Fun visit to the library

I had every intention last night of posting what we had just read but fell asleep about 5 seconds after putting down the last book. So Benji and I had a lovely 10 hour sleep together and consequently we've been in top form today!


Last night's repetoire comprised a Spot book, My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes and The Wonky Donkey. Since our ebay purchasing junket we have been playing the My Cat Likes to Hide in Bokez game which goes something like:

Kate: "The cat from Spain flew an aeroplane but my cat liks to hide in..."

Benji: "BOKEZ!!!"


And so on and on and on, through France and Norway then via Berlin to Greece and way across to Japan and then crossing the equator down to Brazil.

The star of the night was The Wonky Donkey. Erin and Edward gave it to Benji for his 2nd birthday, which is funny because they gave him My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes for his 1st birthday. It's a doozy although Benji doesn't quite get it. It starts with "I was walking down the road and I saw a donkey, HEE HAW! and he only had three legs! He was a wonky donkey". Then it is revealed the donkey has one eye and likes country music, which makes him a honky-tonky winky wonky donkey. Then we find out he's tall and slim, so he's a lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey. I never realised that there are so many nky-ending words in the english language.

I love reading this tongue-twister of a book. It rhymes, I get to express myself with a tremendous HEE HAW! on every page and - Benji will love this one day - it has a fart joke in it. The illustrations are great too.

Our 10 hour sleep resulted in a lovely trip to the library this morning. Benji spent quite a while jumping on the beanbags in the children's area before settling down to read a few stories. We stayed for about an hour and have made a list on the right side of the page of what we borrowed. You cant go wrong when 3 out of your 10 books' titles end with an exclamation mark. I am especially looking forward to Crusher is Coming! and Mister Magnolia, while Benji has his sights on Wibbly Pig Likes Bananas. Which is fine, so long as it gives us break from the omnipresent Spot. His cutesy puppy dog antics are beginning to get on my nerves...