Sugar 'n' Spice and Everything Nice

Beth has been an angel the past 2 days.

Yest, she offered to help me in the kitchen when I was putting together a fruit 'n' cream cheese pie for a family dinner.

"You need anything, you just tell me, ok Mummy?"

She helped pluck champagne grapes off stems (and proclaimed after 5 mins that her legs were "scrumpy" and tired).
She helped hand-mix the cream cheese and condensed milk, to the accompaniment of suspicious slurping sounds every 5 mins. (When I asked if she was "stealing" the cream cheese, she stoutly defended herself: "It's at the side of the bowl!")

During dinner, she pulled my ear towards her so she could whisper urgently into it. Apparently, she didn't want to share a tidbit with Daddy because "you are not supposed to share food; it has got other people's saliva on it". I laughed till I turned red.

And during the family photo shoot, she perched on the back of the sofa behind me and wrapped her arms around me.

This afternoon she did something cheeky which she's tried recently (since knowing I'm pregnant): manoeuvring herself into nursing position and pretending to suck! You knew she was having fun from the uncontrollable giggles.

Just wish she would get over the horrid coughing fits SOON. She seems to come down with something or other every month.

Update
Beth got over the worst of the coughing and sniffles in 3 days - a record! PTL.