch and ate it by the canal in the sunshine, lovely.

Then it was home to give Auntie Trish a crash course in the fine art of Uno playing.

Then it finally happened, we actually went to JJ's at long last. 

Yes we did indeed, there were car seats and no bad behaviour...nothing to stop us!

Trish and Mark came to pick us up and head back to Amazingstoke, we were the first ones through the door so it mega exciting.

We gave them the full guided tour as they hadn't been before, Mark stepped up to the plate with a trip around the very top section which is super tight and wriggly and of course he went on the drop slide.

And so did I!  Without anyone holding me or anything.  I had a little pep talk from Ned and then...whoosh! 

We had a McDonalds for lunch to round things off before returning home.  Perfect.

Once we'd picked Mum up from work we headed off to Hungerford for a riverside picnic, Dad was desperate to wring the last bit of summer out for all it was worth.

I bolted my picnic down as quick as I could as I couldn't wait for a splash about.

I ate a little more than Ellis was but soon enticed in, the swing is still really cool:

Weird scenes on saturday, Mum went out on her own for the day to something called a Hen party?  It was for Hayley so we're guessing it's something to do with the wedding thats coming up?

We ordered Mum to take a Legoland Badge with her to remind her of us.

Whatever it was all about we had Dad for the day alone, luckily he'd seen sense and organised some activities for us. 

Yeah we went bowling with Alan, Andy, Owen, Kin, Fen and a chap called Chris.

We had a good time, even though I was a little disappointed with my bowling performance.

I wasn't, I got some strikes and even beat Owen (without using the ball launching ramp thing I might add).

After the bowling we had a go on the arcade machines for a good while.

We went home for a lovely bit of shepherds pie for me!

And some hot sausage rolls for me before we were given the choice of a bedtime story or Dr. Who.

Dr. Who won out of course, we had a cuddle up session and watched it before turning in for the night Mumless.

There was very little activity on Sunday morning, I think it turned out to be a rather late night for the grown ups in the end.

Thankfully Slim and Trace paid us a visit to liven things up, sporting their Brazil suntans

and some really cool pencils made out of tree branches that they'd got us on their travels.

And a really cool elastic band launched, light up helicopter thing, sounds complicated, looks awesome, can't wait for the dark evenings to see it in all it's glory.  Of course I had to teach Slim how to play Uno, we gave him a good old stuffing but Dad says thats only because we weren't playing for money.

It was then time for Luca's party, I was really looking forward to this one.  It started off in the sports hall with all the gymnastic equipment set up as an obstacle course.  I was on it straight away, balancing over the beam easily and jumping form the really high bits.  Then it was bouncy castle, Bumpers and then the food.  Luca and I were the first ones to eat up by a mile...spaghetti!!!!

And what exciting things did Dad and I get up to while the gorls were out?  Well, I played a Motocross game on the Wii while Dad watched bike racing on the internet.  He was getting rather excited about it all too, in fact just like some people do when there's football on the telly?

I came home pretty worn out, but stil had enough energy to give Ned my cake (that had yucky jam in it) and give my lovley Poppy a bit of loving:

Then it was monday, the last day of the summer holidays.

Mum was at work so Dad was on duty today.  We had a slow start with a bit of computer games/telly/board games before we went to town to take Mum out for lunch.

We finally found a copy of the Harry Potter book thats missing from home.  Thats good, I can carry on with those at bedtime now.

And then in the afternoon we went to the Uffington white horse, my word it was windy:

But it was also seriously cool, thousands of years old apparently? 

Whatever, it was on a massive hill and we loved it.  We could see for miles (until the rain swept in anyway). 

We walked all the way around the hill fort too, where I gave Dad and Ellis a brief outline of how I would defend the castle if it was up to me.  This included Stinging nettles, brambles, rose bushes and thistles as a front line.  Followed by a team of trained angry horses adn kicking donkeys, backed up by kicking kangaroos, a sprinkling of tigers and lions and then a crack squad of assasin beavers. 

We got home and I went through my final preparations for my first day at school tomorrow.  I've chosen to go with my summer dress for my first day.  I'm pretty excited about it as well!
And I had a crash course on how to tie a tie now i'm going to be a junior.  Remarkably I think i've got the hang of it already, must be Mum's expert teaching?
So thats it for this week and indeed the summer holidays too.  We'd like to really thank everyone who's looked after us over the last six weeks, and I hope you have recovered from whatever ill effects you may have incurred (ringing of the ears, stress, the snivels etc.).