Over the last little while Grace has really become a helpful and useful little helper. We will ask her to do something (like fetch a tissue for Eli) and she will often (not always) pause, say, “Okay,” and then toddle off to execute her task.

She is even able to independently help clean up the house at the end of the day, packing away her toys, or whatever it is that she has been allocated. It doesn’t necessarily happen at the pace we want, or on the schedule that we have, but it does happen (amongst the singing, dancing and playing with the things she needs to pack away).

And just in case it isn’t clear: we still have plenty of moaning, complaining about being “too tired” to do something, and so on, it is just that she is generally more willing and more helpful, which is great.