It was very cold and snow was in the air yesterday when Poppy was here, prompting her to ask could she play out in the snow, please Grandma! I had to stand her on the footstool by the window to show her snow was not on the ground, just floating around in the air, making it look, and feel, really cold outside.
She was very chattery (is that a word?) She told me her Daddy was chased by a big spider in the garden and he ran into the house. He was not scared of the spider though. According to Poppy her Daddy is afraid of nothing ! Not even crocodiles!
We built a big tower with her bricks, did some magic painting (remember those books you paint just with water and colour appears as if by magic?) They don't work quite the same when she wants to redo the same picture over and over! Played with the dolls house for a while then I could see she was getting tired, this was confirmed when she asked "can I sit on your lap for a cuddle Grandma?" How could you refuse a request like that? I put Room on the broom on TV for her, and we sat quietly having a cuddle until she fell asleep. Had a bit of a struggle to get up, staggered to the sofa, lay her down and covered her with her blanket.
I phoned my big sis to see how she was doing, as she is not too well, then I made some soup and peeled the veg for our evening meal before realising I had got nothing out of the freezer to eat it with! Good old sausages!
Pops slept until 12.30 and woke asking me where her tooth had gone! (It got knocked out when she fell over a few months ago!) I explained that a new tooth would grow when she was a bit older and she accepted my explanation, moving quickly on to all kinds of different subjects, telling me about playgroup, her friends at nursery and her child minders, her cousins and insisting that Lily is her best friend.
Poppy ate her lunch while watching Pippin and keeping up a running commentary about what Pippin the dog was doing on screen, then Jill and Hannah arrived to visit, causing Poppy to rush and hide beside the chair calling "you can't find me". She then wanted to play with Grandads iPad and sat with Hannah showing her the different games she can play, which amazed Hannah that a 2 year old can use an iPad!
Grandad got the road mat out when he arrived and crawled round the floor playing cars while I sorted tea. Poppy decided at one point that he was too old to crawl on the floor and told him to sit on the chair and be quiet! She said they were at playschool!
My mothers day cards were of great interest to Poppy who told me she was reading her newspaper, and that it was very interesting and important. Where she gets all the big words from I don't know! At 2 she has a huge vocabulary.
Poppy flew to her mommy with her arms open wide ready for a hug when Emma arrived to fetch her, what better welcome could you wish for?
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