Liam snickered behind his hand when Aunty Lettie said that she could help fix the blue spot.
He knew Mummy would come soon, and Liam looked around the Manor as he waited to see which direction she would pop in from. It was always a fun game to play.
At the top of the stairs, he pointed to his room, still grinning when she said she could play as he painted. "You can play princesses, like Ella, but 'choo would have to owl and ask her if you could wear her tiara -- do you have your own tiara?" He was now full of questions, and no longer bored.
He raced across his room, pulling his box of paints and crayons out of the toy chest and presenting them to Lettie. As he turned and looked up, he saw Mummy floating behind Lettie. "Mummy!" he shouted. "Lettie's going to be my aunty, but she's not my new mummy. So that's not Daphee and not Lettie and now we're going to do some drawings!" He was so excited, all the words tumbled out of his mouth at once,