Birds and the Bees. Doggy style.

(lying on the edge of my 4 yo’s bed at 6.45pm on a summer evening, trying to encourage him to go to sleep)

Charlie (4): How do you make a dog ?

Me (39): Well, a mummy dog and a daddy dog that love each other …. (Charlie interupts)

Charlie (moving his hands up towards the wall): I can’t make it look like a dog.

Me: *phew*

(I was doing dog shadow puppets with a torch, and again at the cinema the other week. He keeps trying to replicate me.)