Before my daughter started reception I put her on the waiting lists for Rainbows and swimming lessons as both are hugely oversubscribed in my area and I vaguely thought she might want to do them at some point.
Then after she joined reception and I hadn't heard from either I signed her up to a ballet class. She loves this and when we arrive at class she sees the previous group doing gymnastics and has been begging me to go to that too, so I said she could do it in YR 1 (thinking 2 classes in YR 1 sounded reasonable, and they do discounts for doing both classes). Then my DH started volunteering at the local kids football club and takes DD to that too and it's not really her thing but she's made some close friends that also go. Then I got the call for swimming and I said yes because it's an important skill, and DD wanted to do a free after school computer club and it's straight after school on a day the timing for pickup was tight so it just makes everything easier, and now Rainbows have offered her a place starting next week...
And how on earth did I get to this place where my 5 year old does 5 after school activities and wants to do 6? It's complete madness, isn't it? But I can't seem to work out any of it we can drop without feeling really mean. The thought of what we do when her siblings are all old enough to want to do all the things too fills me with fear!!