Willow has decided it's time to have a chat.

She learnt to crawl the other day and has decided that 1.33am is the ideal time to remind me of that.

I'm hoping that somehow, in the dark, she'll think I'm asleep and that it's best she goes back to sleep too.

But no.

She knows.

She knows that I'll now be awake for an hour, thinking about what to cook for dinner tomorrow, what colour the feature walls in our new unit should be, and of course, what killed Michael Jackson.

There's a line from my favourite movie, Napoleon Dynamite, in which the lead star tells his friend Pedro, ''girls like guys with good skills''.

Well 'good skills' is the reason why Willow is awake.

See, when a baby learns something new, like using a spoon, crawling or algebra, he or she is so eager to show off that skill that it does not matter what time of day it is.

This can be very frustrating for parents whose baby has finally learnt to sleep through the night.

The experts assure me that this night waking is a phase and will pass.

Dark under-eye circles however, well, that's another thing.