unthoroughly thought half-way through

Whilst it has become usual for the wingpiglet to request one or more cuddly toys to swamp himself with during the reading-to-sleep process he usually doesn't insist on dragging them downstairs for breakfast, though sometimes presents the monkey for inspection when he's retrieved from his cot. Today both these were quite firmly held on to throughout the taking-downstairs, filling-bowl, adding-milk, finding-spoon and stuffing-into-high-chair processes, only gradually being relinquished when it became obvious even to him that he wasn't going to get many Weetabices eaten with them in the way.