Little things.

We've been doing quite a bit of arithmetic over the past few days, mostly because Destination Hogwarts involves adding up house points at the end of the game!  They had a game, just the two or them, this morning which ended in a draw, which is a first.  M has also been writing lots of messages, although she would deny this, as the letters I've been receiving, which have been delivered by owl post, have been from her toys.  They've been scrawled on very small pieces of paper and rather difficult to read, but she's been open to me asking her to tell the particular toy who wrote the message how to spell particular words correctly!

We've also spent quite a lot of time in the garden today, including having a game of 'years'.  Years is a game that M has been talking about occasionally for some time now, it's played between giraffes (she has 2 cuddly ones).  The rules seemed to develop as we played, but some of the key points are as follows:

• one team is the bats and the other catches for the whole game
• you decide which by the most inexperienced player from each time drawing something from a hat
• spectators can join in at any time if they want to for as long as they want to
• you don't have to stick to one team
• batters get points by hitting the ball through the door of the playhouse into a hoop
• catchers get points by catching the ball or getting them into various items such as a dustpan or plant pot
• you are allowed to stand or run with the ball, but not walk
• the game starts and finishes when M says 'Boom'
• towards the end of the game M starts humming, increasingly loudly as a warning that she is going to say 'Boom' soon

Finally I thought I would share a couple of pictures the girls have done of 'their' Harry Potter characters.

M's Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody

K's Nymphadora Tonks