Just like her mother!

It has been a very busy week with Poppy, she is always on the go, wanting to learn new things and have new experiences all the time, wearing her loving Grandma out in the process!!

On Tuesday afternoon we took her to Doolittles the pet shop, quite a large pet shop as it happens, which she really enjoyed. We put her reigns on so that she would not run off and she was so interested in all the animals, she loved the rabbits, mice, hamsters, birdies, parrot, biggest tortoise I have ever seen and was particularly interested in the fish! Again and again she wanted to go back and see the fish which she seemed convinced say quack quack! Odd that, given that she knows ducks say quack, and has been known to shout quack quack when she sees a bird in the garden! She will also tell you that a bird says tweet tweet so is obviously slightly confused! We were in the pet shop for over half an hour and  she did not want to leave but Grandma really badly needed to sit down by that time!

Anne called round on Wednesday morning for a coffee and chat and a play with Poppy. She sees her quite regularly and likes to see how she is changing and learning something new every time she visits. Wednesday also called for a visit to the supermarket as we had almost run out of fruit and Poppy really loves her oranges and bananas, or nanas as she knows them. She really enjoys sitting in the trolley and looking around her at all the things on the shelves and waving at everybody we pass, sometimes smiling and calling out hello to complete strangers!

I could not sleep on Wednesday night, and knowing I have to be up early for Poppy to arrive I hate not being able to sleep. I tried all kinds of things to get off to sleep, played scrabble on my DS, counted sheep, tried to think of girls names beginning with B, you name it. Then I hit on a new thing, I decided to try and think of all the words Poppy can now say, prompted by Emma wondering how many words she can say when she fetched her that day. Dog, Barney, Lily, Polly, hello, bye, book, Daddy, Mummy, Grandad, Grandma, cow, moo, birdie, duck, biscuit, thankyou, nice, no, gone, mine, baby, ball, oh dear, oh no, yuck, mmmm, yum yum, poo ............................................... I got to 60 plus words and I was still awake! For a child of 18 months, boy that little girl can talk. Just like her Mother!!!

Then we come to yesterday. We took her to the playground, luckily we arrived before the schools finished, so she had half an hour with only another couple of toddlers and their Mummies playing on the equipment. She had a go on the swings, a few goes on the slide, whizzed round on the roundabout with Grandad, up and down, up and down on the see saw. Then she did it all again! For a February day the sun was shining and it was really quite warm! She enjoyed just wandering round and round the playground, followed closely by her Grandad while her Grandma had a sit down on the bench. From time to time she would remember me and turn to wave happily before wandering off again.

Then we went home for tea.