Toddler dreams

“Get into bed with Mommy?” Poppy asks when I go in to wake her. She requests this most mornings.

I crawl into bed next to her and ask her the usual. “How did you sleep? Did you have sweet dreams?”

She giggles. Then she says:

Did you see that silly Baby Bear? Baby Bear was flying! He was flying to Bert. Bert was so close! That silly Baby Bear was upside-down and down.

Exterminate! And then we'll have a spot of tea.

My dear husband, Nerdly McNerdilson, was showing me a few things that he’d like from the BBC America Shop. One of them was a remote control Dalek (“Unleash terror in all directions with this deluxe machine mutant!”). In the sidebar, BBC America offered a few other items the average “Doctor Who” fan might enjoy.

Apparently, the average “Doctor Who” fan is a pretty, pretty princess.

Behold:

Dalek

That’s right. It seems the Daleks will be inviting us to tea, with this “charming pink gingham play set.”