New Friends and Animals

Whilst next door were on holiday we looked after their rabbits. I fed and stroked them and when they were hungry they took carrots out of my hands.

Next door have a trampoline and I bounced high on it whilst they were away. I can also bounce on Dominic's trampoline the other side.

Only Jordan is allowed to do forward rolls on the trampoline because she is bigger and stronger and has been to class. I can do forward rolls on bouncy things. At least I do forward rolls on Mummy & Daddy's bed. I like bouncing on Mummy & Daddy's bed especially in the morning to wake up Mummy.

Daddy & I went camping at a campsite a long way from home. We met some friends of Daddy's and Mummy's and their children. There were lots of children, five plus a baby. I played with the big ones, Josh, Issy and Bethan (called Beth) and there were two little ones George and Katie (she was the baby).

George got stung by a wasp and I have called one of my baby sock dolls George and the other one is called Bethan. Mummy made the baby sock dolls whilst Daddy & I were away and she gave them to me when I came home. When I first met the sock dolls I did not like Bethan at the beginning but did like George but now I like all of them even the Daddy who has blue hair.

We went to a woodland adventure playground. There was a really steep slide that made me feel sick because my tummy went ziiiiip up into my throat. I went on the slide twice. There were other slides that weren't so steep but one had a gigantic bat on the top of it, you could see the image of the bat above you as you slid down.

I was sitting up and tried to grab hold of the steep slide and I fell on my back and was spinning round and round in a circle. I went twice on a zip line because you were only allowed on two times. You sort of tipped to one side at the end so they said keep legs and hands really tight wrapped round it. At then end when it wasn't really high you could jump off and pull it to the man and say goodbye. It was sooo good fun. Soooo good fun. There were some houses and one of them we called school and zoomed in and went and had our lessons. once I was the teacher. We didn't actually like our second teacher even though she spoke in a very nice voice. We don't know what her name was.

Little people like me, not big people like Mike in this picture (Issy's Daddy) can swing on the rope bridges. There were some steps up to get to the rope bridge and you could get to it from two sides. I liked climbing on the cargo net bridge because I thought it was fun.

Mummy took this photo when I was packing for a holiday with Mummy and Daddy in a hotel and cuddled all my cuddlies that were going to go with us. We stayed one night in the hotel and Daddy fell asleep before I did.

We went to our wood after being at the hotel. All of the mums and dads talked until their ears were deaf about what wood they own, pets and stuff like that. There were fierce pouncing dogs that could jump over your head like Aslan but in a bad way whereas Aslan does it in a god way and they were so so scary. I thought about hiding in the car.

Whilst the grown ups were talking I played with Holly. She gave me piggy backs and we became friends when our mums and dads were chatting. I played football and tennis with Joe. There was a log swing with two logs tied together and I played on it and there was a big castle to climb up and I went in it to hide from the fierce dogs. (typers note. Paddy is aged 12 and just wants people to throw sticks for him, not really fierce at all. There was a labradoodle that wanted to have its tummy tickled and a terrier that was a little more aggressive and it was kept on a lead as soon as the owner realised that the younger children were wary. But Bethany clearly has a different view of the dogs!)

A lady a

t the wood, called Emily who works for Gwynedd Council, brought a bat in a box. (typers note. The label on the shoe box said VAMP) It was a Pipistrelle bat. I called that bat Issy. It was a grown up bat but it was sooo tiny it would have fitted in my hand.

It was rather cute and it cleaned its head with his wing like he was flying his wing or stroking it over his face. It also cleaned under its wing with its head. It was in a box because it had a broken wing.

You could only hold it if you had special gloves on. He crawled onto his blanket and Emily lifted it up in its blanket so we could see its face.

Bats go out at bedtime to eat and they eat flying insects but not owls. They live on bugs which they find using sound that is too high pitched for me to hear. You can hear bats with a special kind of walkie talkie called a bat detector. I heard the Pipstrelle bat on the computer and it went bu bu bu bu like horses shoes when they gallop.

Driving home from the wood we sang songs in the car. We sang Quartermasters Stores. I like it because it starts with "Rats, rats, as big as blooming cats". We sang "The bear necessities" that Baloo sings in "Jungle Book" and we sang "king of the swingers" from "Jungle Book" too.

At my holiday dance club Miss Sharon taught us a dance to "king of the swingers" which I really enjoyed doing. Mummy and Daddy couldn't remember the words so whilst Daddy was at archery Mummy and I watched the movie. I made tickets for us and we were going to have popcorn but we had chocolate spread sandwiches instead. At the other dance classes we learned a dance to "I've Got No Strings" from "Pinocchio" and I was Chip when we did "Be Our Guest" from "Beauty and the Beast". Chip was a cup not the Mummy teapot. We learned lots of moves and stretches like the splits and I balanced on Miss Sharon's feet when she was lying down with her legs up. On the last session we did a stretch that Mummy said makes me look like a circle because we lie on our tummies and push our heads back and touch them with our feet.

Auntie Kate showed me how to draw elephants and we gave her a felt purple elephant puppet to take to Africa with her. She has gone to Botswana with Uncle Simon to look for elephants. She was on television because she is an elephant expert and other people are hippopotamus experts and the people on the television were listening to Auntie Kate.

We were at The Almanack and we played Jenga and then built a tall tower. Nick said I could stand on the table next to our Jenga tower (Daddy, Uncle Simon and I built it together and I put the very top piece on the top). I had to take my wellies off to stand on the table because we were going to eat our food there too.
We made the Jenga tower fall down and Uncle Simon did a cheesy grin. It was quite noisy when they all fell down and Uncle Simon tried to catch it but bash it fell down. I had some help to pick up the pieces and caught some of them in my skirt and some in my hands before putting them in the box. I helped Uncle Simon eat his pudding because it was donuts with runny chocolate to dip them in and they had little sprinkles on. It was messy to eat but fun.