Childminder.

Grandad is now Gangan and I was called Gamma yesterday! Bless, Poppy is learning to talk! So sweet, her words are getting more and more recognisable and she even tries to sing, "yeah, yeah, yeah!!"

We bought her a new toy, it has four small different coloured balls on the top and you bash them with a plastic blue hammer until they pop through the holes and slide out of the bottom ramp. Poppy likes to do it her way, you give her the hammer and she holds it in one hand while she pushes the balls through the holes with the other!! She then turns round and bangs anything else but the toy with the hammer! She certainly likes to make up her own mind!

A neighbour with her two children came over for a drink yesterday and Poppy had a lovely time playing with Harry and Georgia, aged 7 and 10 respectively. They were very good with her, building towers with her bricks for her to knock over and bouncing her ball for her, which she thinks is the funniest thing! Georgia even fed Poppy with her dinner, and she sat and ate it all up which Georgia thought was the best! She is starting with a child minder when her Mummy goes back to work the week after next, when they went to meet the childminder Poppy immediately crawled off to the explore the house and see what toys were available to play with, there are other children who she will be able to see, so I think she will have a lovely time. Her Mummy was a bit worried as to how she will settle in, especially after her recent spell in hospital when she could not bear to leave her, but after her visit she thinks it will be a good thing for Poppy to have other children to play with and to learn to share, she will also be taken on outings to playgroups and the like which will be to her benefit.