Hello Grandma, Grandad called Poppy when Emma brought her round this morning. With a big grin on her face she trotted into the house and immediately reached up to the bowl of grapes I had prepared for her arrival, popping a couple into her mouth so that her mouth was full to bursting.
"Yum" she said as she finished chewing and reached for some more!
In between grapes she announced "Daddy, bike, horses".
Emma said its the first thing she says when she gets up in the morning, and she repeats it at regular intervals throughout the day! She really, really loves to go with Daddy on his bike to feed the horses! She then said "apples, horses" before eating some more grapes.
The first thing she heads for, from her toy collection I have here for her, is her plastic animals. She has a large basket full now, not just farm animals but tigers, lions, elephants and a rhino. I was not surprised when she threw all the other animals on the floor and dug out the horses. "Horsey," she announced handing me one. "Baby horsey." The horses all then had to gallop about "clip clop, clip clop" she shouted, banging them up and down on my knee, "neigh neigh"!! She looked up at me, "Grandma do it" she said!!
She seems, somehow, to have gathered together a small collection of 6 plastic horses from various places, the farm from the charity shop had two with it, another she had free with a childrens magazine, not that it was really free when the magazine was about £1.99! The others were in a bag of plastic animals we got from Hootys, a warehouse of a place which sells all sorts of things. One is actually a donkey, she calls it a donkey horse and will tell you it says "hee haw", and another is a zebra, but to Poppy it is a zebra horsey. It is from the horse family after all, so I suppose she is right!
She placed them all on the table, around the bowl which still had a couple of grapes in and told me they were having a party!
Jill arrived just ten minutes after Poppy had fallen asleep. Jill had intended to take her for a walk in the pushchair to feed the ducks and had brought the bread for them. Poppy only slept for about 40 minutes though, and woke with a smile on her face when she saw Jill. She was soon sitting in the pushchair when Jill told her she had bread to feed the ducks, ready for the off.
Lee arrived on his bike to fetch Poppy just as she was eating an ice cream, he had already let me know that if he was finished early enough he would pick her up to go and see the horses. Poppy was very excited to see her Daddy and could hardly wait to finish off her ice cream. She ate it all though! As soon as she saw the bike outside she got very enthusiastic and started to skip up and down, then she turned round and said "bye Grandma, bye Grandad" to us while waving and smiling! Gray cut an apple up for them to feed the horses, Lee put her coat on for her, strapped her onto the bike and off they went, with Lily in hot pursuit! Bless.
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