After not eating anything since the night before and spending much of the day at home sleeping through a raging fever, I managed, with the assistance of Dino, to get Sophia to have a little yoghurt. She loves sharing her food, and happily proffers spoonfuls of whatever she is eating to whichever toy is sharing her dinner table, whilst making the sweetest little pretend munching sounds. I think Dino wore more yoghurt than she ate, but at least she took a little food and water in. Particularly when she decided that Dino's head would make a fab spoon and started using him to scoop the yoghurt out of the pot with. Spoons? Where we're going, we don't need, spoons. Ten points for naming the movie that line is appropriated from...

I worked from home as much as I could today while Sophs slept, I have 6 working days left and quite a lot to do. I had an online training session scheduled to be delivered via a headset/microphone in an online classroom which Sophia thought she'd come and sit on my lap for, and concur loudly with everything I was saying with a sweet babyish sounding 'yesth' and definite nod of the head. In one part of my training I display a cartoon tiger and ask participants to use various tools to colour it in and decorate it - when the tiger appeared on screen Sophia started doing her generic tiger/lion roar whilst sitting about 10 cm away from my microphone. I had prewarned the participants that they might have an unexpected additional little trainer during the session, but hadn't quite expected such an active contribution! Towards the end of the session the participants were treated to a rendition of Iggle Piggle's song from In the Night Garden, and at the conclusion they were farewelled with a loud 'bye-byyye' and waving at the screen. I'm not sure Sophia will be hired for her training skills, but I hope she brought a touch of levity to the training sessions (not sure I'll include the roaring in my future sessions though...)