Florence Rose.

Poppy stopped over last night, her mummy and daddy were off out for a christmas meal with friends so when Emma fetched her from the childminders she brought her straight round to ours then headed off home for her pyjamas, rather than mess her about getting her in and out of the car seat. She was very tired after a busy day at the childminders, apparently the childminders son had been off school, lying on the sofa, and Poppy loves him so didn`t want to go to sleep all day in case she missed something! Sounds like she spent the day jumping all over Tom, so lets hope she has not caught whatever it is he has, he had a temperature, not sure what else, and you can make a bet Pops will catch it!

I changed her nappy, got her into her sleep suit and gave her her milk, her eyes looked very sleepy and I thought she would be in bed by 6.30 but no, she finished off her milk, sat for a moment or two, then jumped off my lap, headed for the sofa and jumped up, wanting to look through the window! Not much use as it happened, it was dark by then! She had a new lease of life until about 7.30 but I could see how tired she was, she was fighting it and trying not to give in, so Grandad carried her upstairs and I followed to get her to sleep. We sat in my bedroom for ten minutes or so, Poppy sucking her dummy madly, pretending she was not tired, then she fell asleep showing that I was right all along, she was shattered!

Ten past three she woke a couple of times, having lost her dummy, but she did settle down again eventually and then slept until 6.40am so I suppose that wasn`t bad, from 7.30 last night. We could hear her talking to her teddies, though quite what she was saying was anybodies guess! A few minutes later she had had enough and started to cry, Gray was having to get up anyway for work so he went and fetched her into our room where she was immediately fine again, pointing to Barney who was still fast asleep in bed and saying "aaahhhh"!!

Gray went off to work at 8am and Emma arrived about 10 so Poppy and I had a couple of hours to play. She likes pulling the basket out of the unit in the hall and taking out all the dog leads and collars, she used to just leave them all over the floor but now she carries the collar and lead to the dog and tries to put it round their neck! Em, Poppy and I had lunch and now they have gone to visit Florence Rose, Emmas new niece and Poppys new cousin, born to Beverley last Tuesday morning, weighing 8 pounds. Pops will enjoy that, she loves babies!

So I am shattered now as you can imagine, and I hurt as my arthritis is playing me up a lot at the moment, Poppy is a good little soul, but I still need eyes in the back of my head to prevent any accidents happening!