GRUMPY

When Poppy arrived with her mummy yesterday morning she was grumpy, no other word to describe it, she was not her usual smiley self thats for sure. Em said she would ring at lunch time to see how she was, and if she was still poorly she would be back, her teaching was covered for the afternoon as she was due on a course, but Poppy was more important than a course. 

Poppy did not eat much breakfast, about a quarter of her slice of jam on toast and a couple of chunks of melon, she did not want to sit in the highchair so I cleaned her up and lifted her out. All she wanted was to sit on my lap and be cuddled so I put the tv on for her and we sat and watched it. She was clearly very tired, not surprising as she had woken in the early hours and been sick all over her cot, which meant that she had to have a bath! Em said she just sat there, not surprising really, if someone plonked me in a bath of water at that time of the morning I would do the same thing! She was clearly very tired at 8am but would not give in to it, and kept on coughing, her chest is really rattly again. She finally fell asleep just after 9.30am and I lay her carefully on the sofa, her head on a cushion to lift her up a little, rather than lay her flat. She slept for an hour and a half, by which time Jill had arrived to give me a hand. She was a little more cheerful at first when she woke up, though she did not want to eat a lot again, even a jaffa cake did not tempt her. Jill offered to take her for a walk to feed the ducks and she was standing by the door ready to go as soon as she said it! I put her coat on and popped her in the pushchair, and off they went, with Poppy clutching a bag of bread for the ducks. She had just arrived back when Emma got here, I had texted her to report on Poppys condition and she decided to forgo her course and come back to look after Poppy. It was the first smile we saw all morning, when she saw her Mummy through the window.

As the day was quite warm we decided to sit in the garden for some fresh air, hoping Poppy might be a bit happier in new surroundings. She enjoyed playing on her bike, walking round the lawn and being chased up the path at the side of the house but after a couple of hours it was getting cool so we headed indoors. Gray had arrived home from work so we had a cuppa to warm us up and Emma sat on the sofa with Poppy trying to get her to sleep. Although she was obviously shattered she would not give in to sleep and eventually found her way off the sofa to play with her toys! Em decided that she would take her out in her pushchair to the shops in the hope that she might fall asleep so she headed off home. When I spoke to her this morning, Poppy did not sleep, she is too nosy and likes to see what is going on around her!

Emma is at home with her today as she is still poorly and woke in the night with a temperature so had to be dosed with calpol and stripped off to cool down. I`m told she is asleep on the sofa at the moment, hopefully the sleep will do her good.
Get well soon Pops.xxx