It's 4:00 and Eloïse walks into our bedroom.
"Mummy, I can't sleep, I keep thinking about all these people swept out to sea and it's so saaad."
After swallowing up my initial idea of waking up Bastiaan to reap what he sowed, I decided to just take a leaf from the Internet. What do we do when we're depressed? Why, look at pictures of cute puppies of course.
And while I didn't find pics of Loki as a puppy, Nicolas as a baby did the trick.
Ellie did try to milk it one last time by asking to sleep in our bed.
The beginning of two Tadpoles' lives
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