T-Bird Anni Rides Again

How can Aprilia love Harry Potter so much, lap up the stories, watch the films back to back give me funny looks for sobbing uncontrollably at the sad bits and STILL be reduced to a quivering wreck at Finding Nemo

She’s a funny kid sometimes…. what do I mean sometimes? 

She also had a major melt down the other day with the arrival of the Kung Fu suit.  I’d promised her a suit for her first grading and ordered it in plenty of time assuming it would be the regulation 28 days delivery, it was posted the same day it was ordered!  Trouble is that although she is really excited about the whole getting a yellow belt thing, she is really quite bothered about the process, wants to do it but doesn’t, is convinces she’s not going to manage it then demonstrates the whole sylabus perfectly, in short is a total bag of nerves about it.  I’ve told her she can skip it for this year if she wants but can still keep the suit because she’s proved she’s going to stick with it, I’ve told her that she will ahve more than one chance during the celebration to show what she can do, I’ve told her Shifu wouldn’t put her in for the grading if she wasn’t ready, she’s still wobbly.  Sigh, sometimes I think there is just too much of me in that girl!

In other news, I spent quite some time yesterday downloading books from LibriVox so I can enjoy some "reading" without so much effort, well, it’s the only way I can see of me ever getting through the huge list of books on my "must read before I die" list!  Trouble is, whilst I was browsing, I found several other books that weren’t previously on my list but looked good too!  So, just need to burn them all to CDs and settle down for some storytime (Duke bought me a shedload of blank CDs and cases taht you can fit lots of CDs into to try to keep the growing collection under control.)

By the way, has anyone else lost all sense of humour over children not adapting to this hour change?