4:30 is a great time at our house.

Everyone has rested.

Daddy will be home in about an hour and a half.

Dinner gets started.

And..... The Banana Splits Show comes on.

In case you aren't familiar with the show, it is a television program that originally aired in 1971 and has totally captured my children's attention. It is and odd show. The first half entertains with a cartoon version of The Three Musketeers or Arabian Nights. The second half is entitled Danger Island- a non-cartoon family stranded on an island as they try to escape from the savage natives and ruthless pirates. In between are brief vignettes of a costumed dog, elephant, monkey, and lion telling knock-knock jokes and playing musical instruments. I imagine this show to be somewhat of a child's version of Laugh In. It is a little psychedelic, perhaps created by people on mind altering drugs, and a tad bit weird. But my children love it- they absolutely love it. I'm not sure why the fascination- but they are hooked. And so am I- I can get alot done in this thirty minute time period, not to mention the theme song is kinda catchy.

Even Eden gets drawn under its spell every once and a while.