Poppins

I’ve gone all musical lately. I’m constantly singing and dancing these days. I still like the old favourites like twinkle twinkle (which I can sing all the way through) but I’m learning loads of new ones at nursery that mum and dad don’t know. That’s a good thing though, at least they can’t join in and spoil it. We’ve also been having a lot of spur of the moment disco events after tea where my favourite songs dance to are the Bob the Builder theme tune and The Feelings ‘Fill my little world’ which I love to sing along to as well as perform my smart spinning round and stomping dance.
Thursday we went to get Nanny and all went to the library to get me some new books before going home for tea, Nanny ate loads! Later on Chard came round and dad helped him carry out the huge television we have been borrowing since last year. It looked pretty heavy. Dad rigged up our old smaller one, but I can still watch C-Beebies on it okay so I’m not too bothered really. I hope you’ve managed to get the sticky fingerprints off the screen!
Saturday we went shopping in Reading to get mum a dress…boring! It wasn’t too bad actually, but I was having a bit of a mummy clingy day. Dad had the rather unpleasant task of trying to pacify me while mum was in the changing rooms. At one point I made a desperate bid to join her by crawling across the floor of Next trying to get under the curtain before I was rumbled but it was all in vain. There was a merry-go-round in the high street and I fancied a go. Dad coughed up the 80p and I got myself all set up in the drivers seat of a lovely double decker bus. Everything was going well until the thing started turning round and after two laps I was making a hasty exit bid, culminating in mum heroically grabbing me one handed from the speeding carousel. When asked what I wanted for lunch I simply requested a sandwich, they had other ideas and were trying to palm me off with allsorts of other nonsense. I was having none of it so decided to have a right old screaming fit just as we bumped into Kin and Melissa with Fen and Yanna. In spite of my noise level they invited us round to play in the afternoon after we’d finished our shopping and settled the lunch dispute.

When we got there Kin had just finished cutting the grass and he let dad and I have a go in the lawnmower! It was really noisy but great fun zooming around the garden on it. We had a lovely time playing in the garden even though the grown up’s were cold. I’d also like to thank them for the lovely inflatable tune playing alien toy they had got me from Hong Kong, everyone loves it!
After that it was home for a brief pitstop (Mum tried on her new dress to show dad and me, I told her I didn’t like it! That pleased her) and then it was on to Alan’s for a meal in the evening.

Grandad and Anne came along too and we had a really nice time. Alan made lovely roast beef and then dad and I ate so much ice-cream I’m surprised we weren’t ill. At one point I managed to disassemble the poppy Alan was wearing. We attempted to fix it but the black centre piece had gone missing…it turned up at bedtime in my nappy if you want it back Alan?
Sunday was bonfire night apparently. I’d been very aware of the fireworks (or Poppins as I prefer to call them going off for a few nights and thought they were realy exciting. Mum said we’d get a few for later on, so after a quick trip around the farmers market (hi Paul and Lynne) we went and got a load of rockets for when it got dark! Slim and Trace came round in the afternoon which was nice as mum and dad were getting pretty boring by then.
Then it got dark!

Here I am inspecting the ‘Poppins’

And here’s where I ran to from the garden when dad started launching them! It was all a bit close quarters for me I think. Still, Mum and dad seemed to enjoy themselves.
Back to nursery on Monday and I really didn’t want mum to leave me and made her late for work with all my crying…..sorry mum, it must have been a Monday thing but I just wanted a bit more of this I think:

Today Dad and I went out for a walk to see the horses, I patted them all on the nose and they seemed to quite like that. We walked all the way to the park over at Henwick and I set up a pretend kitchen under the climbing frame. I offered dad Ice Cream, Cake and coffee and made him wait ages while I ‘cooked’ it all for him!