Dress Up Party

We had a leaving party at nursery for the four year olds who are going to school or not staying at nursery. Laura and Amy, the grown ups, had made presents for us children and Mummy keeps telling me the hats are called mortar boards. My ribbon kept tickling my nose whilst I sat waiting for my name. Amy read a poem to us because Laura was crying.

The poem was this:

Graduation

A celebration...

A time for looking back on lessons leaned, adventures shared, bright moments filled with special meaning.

A farewell...

A time for saying goodbye to old friends, to good times you've known...a time for packing away memories, treasures for tomorrow.

A beginning...

A time for looking forward, a time to set new goals, to dream new dreams, to try your wings and see what lies beyond.

We had a presentation and shook hands with Amy and Laura when they called our names. They gave us presentation and bye bye stuff including a photograph of me and a certificate and a scroll. There was a lady taking photographs of us and she said I was good at standing where I was supposed to so she asked everyone to stand next to me.

We said three, two, one and threw our hats in the air all the way to the sky to land on the witches house and they were never seen again.

Laura is also leaving nursery so we hugged her as tight as possible for the lady to take a photograph. We also squished Asha because she was the smallest. And it was Joe's birthday and he was telling us about his new trampoline that his Mummy used.

The next day at nursery was Laura's leaving party and it was a fancy dress up party. I was a devil with horns and a cape. Laura was a princess, her dress was like Cinderella's at the ball. Will was batman, Arthur was Robin Hood, Mavi was a knight with a sword and a shield and his costume was armour and a helmet which came on and off. The grown ups dressed up too. Chloe and Sam were fairies with wings on their backs and Amy was a cat and Tegan was a pirate and Frankie and Gemma were cowgirls and Frankie had a pretend pink gun in a pink holster. The grown ups went into Coventry for the evening in fancy dress up and Laura was going as Super Girl.

I went to Joe's birthday party at the Stratford Armouries. They had scary papier mache animals and creatures that the man makes using bottles and egg boxes and things and I thought they were real and was quite scared.

When I arrived I dressed up as a warrior princess and I tried on a helmet and wore it for a long time but I didn't keep the visor down because I couldn't see. Callum had one that looked like a lion. There was a story teller and he told us the tale of King Urur and his son Prince Yo. The story included flowers (and we had to make a flower face), trees (and we had to put our arms up like trees) and a fountain (and we made fountain sounds).

The dragon king (we had to flap our wings and then do a fierce dragon face) stole Prince Yo and we fought the dragon king's soldiers and threw our weapons at them and then threw food and clothes. We took our boots and wellies off and even trousers. Callum shouted out that we should throw pants too and so we had a spell which was "Callum's pants, Smelly pants, Woohoo (with crossed arms) and this turned the dragon king's soldiers into statues so we could continue our journey.

There was a statue of an Indian elephant with real armour on and the armour had spikes on the knees. There was a house on the elephant's back with people in and weapons and stabbing swords. In the story the elephant was the elephant god and it took us to visit the pig wizard. The pig wizard was a metal pig mask that in olden days (before Grandpa's Grandpa was born) in Germany if you did anything bad like punch someone, do something against the law in the days or wave a fork around you had to wear the mask for a month (typists note, I remember it being worn for a day but Bethany is telling the tale) and all your friends would laugh at you as punishment. Joe was the pig wizard voice and he was being all shy and quiet so the elephant god translated his finger sucking into a language. The dragon king was actually armour for a horse with smoke pellets in the nostrils to make it look as if the horse was really fierce and breathed fire. King Urur gave him a garden and they played together and it was a happy end to the story.

Then we went to play and giggle and laugh. There was a bumpy fast slide and we went wee bump, wee bump, wee bump and then thrown off at the end with a soft bump. I went on the slide 92 times or perhaps I should say at least 11 times. There was an air blowing machine and I stood on it to see if it would lift me up like it lifted balloons and balls but it just blew my skirt up. The balloons went up up up and then you had to stand on the blower to catch them and they would suddenly go on the ground. I tried to hug my balloon so tightly it popped. Joe had a castle cake with knights all over it. It was a proper castle and the cake was made by Sam's mummy and it had eggs and jam in it and it tasted good. I don't know what the other ingredients were that made it.

Time for a story "When there was no-one on earth suddenly one person came out really really quietly before the moon went in front of the sun and no-one was there to watch the eclipse but this one person who had lots of legs tied up with all the bodies getting tinier and tinier until the tiniest body would fit in my hand but it started the same size as Daddy. The one at the very front was alive but all of the others were dead. He sneaked around and broke everything up so everything was ruined and then lots of real people came up and all the monks arrived and the first person ran away and all the tied up people came alive and kicked their legs and nearly fell over. The monks were hammering away making the ruins even more ruined. The one who was the big one at the front had nothing on."

There was an ice skating rink at Talisman Square in Kenilworth. I fell over four times and Rhianna fell over twice when she went on a different day. It had been raining so much it bashed on your head but it was dry when Daddy and I went on the rink.

It was just me and Daddy on the rink and Mummy was watching us and taking photographs. I did ballet dancing moves on the ice because there was music to listen to. Daddy was faster at skating them me but I could do more tricks.

I walked like a penguin and skipped, and went in circles. I lifted my legs up. It wasn't actually ice, not real ice, because it is summer. Daddy said it was plastic that we skated on. It was good to have Daddy to support me, especially when I did my twirls.

My skirt and hands got wet when I fell over. I cut my leg a little on the skates when I fell but I was OK. I enjoyed it. We went to The Almanack when we finished ice skating because nearby Costa Coffee was closed so we walked up the road and just missed the big rain downpour. There were baby quails in the incubator of the furniture shop and they had a mop to hide in. They were so tiny because they were only 3 days old and they would have fitted in my hands.

Mummy and Daddy had hot chocolates with marshmallows and my hot milk had marshmallows too and I had a pot of smarties to eat and it rained lots and lots whilst we were inside and warm and dry.

We went to visit Saia at the other Flutterbies nursery to see how she was. She has lots and lots and lots of chickens and is looking much better. Our chickens still look stronger and healthier but Saia looked happy. The bully chickens were locked in a run and Saia had more space to walk around.

Dusty Bluebells

I'm home from nursery (today is Thursday) and want to make Mummy type on my weblog. I went out in the garden before my meals and when I came in I took my wellies, my socks and my cardigan off. They said on the weather forecast that there was going to be some thunder and lightning and I went to the park with Daddy and there was some rain but it was only drizzle so we didn't get wet and we didn't see any thunder and lightning. I am cross that they promised thunder and lightning on the weather forecast and I didn't see any.

I had cheese on toast and tomato ketchup today. And for my other meal I had potato and carrots and mashed up mince. The stars were my breakfast.

I have to go and be dead now so my prince can wake me and I can ask him to marry me. My prince says I have to drink my milk or he won't marry me and he says he won't marry someone who puts their toes in his ear.

My dress buttons kept coming undone today and every time Laura at my nursery looked behind me I was showing my bottom because of the buttons undoing. Mummy wondered if someone had been following me around undoing my buttons but I think they kept undoing themselves. Daddy took me to the park and I went on the new swing that is a bowl and you can fall asleep in it.

In swimming the day before today I did two widths without my armbands and I sat by the wall waiting for the other class to finish.

Here I am singing "In and out the dusty bluebells, in and out the dusty bluebells, in and out the dusty bluebells, who will be my partner?" Mummy says it should be dusky but I think it should be dusty like my house.
I have a graze on my knee from falling down when I shouted Nanna and she turned around. She had kept walking so I had to call for her to help me up. And I was very brave on the mountain and we had to go side to side because it was so steep. The mountain is near Nanna & Grandpa's house and I climb it with them when I have a NannaGrandpa holiday. I had a NannaGrandpa holiday because Mummy was at pottery camp.

I am hugging my cousin Russell after collecting him from school. We are holding very tight so that my other cousins (Tom and Alex) can't bounce us off. We had a picnic in the park and Russell showed me his classroom. Nanna and Grandpa took me to see Auntie Leonie and Uncle Barry and the car was very full so I couldn't sit in the boot. Their car is called Kanga because the numberplate includes ROO.

(typers note. We stopped typing in the blog because of me being busy preparing for the Kenilworth Festival which was a bit of a wet and squally affair in the end. It is now Tuesday 19th May and Bethany wants to do more on her blog and has drawn some pictures in MS Paint to include, so over to her...)

Nanna & Grandpa came to help Mummy at the Festival and to look after me. Nanna took me to the Almanack before they were open and Jeremy let us in but they were cleaning so we couldn't eat so we waited and waited until they let us have some food even though they were still cleaning away. It was early in the morning, Grandpa said it was too early. I had a bacon batch but it was a sandwich because they didn't have any batches. I had tomato ketchup with it. There were some chicks in the window of the furniture shop and they were only two days old and would have fitted in my hand. I didn't go on the donkey because I wanted to be a bit more bigger before I did it. I did go on the trampoline and needed new socks because it was a wet trampoline. I went on the bouncy slide and did forward rolls on the roller and showed my bottom and jumped around and ran around but I didn't go on the bouncy castle because I ran out of time. It was rainy except for the bits of sunshine. Nanna got very cold and wet and I helped Mummy dry the chairs so people could do pottery painting and I cleaned the tiles too. Grandpa tied my balloons to Mummy's gazebo but my butterfly that the clown made for me popped its wings and became a caterpillar again. My helium balloons didn't stay up on the ceiling long after we took them home and my balloon on a stick shrank and made my fingers black when I tried to take it off the stick. Some of my balloons are still blown up but they are smaller now and tied together.

The day before today I was Mummy's pottery assistant and wore my bear badge with my name on that I painted. We went to a baby group and I took my polar bear Lily in the back pocket of my butterfly coat. One of the babies caught Lily and she even pulled Lily's ear even though she is real and you don't hold real animals by the ear. The baby's Mummy told her that Lily was mine and she let go when I pulled Lily to me. We had an in car picnic. Daddy took me to ballet because Mummy was at a party. After ballet Daddy took me for a run as fast as we could because it was raining at us so we zoomed down the ramp and leaped into the car and drove away so that we didn't get rained on. He took me to his work because he needed to pick something up. He left me in the car sitting down because he said he couldn't take me into the building so I listened to Paddington instead. Then we went to Sainsburys but I had been there earlier with Mummy to collect fruit boxes. We took some strawberries out of a box so that we could take it for Mummy to roll clay in.

Now I am going to play Solitaire on my computer so I need to concentrate on the numbers and I like to collect the Queens.

Time for a story:

Once upon a time there was a little man about as big as my whole hand. He stayed the same size as my hand every single day and every single birthday. He was called Tom Thumb because he was as big as a thumb.