Stairs

This is the only way it's possible to get from upstairs to downstairs in our house at the moment...

And sometimes it's the way for getting from downstairs to upstairs, too!

Happy New Year!

All the best to you and yours for 2012!

Engine Engine Number 9

When we were at the Glasgow Science Centre on my birthday, we spent some time building a model of a steam powered wheelchair from Wallace & Gromit. A little ironically it was battery powered but that wasn't important. The lady explained to us how to build it and we talked about the drive and the impact of putting different pieces on that resulted in the wheel not running centrally (a funny lumpy ride was the result!).

Anyway, a nice surprise was that we got to take the model home to finish off. Finishing it off required the cardboard wheelchair shape to be correctly folded and added. Today, Daddy and I did this. And it was no surprise why they didn't want us doing it there! It was difficult and fiddly work. However it did come together in the end and we were both extremely pleased with the quality!

Here it is ferrying some Lego minifigures across the floor:

School Bear

Klaus the bear came home from school to stay with me today. He's here visiting from Germany and a different person takes him home every day. We show him what we do and write in his journal. He was lucky to come to me on a Thursday as there's *loads* I do every Thursday (lucky for him but not for me as it took forever to write it all in his journal!).

First we did my homework.

Then we built my new Lego.

Then we practiced gymnastics before I had to go to my class.

Then we went to gymnastics class (I made sure he had his seatbelt on).

And then it was home for dinner before bed.

In the morning, we had breakfast and I filled in his journal. It was a lot of fun having him stay but I won't miss having to fill out that journal - this blog is hard enough to keep up-to-date!

Portrait

Bit of chillin' in Granny's garden on a beautiful sunny day today.

Astronomical 2011

It was our gymnastics club annual display today. We had two shows and I was in two routines in each show so it was very tiring but a LOT of fun!

Everyone worked very hard and Mummy and Daddy said it was the best one they'd seen so far.

The first routine was an "I love the 80s" theme with lots of eighties music that I'd obviously never heard before!




The second routine was to the tune of I like to move it and I had to kick that section off - getting up and doing the Running Man step before everyone else - I was awesome!

Chocolate Brownies

Mummy made chocolate brownies today. They are amazing. And I got the lick the bowl. It was so good..!

A day with friends

Today we were still in Kingussie but met some friends from back home! We've been trying to catch up with them since before Christmas with no success and here they are on holiday in the same place as us!

Firstly we met at the Highland Wildlife Park. Daddy took lots of pictures of the animals but I won't bore you with them. My friend and I did totally monopolise the zip line for a while though so here are some photos of that!




And here we are riding a wolf!


It's not actually a real wolf you know...


Alright, here's one shot of a tiger. The kid in the photo is not my friend but that tiger turned around and marked the window! If not for the window, it would have hit that girl in the face! You should have seen her parents laugh!!!

From the Wildlife Park we headed to the Frank Bruce Sculpture Trail at Feshie. Not only were we showing our friends the sculpture trail, we were also introducing them to Geocaching! And it was a puzzle geocache where we had to count the faces on all the sculptures to help make up the coordinates for the cache. We had loads of fun and found our first ammo box geocache!

Happy New Year!

Cheers, everyone!

'tis the season to be...

NAUGHTY! La-la-la-la, la-la la, la!

I've been singing this all day! Don't worry, I'm not being naughty, just singing a song that Doofenshmirtz sings in Phineas and Ferb!

Happy Christmas everyone!

All I want for Christmas

is my 2 front teeth!

Disneyland Paris... Again

Yay! Disneyland again! We're back from Disneyland. 5 days this time and I wish it were longer. I wish it were forever! But Mummy and Daddy think that 3 days is actually enough. They're so old.

An early flight out on Sunday morning meant getting out of bed at 3am to get to the airport on time. I at least managed a wee snooze on the bus from Charles de Gaulle to Disneyland and we were in the park by about 11am. Woohoo!


It was very cold this time. Much colder than we were expecting and no one had brought gloves or hats! We spent a lot of the first day rushing between shops so that Mummy could get herself and me some gloves and hats. More for herself than me - I'm not going to feel the cold in Disneyland! While Mummy was looking over the (rather expensive) clothing, I could play with the build-your-own Mr Potato Head!


The dance routine was great and included the Incredibles. Daddy really liked Elastigirl!




Frontier Land had become Halloween Land for the time of year and there were loads of pumpkin people there. A very good effort by Disney!




And we made sure Christopher Columbus got his photo taken too!













And then there are the rides! We can't take photos on all of them but Daddy did get a few photos on some of the more tame rides...





In this photo, you can see Daddy holding Christopher Columbus and me holding our new addition, Yoditch!


Disney's attention to detail is fab. Just being in the place is great fun.





Can you spot Mummy here?











And then there are the characters!








But all too soon it was home time again. And I got to sleep on the bus again!


And that's it for Disneyland. For a while at least. I will be too old to stay and play for free next year... So we'll need to go to Legoland instead!