A few favourites.

Well, he's been coming out with them thick and fast recently, so here are a few comments from the last couple of days that I particularly enjoyed.

"Night night Henrietta", as we were locking the ride-on mower safely into the metal container it lives in. I was a bit confused about the name, as he'd christened the mower Bessie the day before. This afternoon, as we went out to do some more gardening, Joshua said, "we've got to be quiet, because Bessie is tired and will be sleeping."

"This is the best game I've played ever." Sounds very sweet, but considering he was, at the time, sat on the hall floor playing with the multiswitch for the Christmas lights, it was actually a little bit sad. In fact, when we had to go out, he reassured himself by saying, "yes, I can finish this game later."

"Daddy, daddy, daddy (shouted in a sort of emergency-related tone) there are THREE on." He was referring to the number of episodes of Bob the Builder that were on the telly. "There were two, and now another one has come on, so there are three on Daddy." Wow, I wish I could get so excited about such things. As it happens, I think he'd counted incorrectly, but I won't mention it...