Moments to savour

It's going to be a real pity when Alice starts talking properly. I remember this with my younger sisters - desperately hanging onto their last baby words until they really were too old to say "strawbaddies" with any semblance of dignity.


Continuing the fruity theme, our current fave with Alice is "blueberries" or "boobies", as she says. She is not discouraged in this and one or other parent is usually to be seen surreptitiously giggling at such moments. There was a moment of considerable confusion when she was demanding a handful of these little purple bubbles of loveliness last week, and Little Friend Charlie, who has recently become a big brother, insisted that they were "only for babies".