Booklover!

At Liam's daycare after the morning pit time, kids can choose to either stay for more stories or go outside to play. Their names are called and they can say either "stay" for more stories or "go" for going outside. When Liam's teacher was telling us about his, there wasn't a doubt in our minds that he would be in the "stay" group for more stories, because he will tell you: "You know, I really love stories!" and his favourite place in the neighbourhood is definitely the library and he will pretty much throw a tantrum if you don't read two chapters with him at bedtime ("Mama, we always read TWO chapters!"). So, we knew he would be in the "stay" group, but were not expecting the cuteness of him saying: "booklover" :)

We are now reading the "Faraway Tree" again for the fourth (!) time. It is his (and my) favourite bedtime book. When we got the book, we read it three consecutive times, then we went on adventures on the "Wishing Chair" and visited the "Land of Og" and had a brief excursion to the "Magic Treehouse" ("Mama, that was a very short book"), but now we are happily back to the Faraway Tree. I already look forward to the Angry Pixie, Mister Whatshisname, Dame Washalot and of course Silky, Moonface and the Saucepan Man (or Sauceman Pan as Liam calls him). 

In the morning when Liam crawls in our bed, he pretends that it is the Faraway Tree, Mama is Silky, Daddy is Moonface, Anouk is either the angry pixie or the red squirrel depending on whether she's crying or not, and Liam is Joe, coming to visit. He slips down under the covers to the foot of the bed, down the Slippery Slip, and then it's breakfast time.

It's really wonderful that Liam has all this magic in his life. Last night he was playing with his animals in bed and T-Rex ate up all the animals, except for the little bunny, so the two of them got married, and luckily his old fried Abu is magical and can get everybody who's been eaten by T-Rex out again - safe and sound. Then everybody get tucked in and with Balu the Dragon and Abu tightly in his arms, it's time to got to sleep...