Orange baby.

Poppy arrived at ten past seven this morning, Emma wanted to be at school early because Ofsted was expected and she wanted to make sure everything was in order before they arrived. She has worked all weekend to get ready for the visit, she even went in on Saturday, yesterday she did not arrive home until 7pm and again today she did not get back from work until 7pm. Poppy was getting tired, she usually goes to bed between 7 and 8 oclock so we rang Lee to see if he was home from work and took her home to Daddy. I was worn out, she is on the go all the time and I had looked after her for almost 12 hours today! Thankfully Ofsted will have finished their visit tomorrow so Emma should not be late tomorrow night, though she has asked if she can bring Poppy again early tomorrow so it will be another long day for me.

Poppy is enjoying playing with her new babywalker, she walks across the room with it until she reaches one sofa, stops and gives herself a clap, looking round at us to make sure we are clapping her too. She then turns around and walks back to the other side of the room, until she reaches the other sofa, stops and claps herself again! God knows how many times she has done this today, its been backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards! She was enjoying herself so much she has barely played with anything else, she has been in the ball pool a couple of times and got a couple of toys out of her box, but for the majority of the time she has been practicing her walking! She is getting to be quite steady on her feet now, when she takes her hands off the walker to clap she stands for quite some time on her own before she realises she is not holding on, then she wobbles about and makes a grab for the handle before she falls over. Once she has the balance thing sorted out she will soon be off walking, she certainly isn`t lacking the confidence!!

For her tea today I made Poppy fish fingers, home made chips and ravioli, she did really well at feeding herself though did have a bit of a fight with the ravioli, at one point dropping a bit on her tray and leaning her elbow in it. One orange baby! She noticed Grandad eating a yogurt and decided she fancied his yogurt much more than her own, so would not eat the petite filous he was trying to feed her! She ended up eating most of Grandads yogurt instead, I have discovered that Poppy wants to eat whatever I am eating, or for that matter whatever anybody else is eating! Or drinking! You cannot enter a room holding a glass of water without Poppy trying to wrestle it off you!