School!!!

I find it hard to believe when I say this, Poppy started school!
She's four years old, four!! Today is 3rd October, the day she was actually due, instead she was born ten weeks early on the 29th July, so you see miracles do happen. Poppy is walking proof, she is a little (cheeky) miracle. Love you Pops, happy birthday.
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I ask you where on earth did the time go? It's flown by, and gone past slowly if that makes any sense. She's grown up so fast I can hardly believe that the beautiful bright intelligent chatty little girl who stands before me today, is that oh so tiny, oh so delicate little baby who I held in my arms and handled so carefully I was afraid she might break! She's now so tall, in fact very tall for four, but then we are a tall family, and everything about her is long and slender. Long legs, little thin legs that look like they could break, long arms which are so delicate, long body, thin so her skirts and trousers often slip down, she has to have a tuck sewn into her waist bands. She is beautiful, with a cheeky smile and eyes which look at you and make your heart melt, long blonde hair just like her lovely mummy. Our little Angel, our pride and joy, she is so loved, so cared about, and she is so caring. She adores animals, dogs, rabbits, cats, horses, all kinds of animals.
She loves to play, she loves to talk, chatter chatter chatter! Unless she's tired, then you can barely get a word out of her!
She goes to dancing too, tap, ballet and acro. On a Saturday morning, with her cousins. She won't show you any of her moves though if she arrives to visit after dance with her mum. We've seen her do a forward roll, but that's about it. "No grandma, I'm too tired. I can't remember"!!
And school. Poppy loves school, apparently she has so many friends she can't remember all their names! She's been on the sunshine the past few weeks, apparently you are on the sunshine if you are good, start to slip down the rainbow if you are a bit naughty and can end up on the rain cloud! The rain cloud is obviously a disguise for the naughty step! In my day if you were naughty you were made to stand in the corner facing the wall! I can remember being told to stand in the corner aged about five though I have no idea what I did wrong and just remember feeling scared and bewildered, maybe frightening young children is not the way to do things! By Thursday Poppy is shattered when we fetch her from school. She's usually hungry as soon as she arrives so has a very early tea then might watch tv for a while to let her food digest. Yesterday she then decided to play and I think virtually every toy came out arranged all over my lounge floor! The object is to try and keep her awake as her mum and dad don't want her going to sleep at 4.30pm, it's not advisable if you want her in bed at a reasonable time! So it's operation 'keep Poppy occupied'!! Going to bed late only results in a very tired Poppy next day which then makes the situation worse and is then on going!
Poppy tired = grumpy Pops.
Poppy awake and alert = happy, chatty Pops.