"Daddy, daddy." It is the usual morning call, but something was amiss this morning. Grace had turned her light on and was calling for me, but looking at the clock, 4am is a little bit early to start the day, especially for a little girl who had a fever the night before (and was still feeling a bit warm). "Grace it's still sleep time." Turn off the light, back to bed. By the third round of this I ended up lying with her which kept her quiet but she never really went back to sleep.

It all started with a glow in the dark egg. Grace got some glow in the dark eggs after Easter, and one of them lay on the bookshelf next to her bed for a while. One night I decided it would be a good idea to turn off all the lights so that we could see how much light one of the eggs gave off – I thought we could use it as a kind-of torch so that Grace could easily find her night light to turn it on.

I'm not sure exactly what I said, but Donné says to me, "Don't put ideas into her head." Grace then starts crying and says, "No daddy! Don't put ideas in my head!"

Grace has decided that her little brother's name should be Nick. It started out as the name rhyme, "Duncan wuncan nicken nucken far fo fumba luncken, that's the way we spell Duncan." She would often walk around just saying, "Nicken, nicken, nicken…" and somehow that lead to her decided that little brother should be Nick.

There is a "Tick-tock time machine" in one of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes which results in the gang being turned into babies.

Grace and I went for a walk through the aquarium after meeting Donné's family for breakfast this weekend. For me it was a really wonderful time that we had together this morning. We calmly walked through the Waterfront, onto the aquarium and then through the aquarium. As we walked we chatted and I talked about things as we went along. The time together reminded me about what I lose when I work the way I have been working.

First words this morning? "It's Friday!"

There has been build up, counting down of the number of sleeps, excitement, happiness, singing, dancing, jumping and general merriment. Tomorrow is Grace's birthday and she is excited. She is even walking around singing, "Friday, Friday."