A new joke and a bit of a ramble.

M is really quite into making up jokes at the moment and has moved on considerably from the time when both K & M would come up with variations of the same joke incessantly and fall about laughing at such gems as 'Why did the X cross the road?' (for X insert pretty much any noun you like)  'Because it needed a poo'.  Now she's very much into word play and although the jokes don't always work I think some are pretty good.  Here's her latest (with permission): 

What's a pirate puppet's favourite thing? 

An aaaarrrrr-m!

I should perhaps point out here, that one of the girls' favourite activities with Daddy is playing with Dr/Mr/Captain Fox, who is a puppet that you stick the whole of your arm in if you're small, rather than a finger or glove puppet.

Since the end of the summer the week seems to have filled up dramatically with activities of one sort or another and we now have a weekly activity (during term-time at least) every day of the week except Wednesday.  The majority of them, in fact all bar one, are 'after school' things so we still have most of the day free, but goodness me our 'What's on this week' A4 page that I put up on a Monday is looking very full!  We have:
Monday - Brownies - K & M
Tuesday - Korfball - K & M
Thursday - Gymnastics (the HE group) and Swimming - K & M
Friday - Ballet - K
Saturday - Ballet M
On Thursday afternoon, as well as gymnastics and swimming, K & M also usually have a piano lesson but C, our friend who teaches them, is having to take some time off for an operation this term.
Then on top of the weekly things, we've got one fortnightly group, another monthly one and monthly ice-skating.

So it's quite nice to have a day with not much planned, like today!  Phase 10 is still the dominant obsession, so of course we played a game of that.  M is still struggling when a round goes particularly badly for her, even if she's way out in the lead, which is rather frustrating, but ho hum!  We also made some more sourdough bread with K helping again, this time talking a bit more about bread making generally.  Both girls played on the Moshi Monsters website again, another of the current obsessions.  We also all had a go with the girls' prizes from the matchbox challenge competition yesterday, Coin Construction, which was quite fun.

M has been reading more of The 101 Dalmatians and was very reluctant to come and have her tea, because the puppies had just been kidnapped and she was very worried about them.  K's been having a bit of a break from The Starlight Barking by reading her Mr Men books but I think she's gone back to it for her bedtime reading.

Finally both girls came out of their second session of korfball looking very hot and sweaty and clearly having enjoyed it, which I'm quite pleased about.  A team sport was one of the few things that I felt was missing from what we do, which, while hardly essential in life, is something that both A and I have both got a lot out of at various points in our lives, including each other and the girls, since we met playing korfball!