Firstly a thank you for everyone who sent me their jokes and humorous material. I can assure you that they have been tried out on Little Miss. Sadly they haven’t been all that successful, but I think that has a lot more to do with the delivery than the material. I am really going to have to work on my timing.

Maybe it has more to do with the material seeming forced when I try and deliver it. What really cracks up Little Miss is those things that are unscripted and just kind of happen - these are her current favorites and are guaranteed to make her giggle:

• When Dad drops something, or almost drops something or performs any act in his usual clumsy manner.
• When Usurper throws food on the floor - preferably something really really messy like yoghurt or custard.
• Whenever any one falls over on the television - especially if they have a nonsensical name, like IgglePiggle, or Upsy Daisy, or ummm George W Bush Jr
• When Dad farts (hey I admit it, I find that hilarious as well - Wife apparently does not).
• When Wife farts - not that that has ever happened, she has however been known to step on a duck

See, it is the pure things in life that little kids love and that make them laugh - and they do laugh, and they do have fun and I am soooooo jealous of that fact.

A prime example was yesterday when I got to pick up Little Miss from day care. I pulled the car up next to their playground and decided just to sit and watch for a couple of minutes, and what I saw amazed me.

All these kids where running around with just having fun - actually not just having it, but completely focusing on it, being part of it, running around absolutely DETERMINED TO HAVE FUN! And boy were they, fun is their life and their reason for being and there is nothing that will get between them and fun when play equipment is nearby!

I want to just be that focused on having fun once again - maybe that’s why kids are great, because they remind us to have fun.

Oh, and as for the title of the post, I guess I best explain it. Little Miss brought home a piece of art with her yesterday, a lovely picture of a woman with big big blue eyes, it looked all the world like her mum. But apparently the picture was of a ‘Big Bum Band’, and given we know Wife doesn’t fart it obviously couldn’t have been her…….