Oh poo.

Poppy has been really good the last few days and is now out of nappies in the day time, you can tell when she wants to "go" and can point her in the direction of the potty. She does not always like to tell you, or ask to use it, but as she gets used to it that will come.
She has been suffering from a cold this past few days, again, and it is always wise to keep a tissue on hand for when she needs one. Em took her to the doctors who gave her some antibiotics and upped her inhalers so hopefully that will do the trick and indeed already seems to be doing so as her appetite was returning a bit yesterday.
She makes us laugh all the time, she told her Daddy he looked funny the other day because of the jumper he put on when he arrived home from work. Mind you it was a Rudolph the rednose reindeer jumper that he had at Christmas but he had been working out in the cold all morning and was frozen, he said it was very warm which is why he decided to wear it in January! She asked to look at my nail varnish yesterday, she loves it when we paint our nails, and she particularly liked the red varnish I had used, telling me my nails look smart! She wanted to know what colour I had on my toe nails and tried to pull off my slippers until I told her I don`t paint my toe nails, then she wanted to go upstairs and fetch my varnish so she could paint my toe nails for me! I managed to distract her from that one, I can just imagine what my toes would look like if I let a 2 and a half year old loose with a bottle of nail varnish! I can imagine what the floor, sofa, dogs and infact everything else around would look like too!
Poppy was playing with the dolls house yesterday and she has a little family who live in it. She put the baby to bed and decided to get the little lady to read it a story which went something like this "Once upon a time three bears lived in a house in the spooky woods. They went for a walk to wait for some porridge and then the big bad wolf came." Goldilocks mixed up with Red Riding hood was quite inventive!
Poppy never stopped talking yesterday, apart from the hour and a half she was asleep, and I think every toy we have in the house was taken out and played with at some point during the day. She wanted the blackboard and easel out then kept making me draw the sun which she immediately rubbed off with the blackboard rubber amid gales of laughter, especially when she got tickled for being cheeky! She had a tiny accident in the morning involving a poo which she tried her best to get to the potty for, but which she did not quite make in time. She sat on the potty but did nothing, though unbeknown to me the poo she had done must have slipped through her pants down the leg of her trousers so that when she had her trousers pulled up she immediately started dancing around saying "I got a poo in my trousers, I got a poo in my trousers!" Sure enough when I took her trousers off it dropped on the floor and I was forced to pick it up with paper! She then had to have clean trousers and underwear on after being washed thoroughly. I was relating this story to Emma and Poppy immediately wanted Mommy to draw a poo on the blackboard which she then kept saying "poo" and holding her nose then rubbing the drawing off and laughing her head off. Having Poppy to visit is often funnier than a comedy show on tv! Bless you Poppy, you make the sun shine even when the day is grey. x