Rain.

On Wednesday Emma had to take Poppy to the hospital for her regular check up with the consultant who has looked after her since her early entrance into this world. She decided that Poppy is doing so well that she could discharge her from her care as she has already caught up with her prematurity. So she was discharged months early, very good indeed for the little scrap born 10 weeks early weighing only 3 pounds 4 ounces. The consultant was pleased with how many words Poppy knows (it must be well over 100 now), with the fact that she can count up to ten and understands the concept, and that she loves nursery rhymes and can sing twinkle twinkle and baa baa black sheep herself. Poppy can certainly make herself understood most of the time, though there are the odd times she will gabble on and look at you expecting you to know what she has just said!

Yesterday unfortunately it rained all day, and although Poppy wanted to go out into the garden and play with the seaside (sand and water table) the weather was just too bad to venture outside. Luckily we had aquired a plastic dolls house from the charity shop on Wednesday, full of furniture and two dollies with a baby who live there, and Poppy was very happy playing with them for ages. There is even a toilet with a lift up seat which the dollies had to use, complete with sound effects! Maybe Poppy is getting used to the idea and may soon sit on her potty so that she can be free of nappies! I think potty training will start in earnest in the summer holidays! Em says at the moment she likes to sit with her feet in the potty and then she goes and wees (or worse) on the floor!
As the rain was so relentless all day we did not venture out, prefering to stay in the dry and warm, and by the time Emma arrived to fetch her daughter our lounge looked like a bomb had hit it!