It is a year today since we first got Oscar. And what better time to announce the new idea i had for my blog - flashback stories.

Basically, i'm gonna just go back and tell you about things that've happened before i started this blog. I'll do this later in this post and talk to you about when we got Oscar.

BUT FIRST... This week i'm doing Key Skills where basically we go into school and do tonnes of writing and work solidly for a week at school with no other lessons but we do that for the whole day. So far we've designed and almost finished building some rockets from bottles which we plan to launch on friday.

Yesterday we done a bridge building task where we had to make bridges out of paper in a clever way. Only 2 bridges met the specifications to complete it which were it had to span a 60cm gap and it had to stand with a small weight (think pencilcase weight) on it for 15 seconds. Ours was one of them but the other one collapsed on 16 seconds so i think we should have got a prize.

Today we done a knot making thing plus we finished off all the paperwork for the bridge building and we did a mindmap aswell. I think we have about 18 pages of writing to do plus mind maps and stuff like actually carrying out these projects. It's kinda like a big long exam where you get to talk throughout and it lasts 5 days. That's probably the best way to describe the written stuff. We also done more on the rockets. This was the bit where we turned out design into a model which we'll use. It looks quite good.

Ok, so onto a year ago today. I had NO idea that we were getting a dog, i just vagely remembered my mam blabbering on about going to visit some that day. So i got home in the car with my dad and then i seen some cat sick on the ground from next doors cat as my dad rang the doorbell.

I said "Why had Tiger (next doors cats name) puked on our doorstep?".

Then my dad said "I dunno. Must be off him though cause we havn't got a cat." Then mmy mam opened the door and he went "We've got a dog." And then right on cue this tiny little yellow labrador puppy comes wandering up to me looking very excited. I was gobsmacked.

Then my dad went to get my brother from school (lazy mam, making him do the school run) and during that time i have 1 very good memory of my mam lying on the sofa talking to me and then Oscar (who wasn't named until 4 days later in the car one day) standing beside me. I then lifted him onto the bottom end of the sofa where my mams feet were and he walked up the sofa to where here head was and i remember that it would take him 3 or 4 steps now but it must have taken him about 10 steps to get all the way up the sofa. Then when my brother got home i showed him the picture (with oscar locked in the livingroom) and whilst filming him i said "We're getting a dog, and this is him *shows the picture*." He got excited. Then i said "Be better if we could have him now though wouldn't it?" and he went "yeah.." and then i opened the door to reveal the tiny little oscar. I have the video of that somewhere but i dunno where. Here's the picture though which was taken in his first hour in our house:



So that's my first flashback story.