Insy winsy spider

These days we wake up to singing, really cute singing. If we stay in bed and keep listening sometimes we hear a whole song cycle, followed by something like "ummm, and what else is there? oh: TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR ..." and so on. It's a great way to wake up. My favourite is still "the Ninas on the bus say 'I love Mummy' " but that's a bit rare. The other day, though, I got: "The insy winsy spider ran up the water spout; down came the rain and washed the spider out. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Down came the rain and washed the spider out .." whose tune morphed into twinkle twinkle about half way through. 
   A couple of days later, it so happened that the sun came out. Nina got SO excited: "Look Mummy the SUN! It's the SUN! Mummy!!! The SUUUNNNNNNN!". I guess as far as she's seen, for ages now, well: down came the rain and ...  
Today she's sick and I'm not sure what with. It happened about 10 minutes before I got to nursery to pick her up. I got there and she was clinging to one of the women and coughing and rubbing her tired little eyes. We got home and she clung to me and coughed and rubbed her eyes and said her bum hurt. We had Tesco naan with peanut butter (me) and jam (her) eventually. You know you're having a rough time when scrambled eggs are beyond your logistical capability. (Tesco naan is actually really great: soft, nicely flavoured... ) She fell asleep really easily, finally, but she's whining and crying in her sleep. It's sad. And I don't know what's wrong or how serious it is, which is hard. 
  In other news, Nina's got a toy baby. It's realistic-looking, enough that it can really startle you if you come upon it suddenly. Anyway, the baby spits. Well, not really, but in Nina's world it does. And when it spits, Nina tells it that if it spits again it will get a time out. She looks at it very seriously in the eyes. Then she says "ok, you're going to have a time out". She is delighted with herself. The baby sits in the corner and Nina says "stay there until I get you" and then she goes back and says "are you ready to say sorry?" and then the baby comes up to me and she very earnestly tells me that it has said sorry. All of this repeats. Indefinitely. Up to 40 times. It's hilarious. I asked her why she thinks the baby wants to spit so much. She grinned, and said "spitting is really funny". I gather that it's rather a struggle for her not to spit, and she's doing really well. 
   yet more news, such as it is: Got a paper rejected, which really sucks as it's with a student and it's been a long journey for this work. Got good reviews of another grant proposal, which is great. Teaching starts next week - not so great, as what with being 32 weeks pregnant now I'm still concerned about passing out, and standing and talking is awkward. Well, that's the update. I hope to put some videos up here soon but can't be bothered right now. This inner baby that I've got is tiring, extremely active, and it's very distracting! And easily visible from across a room.