Yesterday Poppy arrived wearing a sleeveless summer dress, leggings, sandals with sparkling butterflies on and a straw hat with a yellow ribbon tied in a bow round it! Luckily she also had her coat with her as the day did not match up to expectations! Its to be hoped she is dressed warmly today and has waterproof clothing with her as it is pouring with rain outside, apparently we are to get a storm which will give us a months worth of rain in 5 days! Looking outside my window now I am thinking it may have been a good idea to make an ark!
So there we were, yesterday morning, Poppy and I, playing with her plastic toy animals. They were all arranged on the table, standing around the two apples she had gone to fetch from my fruit bowl telling me horsey likes apples. She looked at me and said party and starting singing happy birthday! First it was the horses birthday, then the tiger, then the lion, the pig ......... you get the picture, I think most of them had a birthday in the end!! I would not be at all surprised if Poppy ends up working with animals in some way when she is older, maybe a vet, she really loves animals, any animal, it does not matter what it is! She even sang happy birthday crocodile, not that she even has a plastic crocodile!!
Poppy had obviously had enough of playing with her inside toys by about 10am and grabbing my hand, makes me smile how she says "hand" when she wants to hold your hand, she waited until I stood up and then said "seaside"!! Which meant she wanted to go outside and play with the sand and water table. On went the coat, and my cardigan, and thankfully the weather yesterday was a little more kind than the weather today! Not particularly warm, but warm enough if you wore a coat!
Jill arrived just before 11am and offered to take Poppy for a walk to see the ducks and feed them some bread. Not being able to walk so far I am very grateful for these outings, and Poppy loves to go and feed the ducks! She can now say `Aunty Jill` which pleases Jill enormously, as she has been trying to teach her to say it for some time! Poppy already had her coat on so she just had to be strapped securely into her pushchair, a couple of slices of bread was found, and off they went, Poppy waving and calling "bye bye Grandma, bye bye". Bless.
Poppy was fast asleep in the pushchair on their return and continued to sleep for not quite two hours so she had a late lunch. It was not long before Grandad arrived back from work, Pops had been waiting for him and kept telling me she was going to "window", there was great excitement when Grandad finally arrived, she climbed onto the sofa and waved at him through the window, then she climbed off and did a little dance before running to the door when he came through it. Noone can say she is not pleased to see him when he comes home!
He was hardly through the door before she was saying "Grandad play Poppy, Grandad play Poppy". He does not even get time to sit down before he is pulled on to the floor to play with her farm or her plastic animals! They did play outside for a little while, but it was Poppy who came back into the house saying "cold", surely the summer should arrive soon?!!
She started playing a new game then which made us laugh, we have a baby gate on the door to the dining room so we can shut the dogs in there when we want to and also to prevent Poppy from going into the kitchen if there is hot food about. We were in the dining room as we had all been colouring (I had been trying to have a rest in a comfortable chair but Poppy had other ideas and decided Grandma had to join in!!) She got down from the chair and walked through the baby gate pronouncing "work", and after a couple of minutes she appeared in the doorway again having returned from "work." That game lasted a while before she decided to play hide and seek, when she hides she usually goes under the table or behind the door and calls out hiding so that you can find her! When it is Grandads turn she stands with her hands in front of her face counting up to ten, then she will call something like "coming ready or not" (it does not always sound quite like that) and then thinks it is very funny when she finds you.
Bless her, she is growing up so fast, she is only just over 22 months so has not even had her 2nd birthday yet, but she is doing so well having caught up with her prematurity and doing so very well.
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