Sports Day

On Saturday it was Ingleton Village Sport's Day - in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Coronation.  Knowing how much Tom likes his sports we thought he should take part so we entered him in for every race for his age group.

The day started off well with blue skies and heat, but unfortunately it clouded over and that evil cold wind was back giving us all goosebumps.  Tom didn't seem to mind and put on his England football strip ready for the games.

Sack race champion

He had quite a few races:

1) Obstacle course - he came second
2) Sack race - he came first
3) Egg and spoon race - he came second
4) Sprint - he came second
5) Backwards race - he came second
6) Long jump - he came third
7) Throwing - he came third

Sounds very good doesn't it.  Problem was that there weren't that many in his class - some races there were only 2 of them and some there were 5, but 5 was the maximum.  Such a shame, we were hoping to meet more people from his class, but it didn't happen.  He mainly competed against another boy who was in Reception.  Oh hum, Tom loved it though - he was so excited about it all and came home with a sheaf of certificates.

Video of Tom racing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnrWRr8cZA

In the evening the village had organised a disco and party tea for everyone.  Wow, we really weren't expecting so much and all free.  It took Tom quite some time to get into the dancing so I had to mum dance with him (sober so for me it was quite painful!) He really wanted to dance, but he didn't know anyone to dance with.  However, there were a couple of games of musical hats / bumps / chairs and after that Tom was fine racing around the hall by himself meaning I could get off the dance floor.  All in all a great day - Tom really had fun.  Thanks Ingleton.