BTDT :-) It's great that she'll amuse herself when she can see you're busy - now it's time to add a "mummy needs some peace and quiet" mode. Maybe a visual signal of that?
It does get better, at least IME. At nearly 7, DS still has a mode where he talks continuously, but isn't in that mode ALL DAY as seemed to be the case when he was 4. (With hindsight, there were always times even then when he wasn't in that mode, e.g. when engrossed in a book - but I do remember the nursery staff asking whether he *ever* stopped talking.) What I still find infuriating is that he doesn't seem able to talk and do something else at the same time, so when he's supposed to be getting dressed he'll be talking instead. I wouldn't mind if he'd do both at the same time!
