In the morning we’ll go to the pantry so that Brinley can choose between all the lined-up cereals. We’ll go through each one, say “This one?” and she’ll shake her head until we find the one she wants. “Daff ‘un.”

Sometimes when we put Brinley in the car she’ll want to play in the backseat for a bit. So she’ll look at us and say, “A minute.”

Brin is obsessed with dinosaurs now, and when referring to them she calls them “soo”. Mommy Soo and Daddy Soo are ones she often looks for in books.