Monthly Archives: September 2007

into new bed

At 20 months old, it’s time to try moving out of the cot and into Poppy’s wee bed.  Mummy spring-cleaned and moved furniture around in Poppy’s room yesterday and made a big deal of Poppy’s new bed.  Last night she spent her first night in it … Read More

wow museum

GranJan and Mummy took Poppy to the WOW Museum open night to view all the wonderful Wearable Art costumes and the Classic Cars.  As Poppy watched the costumes move through the auditorium she was very impressed and often said “WOW!” which got some giggles from people … Read More

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friends

During the holidays Poppy has had some friends over to play.  Ayla came to jump on the tramp and we met her new baby sister, Jana. Also, Poppy played dress ups with Emma and Brittany at Toni’s house while Adrienne was working on their computer.  … Read More

our new piggy

Poppy is getting a new pet at the farm – a baby KuneKune piggy!  GranJan & Yogi have raised these beautiful-natured pigs before – their first was Pheobe and their second was Poppy!  In fact, Poppy was partly named after Poppy the Pig even though … Read More

first singing

Poppy has always responded to music – especially kids songs. She has been doing the actions to songs for quite awhile now – but this week I’ve noticed she is really trying to sing the words and move her voice up and down in pitch … Read More

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smile!

Poppy is very interested in the camera now – she wants to see the picture I’ve taken in the digital memory. She is also trying very hard to SMILE on command!  She loves looking through her baby album and often brings it to me as … Read More

single parent families

As this topic is something I’m now very interested in learning more about, I was surprised to hear a study being reported on during our local TV news. I’ll add the text of an article from the newspaper if you are interested too…

grocery grab

We had a fun evening tonight!  Josh’s dad Mark invited Yogi to host his supermarket’s grocery grab promotion in Motueka.  So we all drove up after school and Poppy played in the park nearby and fed the birds while Yogi did his preparation.   Then we … Read More

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tiny tots

Poppy has learned to help blow bubbles at school. Here is a photo of her new teacher, Becca.

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cafe fluffy

We have only just discovered a menu item at many cafes for kids called a ‘Fluffy’.  It’s frothed up milk served in a cup and looks just like the grown-ups drinks.  Poppy LOVES them.  GranJan can make her own at home in her cappucino machine.