Max ...

..slept with us last night. I am not good at teaching children to sleep in their own beds - I think Roger would be better if left to his own devices - at least he would try harder.

He would have turfed Max out last night - but that is only because he didn't have the conversation I had with Max before Roger came to bed.

It seems that Max would like four kids - or at least he definitely wants an even number. Two boys (named Wolf and Fox) and two girls (Pheasant and Finch). It would be weird to call your kids some animal names - like Dog or Horse. Wolf should be the oldest because that way if Max dies there will still be a priesthood holder in the family.

They will have a cool house too - there will be scaffolding around the roof so that you can play on the roof - which will be flat and there will be rope ladders coming off the roof that finish about 2 metres above a foam pit so you can jump into it. Except that when Wolf and Fox and Pheasant and Finch are little they'll make the rope ladder longer.

Also Max is going to make sure that there is always work to do at the house so that the kids learn to work.

If Roger had been there for that conversation he would have tucked him up in bed with us too.

And to top it all off Max saw a snake on the road when he was on the way up to see Robert and Samuel - they weren't home so he ran down to Granny's and phoned us in tears to come get him - but it was ok because Granny gave him Tiny Teddy's while he waited. He broke into tears when he saw me again. It was very traumatic.

He absolutely needed to sleep with us last night. And that's why I am not very good at teaching children to sleep in their own beds.