Summertime

Well, for today at least summer has finally declared itself! Fortuitously just in time for local town's annual carnival, which just happens to be held in the park behind my house. Most handy!
X and I headed off just after lunch, after a sojourn to ToysRus to buy some Bindeez as a treat for being a good girl for the last few days and getting such a good school report. As well as getting level 3's in all her SATs, (the national average for her school year is 2 - and she is one of the youngest!), her teacher had the following to say about her...

"X is a kind, respectful, caring member of the class. As the year has progressed she has developed maturity, enthusiasm and commitment to do her best. She enjoys responsibility and is a fantastic helper; she carries out jobs to a very high standard. X responds well to praise and does seem to become under-the-weather if she feels she is not being praised or achieving as well as she would like. X has a good sense of right and wrong; she often takes unsure pupils under her wing or tries to sort out disputes. At times she needs reminders that this helpfulness can sometimes distract her from her work. I am sure she will be an excellent organiser, a brilliant 'people person' when she gets older."

Much as she drives me to distraction sometimes (with that helpfulness and need for constant praise), she is a good girl at heart, and I'm glad to know she is caring and kind, just like her brother. Though you wouldnt know it of either of them when they get together!!

The carnival was good, although potentially expensive, X was given £5 and told when it was gone it was gone. It was soon gone of course, but both my kids are used to this rule whenever we go on holiday or on trips, so she was fine with that. Lucky devil that she is she spent 50p on the local paper's wheel of fortune thing and won a 4disc CS Lewis dvd. Result. She did want to take a bag of Haribo as her prize!!! but was fairly easily convinced otherwise, especially when she realised there were sweets in the goody bag they also gave her!

We stayed for a couple of hours watching the shows; a great Scottish pipe band (I love that!), some local majorette/cheerleaders, an aerobics display, some local singers/bands and a fantastic boys gymnastic group that was just amazing - leaping over cars amongst other things!! Enjoyed some sunshine and some nosh (cheeseburger for me, calamari for X!!), and then took the 5 min stroll home again, for some Bindeez fun!!