Wassup wit Numberjacks?

After a hectic day celebrating my daughters 6th Birthday yesterday 18 Dec 2009, this morning was an atypical lazy one. Mumma was sleeping in, the kids were watching Kidzone whilst Dada (me) prepared breakfast. Hang-on, that sounds like everyday. In any case, great squeals of delight were released when Kane (Kidzone host) announced the Numberjacks were about to start.

For the uninitiated:

The Numberjacks are animated characters - the numbers zero to nine - who live in an ordinary sofa and solve problems outside. In response to a problem that arises one or two of the Numberjacks will go out into the real world to solve the problem, while the remaining Numberjacks stay in their base and watch their progress on a screen.

I love the 'evil' characters:

The Problem Blob spits out lumps of green slime that cause anything they touch to suffer from a particular problem.

The Shape Japer causes problems by changing the shape or size of objects.

The Puzzler traps the Numberjacks inside a puzzle bubble or causes other problems and sets mathematical puzzles that must be solved before the problems will go away. He is arguably the most fearsome enemy of the Numberjacks, as any Numberjack unable to solve one of his puzzles would be trapped in a puzzle bubble for all eternity.

The Spooky Spoon mixes things up, which the Numberjacks have to sort out.

The Numbertaker is a white-coated live action man with an exaggerated top hat who removes numbers or numbers of things. As numbers themselves, the Numberjacks must be particularly careful when dealing with him. He uses a number sucker upper, a number grabber, a net, a magnet and a hook to take things. My personal favoutite :)

So back to my story:

My now 6 year old daughter annouces, "I'm the yellow 6, not the number 5 anymore" They grow up so fast, soon she'll be the red 7 *sniffs*

I'm Pink and Blue...what colours are you?