Went to see Pops new room yesterday, it's fab! Beautiful day bed, lovely lilac walls, elephants everywhere. Not real ones obviously, pictures, cushions, curtains with elephants on, bedding with elephants on! Safe to say she's gone mad on elephants!
Poppy has lots of homework on Friday, consequence of going up into year four and getting older I suppose, though a shame to get so much homework at the age of eight. Surely at eight children should still be able to enjoy free time and play with toys or friends, or both obviously! Plenty time for homework once they hit eleven, and then they become too pressured, pushed to do well. Schools under pressure by the government, policies, targets, Ofsted in turn out kids under pressure, too much pressure. What possible need is there for sats? Never had sats in my day far as I know!
And then there is the floss. For those unaware it's a dance, one i cannot master however hard i try, my hips, arms and legs just won't move correctly no matter how I try! Kids are brilliant at it though, Poppy is great at the floss. Floss is great at the floss. Confused? Don't be, Floss is not only a dance, it's the name of a cousin of Poppy, short for Florence.
Sunday, 9 September 2018
Friday, 31 August 2018
8, but going on 18!
You may be surprised to hear that Poppy is now 8 years old!
I am sorry it has been so long to update The chronicles but I have had all sorts of problems going on in the past couple of years of so, the main one being that I broke my right arm at the elbow joint in two places and neither break has healed! At the beginning the fracture clinic only detected one break so they did not set correctly and have not aligned, leaving me in constant pain and with the prospect of either an operation to fix it which would restrict my movement or leave it as it is and live in pain!
Anyway enough about me, you want to hear about Poppy. She is such a beautiful, kind and caring girl who is so funny she makes you laugh aloud. She brightens the room just by walking through the door, as does her mum.
She goes into year four next week at school and we cannot believe where the time has gone!
Poppy has two new cousins, two fab little boys, and she has been wonderful since they came into our family. She even changed her first nappy yesterday! I would have loved to have seen that!
She goes to Brownies, still loves to craft with her grandma, we are painting stones at the moment and hiding them around the village for others to find and rehide, our venture is a great success and lots of people are joining in, kids have emerged from behind ipads and game consoles to go hunting rocks instead and get some fresh air and exercise! She has taken up the ukelele at school, is getting good at swimming, loves to make slime and has technology down to a 'T', telling grandad not to do it like that!
Poppy is a young lady to be proud of, she's just helped her mum paint the walls of her bedroom and did a great job too, she is so beautiful and we could not be more proud.
Love you Pops xxx
I am sorry it has been so long to update The chronicles but I have had all sorts of problems going on in the past couple of years of so, the main one being that I broke my right arm at the elbow joint in two places and neither break has healed! At the beginning the fracture clinic only detected one break so they did not set correctly and have not aligned, leaving me in constant pain and with the prospect of either an operation to fix it which would restrict my movement or leave it as it is and live in pain!
Anyway enough about me, you want to hear about Poppy. She is such a beautiful, kind and caring girl who is so funny she makes you laugh aloud. She brightens the room just by walking through the door, as does her mum.
She goes into year four next week at school and we cannot believe where the time has gone!
Poppy has two new cousins, two fab little boys, and she has been wonderful since they came into our family. She even changed her first nappy yesterday! I would have loved to have seen that!
She goes to Brownies, still loves to craft with her grandma, we are painting stones at the moment and hiding them around the village for others to find and rehide, our venture is a great success and lots of people are joining in, kids have emerged from behind ipads and game consoles to go hunting rocks instead and get some fresh air and exercise! She has taken up the ukelele at school, is getting good at swimming, loves to make slime and has technology down to a 'T', telling grandad not to do it like that!
Poppy is a young lady to be proud of, she's just helped her mum paint the walls of her bedroom and did a great job too, she is so beautiful and we could not be more proud.
Love you Pops xxx
Sunday, 14 June 2015
Long time no see
Goodness it's been a long time since I've written a Poppy Chronicle, I've been occupied doing other things and somewhat neglected keeping you all up to date on our Pops.
She is certainly growing up fast, too fast she's not a baby anymore I'm certain of that, she's a beautiful little girl. Her fifth birthday is fast approaching yet the past five years have flown by, time unfortunately, seems to go quicker when you're getting older!
Poppy is doing well at school, her reading is coming along nicely and she is good at phonics, in fact she was Star of the week again just a few days ago. We are so proud of her.
She is very interested in the topics at school too, the dinosaur topic went down very well, she can tell you the names of most dinosaurs, what they eat, whether they are carnivorous or a herbivore, and all kinds of information she has learnt. She is doing mini beasts at the moment and likes ladybirds though isn't very pleased when a fly or wasp is in the same room "Grandma, there's a fly on the window can you get it out please"
Poppy is hilarious, she has a way of rolling her eyes which is very comical and some of the things she says makes us laugh out loud. She often turns into her teacher when she arrives at our house, taking the register and telling us, in no uncertain terms, we are not allowed to talk! The look she gives you if you disobey is enough to make you shake with mirth and when she tells her Grandad to "sit on your bottom and stop talking please" it's enough to have us in fits!
We like to do crafts together, Poppy and I, and she seems to have caught the bug of making cards which is my latest enthusiasm. There are tiny bits of paper appearing in obscure places as she likes my shaped scissors which are blunt ended so safe for her to use under supervision. She made me a lovely bird the other day which has the words "I love Mum" on the reverse. She told me she means me but cannot spell Grandma! Bless. She then told Grandad he could share my paper bird!
We went to see Poppy in her first dance show before Christmas at the Grand theatre, it was a lovely show and the children taking part did so well, and looked so cute. A proud moment.
Last week Pops took part in her first sports day at school, she didn't win her races but enjoyed taking part and as her mummy said she looked very pretty and had a huge grin on her face the whole time. And she didn't drop the egg in the egg and spoon race either. Well done sweetheart.
And so we are approaching the end of her first year at school, the same school attended by not only her mom and dad but her uncles also, and what a lovely tradition to carry on. It's amazing how many grandparents we meet when we pick her up who are fetching their own grandchildren now, yet a few years ago we were collecting our own children together! A little bit older, a little bit wiser, but with the same love in our hearts for the children of our children.
She is certainly growing up fast, too fast she's not a baby anymore I'm certain of that, she's a beautiful little girl. Her fifth birthday is fast approaching yet the past five years have flown by, time unfortunately, seems to go quicker when you're getting older!
Poppy is doing well at school, her reading is coming along nicely and she is good at phonics, in fact she was Star of the week again just a few days ago. We are so proud of her.
Poppy is hilarious, she has a way of rolling her eyes which is very comical and some of the things she says makes us laugh out loud. She often turns into her teacher when she arrives at our house, taking the register and telling us, in no uncertain terms, we are not allowed to talk! The look she gives you if you disobey is enough to make you shake with mirth and when she tells her Grandad to "sit on your bottom and stop talking please" it's enough to have us in fits!
We like to do crafts together, Poppy and I, and she seems to have caught the bug of making cards which is my latest enthusiasm. There are tiny bits of paper appearing in obscure places as she likes my shaped scissors which are blunt ended so safe for her to use under supervision. She made me a lovely bird the other day which has the words "I love Mum" on the reverse. She told me she means me but cannot spell Grandma! Bless. She then told Grandad he could share my paper bird!
We went to see Poppy in her first dance show before Christmas at the Grand theatre, it was a lovely show and the children taking part did so well, and looked so cute. A proud moment.
Last week Pops took part in her first sports day at school, she didn't win her races but enjoyed taking part and as her mummy said she looked very pretty and had a huge grin on her face the whole time. And she didn't drop the egg in the egg and spoon race either. Well done sweetheart.
And so we are approaching the end of her first year at school, the same school attended by not only her mom and dad but her uncles also, and what a lovely tradition to carry on. It's amazing how many grandparents we meet when we pick her up who are fetching their own grandchildren now, yet a few years ago we were collecting our own children together! A little bit older, a little bit wiser, but with the same love in our hearts for the children of our children.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
The school run.
Who would have thought that about 28 years after I did the school run with my own children we would be back at the same school, even standing chatting with the same person, waiting for our granddaughter! It seems as though the clock has been turned back or we've been on a time machine or something!
She loves school does our granddaughter, she comes trotting out, hands us her book bag and sandwich box, and when you ask her what she's been doing she says "I can't remember!!"
She likes to cross with the lollipop lady, though goes all shy when we prompt "say thank you", smiling and giggling until she gets over the road.
As soon as she gets in its "can I have some pink milk, I want a sandwich, can I have some fruit?" Obviously school makes her hungry, which isn't a bad thing, and she's not asking for sweets though we do have to make sure we have melons in the house, and strawberries, grapes and bananas are also on the list, though not as high as melon, melon is definitely the favourite. By the way pink milk is milk with one of those small pots of fromage frais stirred into it, crafty, but it gets the calories into her!
Yesterday as grandad walked down to pick her up from school the heavens opened, as they always seem to at 3pm, strange but true, and he had to shelter under a tree until the last possible moment but still got soaked, despite holding the small child's umbrella above his head before she came out of school and demanded her umbrella! He must have looked really silly with a children's umbrella, might have been worth getting wet just to see it!!
He got so wet he had to completely change, he was wet through, and I mean all the way!
Then today, as we were almost home, low and behold the rain started again!
Why is it that it almost always rains when school is due to finish for the day?
She loves school does our granddaughter, she comes trotting out, hands us her book bag and sandwich box, and when you ask her what she's been doing she says "I can't remember!!"
She likes to cross with the lollipop lady, though goes all shy when we prompt "say thank you", smiling and giggling until she gets over the road.
As soon as she gets in its "can I have some pink milk, I want a sandwich, can I have some fruit?" Obviously school makes her hungry, which isn't a bad thing, and she's not asking for sweets though we do have to make sure we have melons in the house, and strawberries, grapes and bananas are also on the list, though not as high as melon, melon is definitely the favourite. By the way pink milk is milk with one of those small pots of fromage frais stirred into it, crafty, but it gets the calories into her!
Yesterday as grandad walked down to pick her up from school the heavens opened, as they always seem to at 3pm, strange but true, and he had to shelter under a tree until the last possible moment but still got soaked, despite holding the small child's umbrella above his head before she came out of school and demanded her umbrella! He must have looked really silly with a children's umbrella, might have been worth getting wet just to see it!!
He got so wet he had to completely change, he was wet through, and I mean all the way!
Then today, as we were almost home, low and behold the rain started again!
Why is it that it almost always rains when school is due to finish for the day?
Thursday, 2 October 2014
School!!!
I find it hard to believe when I say this, Poppy started school!
She's four years old, four!! Today is 3rd October, the day she was actually due, instead she was born ten weeks early on the 29th July, so you see miracles do happen. Poppy is walking proof, she is a little (cheeky) miracle. Love you Pops, happy birthday.
XXXX
I ask you where on earth did the time go? It's flown by, and gone past slowly if that makes any sense. She's grown up so fast I can hardly believe that the beautiful bright intelligent chatty little girl who stands before me today, is that oh so tiny, oh so delicate little baby who I held in my arms and handled so carefully I was afraid she might break! She's now so tall, in fact very tall for four, but then we are a tall family, and everything about her is long and slender. Long legs, little thin legs that look like they could break, long arms which are so delicate, long body, thin so her skirts and trousers often slip down, she has to have a tuck sewn into her waist bands. She is beautiful, with a cheeky smile and eyes which look at you and make your heart melt, long blonde hair just like her lovely mummy. Our little Angel, our pride and joy, she is so loved, so cared about, and she is so caring. She adores animals, dogs, rabbits, cats, horses, all kinds of animals.
She loves to play, she loves to talk, chatter chatter chatter! Unless she's tired, then you can barely get a word out of her!
She goes to dancing too, tap, ballet and acro. On a Saturday morning, with her cousins. She won't show you any of her moves though if she arrives to visit after dance with her mum. We've seen her do a forward roll, but that's about it. "No grandma, I'm too tired. I can't remember"!!
And school. Poppy loves school, apparently she has so many friends she can't remember all their names! She's been on the sunshine the past few weeks, apparently you are on the sunshine if you are good, start to slip down the rainbow if you are a bit naughty and can end up on the rain cloud! The rain cloud is obviously a disguise for the naughty step! In my day if you were naughty you were made to stand in the corner facing the wall! I can remember being told to stand in the corner aged about five though I have no idea what I did wrong and just remember feeling scared and bewildered, maybe frightening young children is not the way to do things! By Thursday Poppy is shattered when we fetch her from school. She's usually hungry as soon as she arrives so has a very early tea then might watch tv for a while to let her food digest. Yesterday she then decided to play and I think virtually every toy came out arranged all over my lounge floor! The object is to try and keep her awake as her mum and dad don't want her going to sleep at 4.30pm, it's not advisable if you want her in bed at a reasonable time! So it's operation 'keep Poppy occupied'!! Going to bed late only results in a very tired Poppy next day which then makes the situation worse and is then on going!
Poppy tired = grumpy Pops.
Poppy awake and alert = happy, chatty Pops.
She's four years old, four!! Today is 3rd October, the day she was actually due, instead she was born ten weeks early on the 29th July, so you see miracles do happen. Poppy is walking proof, she is a little (cheeky) miracle. Love you Pops, happy birthday.
XXXX
I ask you where on earth did the time go? It's flown by, and gone past slowly if that makes any sense. She's grown up so fast I can hardly believe that the beautiful bright intelligent chatty little girl who stands before me today, is that oh so tiny, oh so delicate little baby who I held in my arms and handled so carefully I was afraid she might break! She's now so tall, in fact very tall for four, but then we are a tall family, and everything about her is long and slender. Long legs, little thin legs that look like they could break, long arms which are so delicate, long body, thin so her skirts and trousers often slip down, she has to have a tuck sewn into her waist bands. She is beautiful, with a cheeky smile and eyes which look at you and make your heart melt, long blonde hair just like her lovely mummy. Our little Angel, our pride and joy, she is so loved, so cared about, and she is so caring. She adores animals, dogs, rabbits, cats, horses, all kinds of animals.
She loves to play, she loves to talk, chatter chatter chatter! Unless she's tired, then you can barely get a word out of her!
She goes to dancing too, tap, ballet and acro. On a Saturday morning, with her cousins. She won't show you any of her moves though if she arrives to visit after dance with her mum. We've seen her do a forward roll, but that's about it. "No grandma, I'm too tired. I can't remember"!!
And school. Poppy loves school, apparently she has so many friends she can't remember all their names! She's been on the sunshine the past few weeks, apparently you are on the sunshine if you are good, start to slip down the rainbow if you are a bit naughty and can end up on the rain cloud! The rain cloud is obviously a disguise for the naughty step! In my day if you were naughty you were made to stand in the corner facing the wall! I can remember being told to stand in the corner aged about five though I have no idea what I did wrong and just remember feeling scared and bewildered, maybe frightening young children is not the way to do things! By Thursday Poppy is shattered when we fetch her from school. She's usually hungry as soon as she arrives so has a very early tea then might watch tv for a while to let her food digest. Yesterday she then decided to play and I think virtually every toy came out arranged all over my lounge floor! The object is to try and keep her awake as her mum and dad don't want her going to sleep at 4.30pm, it's not advisable if you want her in bed at a reasonable time! So it's operation 'keep Poppy occupied'!! Going to bed late only results in a very tired Poppy next day which then makes the situation worse and is then on going!
Poppy tired = grumpy Pops.
Poppy awake and alert = happy, chatty Pops.
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Been a while!
I know, I know, it's been ages since I wrote the Poppy chronicles. I seem to have been really caught up with other things, and not found time or the motivation to write. Unlike me though it is not to write, I lost my mojo, lost my love of writing, something which has been life long and now I'm attempting to get my mojo back!
Poppy has started attending nursery every morning, she finishes nursery at noon then she comes to visit grandma for the afternoon. Grandad works in the building the nursery is housed so he picks her up and drops her off to me, it's only a few minutes from our house, and then he returns to work until his finishing time of 2.30. Poppy has lunch with me then we find something to keep occupied until grandads return when, weather permitting, we walk the dogs in the woods with Poppy looking for butterflies, squirrels, fairies, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo, or whichever game she wants to play on our walk. I say walk but to be honest I can no longer walk far at all, in fact I've not been able to walk far for a long while now, so I use a mobility scooter these days, out of necessity. I didn't want to, I fought against it for a long time, but then came to the conclusion that I could either stop in the house a lot while grandad, Poppy and the dogs have fun, or I could bite the bullet and give in! I can honestly say it's changed my life, now I can get out, go through the woods, thankfully the paths are usually quite good, except if the rain has been particularly prolonged and heavy causing a fair bit of mud! I can get to the shops, library, park, go round the lakes, I have regained independence, and wish I had done it sooner. I refused to use a scooter for years because I thought someone had laughed at me and my confidence was shot. I stopped in the house a lot of the time, only going out if someone took me in the car, that's not living! I'm glad I can now get out and join in with the world.
Poppy has grown up with me using my scooter and it doesn't bother her a bit, in fact she loves to hitch a ride with me, we sometimes find we are riding a horse, at times we hide from grandad behind a tree, we hunt for butterflies, squirrels and fairies, we have fun!
I can't get down on the floor to play with Poppy, I would never get up, but we adapt and do puzzles, draw and paint, read books, play with her dolls, all kinds of things, and she is so good, she realises I can't run around chasing her, can't throw her about and do the rough and tumble play, but we occupy ourselves and grandad and especially daddy are very good at all the more physical games! Daddy is very good at holding her upside down which she finds hilarious!
Poppy has mostly grown out of her afternoon naps, I say mostly but on the odd occasion she drops off for an hour like she has this afternoon, hence giving me a little time to write this! I must admit her not having her naps has made it a little harder for me and I'm sometimes struggling at the end of the day, only because of my physical difficulties, not because she is any problem to look after, she's very good. She's woken up now and asking for a drink and biscuit so I had best go and see she's OK.
I shall try and keep up to date a bit more often from now on!
Poppy has started attending nursery every morning, she finishes nursery at noon then she comes to visit grandma for the afternoon. Grandad works in the building the nursery is housed so he picks her up and drops her off to me, it's only a few minutes from our house, and then he returns to work until his finishing time of 2.30. Poppy has lunch with me then we find something to keep occupied until grandads return when, weather permitting, we walk the dogs in the woods with Poppy looking for butterflies, squirrels, fairies, the big bad wolf, the Gruffalo, or whichever game she wants to play on our walk. I say walk but to be honest I can no longer walk far at all, in fact I've not been able to walk far for a long while now, so I use a mobility scooter these days, out of necessity. I didn't want to, I fought against it for a long time, but then came to the conclusion that I could either stop in the house a lot while grandad, Poppy and the dogs have fun, or I could bite the bullet and give in! I can honestly say it's changed my life, now I can get out, go through the woods, thankfully the paths are usually quite good, except if the rain has been particularly prolonged and heavy causing a fair bit of mud! I can get to the shops, library, park, go round the lakes, I have regained independence, and wish I had done it sooner. I refused to use a scooter for years because I thought someone had laughed at me and my confidence was shot. I stopped in the house a lot of the time, only going out if someone took me in the car, that's not living! I'm glad I can now get out and join in with the world.
Poppy has grown up with me using my scooter and it doesn't bother her a bit, in fact she loves to hitch a ride with me, we sometimes find we are riding a horse, at times we hide from grandad behind a tree, we hunt for butterflies, squirrels and fairies, we have fun!
I can't get down on the floor to play with Poppy, I would never get up, but we adapt and do puzzles, draw and paint, read books, play with her dolls, all kinds of things, and she is so good, she realises I can't run around chasing her, can't throw her about and do the rough and tumble play, but we occupy ourselves and grandad and especially daddy are very good at all the more physical games! Daddy is very good at holding her upside down which she finds hilarious!
Poppy has mostly grown out of her afternoon naps, I say mostly but on the odd occasion she drops off for an hour like she has this afternoon, hence giving me a little time to write this! I must admit her not having her naps has made it a little harder for me and I'm sometimes struggling at the end of the day, only because of my physical difficulties, not because she is any problem to look after, she's very good. She's woken up now and asking for a drink and biscuit so I had best go and see she's OK.
I shall try and keep up to date a bit more often from now on!
Friday, 28 June 2013
Growing up and going to Rubys birthday tea.
Poppy seems to be growing up so fast, she has turned into a little girl before our very eyes, she never stops talking, will only wear what she wants to wear, likes to choose what style she will wear her hair, loves to have her nails painted, loves pink and when I was putting her coat on yesterday for Grandad to take her home in the car to her Daddy she told me she could go home on her own! As she is still 2 years old, and will be 3 at the end of next month, she is no longer a baby and is growing up just that bit too fast!
She has three party invitations and has told her Mummy she is having a party for her birthday, I`m not sure Mummy was planning to have one, but Poppy is quite determined! Looks like I shall have to get my cake decorating books out again!
Grandad was well and truly told off yesterday when he burped, Poppy looked at me, then at Grandad and said "Grandad, you burped, that's disgusting!" Well that's you told Grandad!
She loves playing with her dolls house, two of the dolls who live in it are called Poppy and Ruby, Poppy, ofcourse, has to be Poppy and I have to be Ruby. Grandad is not allowed to be anybody because he is a boy! Oh and apparently boys don`t like bananas!
Ruby is Poppys cousin, and she tells me that every time I see her, she loves Ruby and Florence. She will be so excited today as she is going to a tea party for Rubys birthday later on this afternoon. Hope Ruby has a lovely birthday, and all the children enjoy the tea party. xx
She has three party invitations and has told her Mummy she is having a party for her birthday, I`m not sure Mummy was planning to have one, but Poppy is quite determined! Looks like I shall have to get my cake decorating books out again!
Grandad was well and truly told off yesterday when he burped, Poppy looked at me, then at Grandad and said "Grandad, you burped, that's disgusting!" Well that's you told Grandad!
She loves playing with her dolls house, two of the dolls who live in it are called Poppy and Ruby, Poppy, ofcourse, has to be Poppy and I have to be Ruby. Grandad is not allowed to be anybody because he is a boy! Oh and apparently boys don`t like bananas!
Ruby is Poppys cousin, and she tells me that every time I see her, she loves Ruby and Florence. She will be so excited today as she is going to a tea party for Rubys birthday later on this afternoon. Hope Ruby has a lovely birthday, and all the children enjoy the tea party. xx
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