"Once upon a time there was a witch called Barry"....

was how I was woken up this morning by The Child who gave me a lie-in until 8.41am (hurray!) and then sat next to me 'reading' me stories until I felt human enough to get up. She only currently can recognise about 15 or so words but she can remember quite a lot of her favourite stories, almost verbatim in some cases...and of course she uses her imagination to fill in the gaps. This mornings' example was a leaflet about things to do in Essex that she had found on the floor and was very enamoured with. She is much better this morning and nighttime potty training seems to have 100% worked, we started one week ago and have had only two wet mornings on Wed and Fri, even when she wasnt well she managed to hold on. Really pleased as it saves a fortune on nappies etc.

I got my post brought to me in bed this morning by The Child (who in some ways is very much like a little dog!) who then took the rubbish downstairs to the recycling bin before stripping off her pyjamas and getting clean pants. She also managed to dress herself again (pink longsleeved top and cotton skirt which matched!) all by herself which I was very pleased about. Wont be long before she can do more household tasks (She is 3.4 years old so a while before we can expect cups of tea in bed though!).

She opened my parcel for me which turned out to be a Bookmooch book:

Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey - I havent been very impressed by these 'Once upon a time' retellings and have passed the majority of them on on Bookmooch. This one is based on Sleeping Beauty and came all the way from Australia. Fingers crossed this one is better!