Poppy Ford: YouTube Video Editor

If you are going to the Richmond Mall between now and noon on Friday this week – please stop by the voting box outside Farmers and vote for Poppy’s photo (number 29).

You can vote once a day per person – so vote for everyone in your family and you could win one of the daily $100 Mall Vouchers.  All votes will be put in the draw for a Gold Coast holiday for four. (includes airfares from Chch, 5 nights accommodation, airport transfers, and a 2-day pass to Dreamworld/Whitewater World per person.

The most-voted photo wins $1000 in the form of a new digital camera and credit for photo developing.

Vote for the photo of Poppy wearing sunglasses with her GreatGrandma – number 29.

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 and didn’t get up once!  She also enjoyed playing in her room with her toys this morning.

Staying in her bed for her midday sleep was a different story!  After her tenth trip up the hallway, Mummy decided to put her back in her cot which is now against the other wall but still there as a backup.

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 nearby.  The Illumination Room was fun because Poppy loves following trails on the floor and there were lots of lights with arrows she could follow.  We sat and watched the WOW movie in the theatre and Poppy ate her grapes. It was good practice to look and not touch in the Car Museum – Poppy looked at all the cars and posed for some pictures along the way.

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.  Emma gave Poppy lots of her too-small clothes and toys for which we are VERY grateful – mainly because Emma is so COOL & TRENDY!

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 Adrienne was overseas and never met her in person.

We drove to the animal farm where our piglet was waiting with her family.  Poppy played with all the other animals and then chose her favourite piglet from the litter.  GranJan was allowed to pick her up even though she is only 11 days old and needs to stay with her mother a few more weeks before coming home with us.  We’ve decided to name her Lily and Poppy practiced saying ‘Lily’ on the way home.

For more information on KuneKune Pigs.

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 to match the melodies. Her favourite characters to sing with are:

The Wiggles

Dora the Explorer

Elmo