I wish everybody would use reigns for their toddler.

As its Friday today Poppy is at the childminders and I hope she is having a lovely time. Grandma is glad of a rest, she has been hyperbaby this week, climbing on everything in sight, she even climbed over the arm of the sofa the other day and when I turned around she was sitting on the table! Little monkey!!

We went out and bought her some reigns yesterday, it won`t be long before she can walk, I think it is partly that she can get to where she wants to go quicker when she crawls and that she needs a little bit more confidence to give walking a try! She has apparently taken a couple of steps with her Daddy before now, and I saw her take a step towards Mommy a few days back, she will do it when she is ready. I thought that at least if I have some reigns ready I will be able to pop to my friends a few doors away or next door for a visit which is not the easiest thing for me to do at the moment, I cannot carry her very far now, she is too heavy for me and my back goes into spasm so to go anywhere at all, whether it be just a few yards away, I have to take her in the pushchair which can be a pain as by the time I have got it unfolded, put Poppy in it, got it out of the front door and walked to where I want to go I am done in so I tend to stay in my own house and ask everybody to visit me rather than go to all that trouble, it is just easier. Maybe it will be just as difficult when she is walking to get her into the reigns, we shall wait and see! I wish everybody would use reigns for their toddler! Ofcourse as I have so many toys here for her and all the things she needs I find it easier if friends come to visit rather than for me to go to them, and I am not being lazy here, it is just less stress to know she is occupied and that you do not have to rescue somebodys ornaments or stop Poppy from climbing on their furniture! I also bought her some little glittery hair slides as her hair is quite long over her eyes and I keep on pushing it back so that she won`t get it in her eyes all the time. I put a little pink one in for her and she looked well cute! She actually kept it in for about 2 hours until she was crawling along with her head on the floor, a strange thing she thinks is rather funny, and it loosened and started to come out. I put it back in but she immediately tried to grab it and pull it out again, she had obviously not realised it was there the first time! I managed to get her to keep it in till Mommy arrived home from work to see how cute she looked!

Poppy is now understanding more and more, yesterday when I asked her to give her sock to me so that I could replace it on her foot so that she did not get cold she actually went and fetched it, gave it to me and then put her foot in the air so I could put it on! Bless. She now likes to play with her dolly, she will feed her with her bottle and give her a cuddle, she likes me to wrap it up and thinks it is funny when I wrap it in her own cardigan! She gave her some of her biscuit the other day, you have to watch her or she will give her food to the dogs! Not that the dogs mind, they sit by her highchair waiting and hoping that something tasty will drop on their heads, so we have to keep them out of the room when Poppy is having a meal or the dogs would get it all and she would have nothing!