OK, so now the title ‘6 going on 16′ doesn’t really work so I’ve updated the title to simply Olivia.
I’m going to upload a vid (hopefully) shortly taken on her birthday, which went well.
Not sure why some of these allow a thumbnail and some don’t, you’ll have to click on the title links to see some of them, click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version
The weather has been mixed so we’ve been looking for things for the kids to do that doesn’t revolve around swimming in the river. Yesterday we went to a ‘tree climbing’ park where they have cables running from tree to tree and the kids (and adults) have to make their way around a course whilst attached by a harness. There were course of varying difficulty - all the kids did the fist course but Gabriel, as the oldest, had been given a ticket for the next course up. Olivia was giving me a hard time because she also wanted to do it but when it came to doing it he couldn’t get past the first hurdle as he just wasn’t tall enough, so that settled that.
Olivia liked her new bike so much we had to go out for a ride straight away, despite (or maybe because) it was already dinner and bed time. We went scrambling down overgrown paths until I got a puncture and had to whiz home before it became completely flat. So that was good 
Olivia’s bike is WAY too small and meanwhile Gabe’s old bike would be perfect for her - except that it’s blue and not pink. Gabe’s bike is a good one and being loathe to shell out for a new bike when we have a perfectly good one already, I stripped it down, painted it pink and today managed to put it back together again
It looks pretty good, I hope she likes it. She’s seen it ‘in progress’ but is at the pool and still hasn’t seen the finished product. Fingers crossed.
Thanks to James & Rach for the piccie
Olivia’s school broke up in the middle of June and she doesn’t go back until the middle of September - which is a long time to be entertained!
She spent the first couple of weeks catching up on sleep but got bored towards the end of it. Gabe had been doing a club (which she should have done) but she didn’t want to.
We went to Mallorca for a family holiday last week - Olivia was spoilt rotten by just about everybody there and enjoyed diving into the pool to collect money thrown in. She got given money by her great grandmother (nana shmana) and loved going to the tourist tat shops to buy overprice nick nacks. She had a hole burning in her pocket as far as money was concerned! Before leaving we bought an oversized ensaimda, which is a mallorcan specialty which she loves for breakfast. I thought it disappointing, I’ve had better on mainland Spain, but it went down well with O.
Now we’re back in Vilanova and she’s started a horseriding club (lucky girl!). Of all the clubs on offer she really really wanted to do this one. It sounds really good - on her first day there was just herself and her friend, Ruby, so they got real personal attention. More people have joined the group now. They started out bareback riding and it seems more about getting to know and be comfortable around horses than the prescriptive type of horse riding lesson.
The holidays continue to stretch ahead, with nana Pauline coming out with Ray as the next ‘event’.
