Liam was smug when Daphee said he must be good at talking. He turned to Nigel and started babbling. "Come on, you can say it. Say Lee-umm. He giggled when Nigel just said more meaningless babble.
"Say Mummee." he added, before chanting off a string of words before Nigel could barely get a breath in. of course, it didn't help that his mouth was half filled with egg and toast.
But he was paying rapt attention when she told him about babies and mummies and daddies and magic. "That's what 'Cent told me," he said, a little disappointed that nobody would explain more about this magic.
"But I go to school now, and Fleer says we have to ask our Mummies and Daddies!"
He was a little frustrated at the brick wall he was facing, and tried not to let it get to him. "So will Daddy find a new mummy and I can have a baby brother?" he asked, hoping that at least she could answer that question for him.
He drank his glass of milk, batting his eyelashes at her and hoping that she would answer his question.