Today Lex was desperate for someone to play a card game with him. He wasn’t clear on which game, just that it should involve ’32 cards and 2 jokers mummy’ (still gets 3s and 5s mixed up). After much gnashing of teeth as R was busy and I had a sleeping Eli on my lap and thus no ability to lean forward, he settled on a memory game matching suits not numbers. He was happy to play for both of us though in the final count he won by a card…

My favourite bit came when he confuddled me slightly by going on about the leprechaun cards ‘you know like their leaves’.