There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.

I was reading a post on the confessions of a House Husband before.  The discussion there was about kids doing dangerous things.  Now on that post, it was referring to the kids going down a helter skelter.  I presume it was at the park in town, one which my kids have been to before.  But then in the post, it refers to a child younger than my kids are, and they have gone through that stage.

Anyway, forgive my rambling.  The reason I referred to this was because my kids were in the garden earlier today.  On the climbing frame that I had started to put up ages ago (it is now completed, almost).  Anyway, I looked out into the garden and almost had a heart attack.  On the picture on the link you can not see the bit at the back which kids can climb on.  Quite high for kids.  Anyway, my daughter had climbed up to the top and was trying to climb over it to go down on the other side.  I was tempted to go out and stop her, but why get a climbing frame only to stop kids climbing on it?  The thing is, she is almost five,  My son is two and a half.  He watched, and learned.  Next thing was that I saw (from inside the house) was my son climbing up the frame, determined to do what she did.  He did get quite high, and did manage to get back down again.  Without falling.  For now...

Anyway, I am found a site that I am hoping might encourage my daughter to read.  Once she has finished watching Strictly Come Dancing (thanks to Sky Plus), I will see if it works or not.







I managed to get my son to watch some football this morning.  I tried to get him to watch Arsenal, but he got bored.  Shock horror!  Especially when it was a great game.  Of course Arsenal were a bit fortunate with one foul.  And Bolton were unfortunate with another.  But it is nice to see that ref's are going to punish the challenges that have literally broken players seasons.

   
Dear Noah,
We could have sworn you said the ark wasn't leaving till 5.
Sincerely, Unicorns.