POPPY GOES CAMPING!

Emma and Poppy arrived on Thursday just after lunch, they had been at Jungle boogie all morning with Bev, Ruby and Florence and had eaten lunch there. It is a new soft play centre in Codsall, Poppy enjoyed herself but at one point she did get stuck and Emma had to climb up the slide to rescue her! Apparently she had climbed all the way up and then come upon a rope type bridge which she did not have the confidence to tackle so she sat down and when Emma went over to see if she was okay or not, Poppy declared "me stuck". Emma looked at the structure Poppy had climbed and did not fancy tackling it so decided the easiest way to rescue her would be to climb up the slide and help her across the bridge! She said she did feel a bit awkward as no other parent was climbing over the apparatus but she had no choice. A lot of the other children were older than Poppy, 3 year old Ruby was quite confident climbing over everything, but some of the things were just a little too big for Pops. Emma said it would be best if we stick to the soft play centre at the garden centre where we usually go as she could not see her Dad climbing up the slide as she did! When Em arrived at our house Poppy was absolutely worn out so she put her straight to bed and she slept for the best part of 2 hours! Gray announced he would take the dogs for a walk, but when Emma said Poppy had enjoyed taking Lily for a walk over the football fields the previous afternoon he decided to wait until she woke up and they all took the dogs together. Emma had to wake her in the end, or she would have been very late to bed that evening, and Gray, Emma and Poppy set off to walk the dogs in the woods, Barney as usual holding his ball in his mouth, ready as always for a game.
At this very moment Emma, Lee, Poppy and Lily are camping in Bridgnorth for the weekend as the sun, for once, has made an appearance. They were to have gone to Torquay to visit Julie, Lees Mum, but Lee has to work this coming week and so they have had to change their plans and are going later on instead. So they decided to go camping for a short break and chose to go somewhere local as at least they could then return home if camping with Poppy and a dog did not work out well. We have the job of feeding the guinea pigs, rabbit and goldfish for a couple of days. Hopefully they will have a good time camping, and Poppy will enjoy running around with Lily in the fresh air.