I think Anne’s starting to feel insecure in her position as The Boss. She insists on sleeping with me every night, and Neil has been consigned to sleeping in her bed (she has a double, it’s not exactly a hardship). I like to read before going to sleep, it’s the way I wind down — assuming the book isn’t too exciting — and Anne usually asks me to read to her as well. Lately she’s started picking up another book I’ve left on my bedside table and ‘reading’ with me.

As Neil commented right before he took this photo, it might be more convincing if she held the book the right way up.

(She’s thumbing through The People’s Act of Love by James Meek, I’m reading The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer.)