Hit on

We've had extra swimming lessons all this week. A boy called Owen in Rosie's group, who is "ten years old and in Year 5" rather fancied her.

Rosie: "Owen asked for my phone number. I said I didn't have one."

Maybe he just thought she was a bit short.

True love.....

Rosie had Adam over to play today.
Adam: "Why does Rosie have a sexy bum?"

Daddy did not have a reasonable answer.

Books

Rosie just finished Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and has now embarked on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Holly continues to persevere admirably with the Diary of Anne Frank...

World Book Day

World Book Day today, so we can go to school dressed as a book character.

Rosie is Hermione Granger, and Holly is Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden.

Anne Frank was too complicated.

Spectacled Bear Time

When we have time without our sister and only one parent, we call it Little Bear time.

Rosie thinks that now we aren't little, we should maybe have Grizzly Bear Time.

She also thinks that time spent alone with Mummy should be Spectacled Bear Time.

Browser

Rosie: "Please can I use the grown-up laptop? Because I want to Google something in Mozzarella Firefox...."

Anne Frank

Holly has started reading The Diary of Anne Frank - and took it to Holiday Club today so she would not have to stop reading it.

The Bookery

...is what Rosie calls the independent bookshop in Bath that Auntie Alex took us to, then to Waterstones, and to which we insisted on returning so Holly could stride to the counter stating "I am looking for The Diary of Anne Frank."

Young Men

Auntie Alex, to Finny: "... and I want the change back from that."
Holly, to Auntie Alex: "Auntie Alex... I think that young men hide the change from their mothers."

"Holly's Memery Bank"

Rosie has made this aide memoire for Holly in the mornings. She must put her book bag in her tray, put her water bottle in the box, sort her meal ticket, and sit on the carpet.

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Execution

Mummy: "Holly, please get ready for your bath. And if I find you reading a book I'll have to confiscate it."
Holly: "Yes. Daddy executed two of my books this morning."

Children's Area

We went to the Jolly Sailor in Teignmouth for lunch today. Nice pub, and children not allowed in the bar but can go where the pool table and dartboard are. Indeed, it is signposted "Children's Area".

So when a middle-aged couple come in for a Sunday beer and sit down, Holly squares up to them and says "This is the CHILDREN'S area!"

And indeed, they got up and moved...