a Poppy funny

November 29, 2009

a Poppy funny

i just had to share what Poppy did today, because it's one of those classic moments when you're bringing up children which you just couldn't make up if you tried......

We took her to our nursery Christmas fayre, and we all had a great time - there was Father Christmas arriving in a white carriage pulled by two beautiful white horses, which we had a ride in, two very sweet reindeer which Poppy had her photo taken with but insisted on calling 'nay' (her word for horse), roasted chestnuts, Santa's grotto (and Poppy only got a little bit scared of Santa this year instead of shrieking at him like a banshee like last year!), tombolas and raffles and games and craft stalls and decorate your own biscuits and cake stalls and minced pies and mulled wines, etc, etc. Poppy loved it all, but she absolutely fell in love with these animals puppets which 'sing' when you open and close their mouths, so we bought her a frog one which ribbits 'twinkle twinkle little star'. She was thrilled with it and happily toddled off round the rest of the fayre, clutching her new toy. All well and good, until she decided to announce her new possession to everyone with a very loud and very proud "fuck!" repeated over and over again. Seems she can't quite pronounce 'frog' properly but was blissfully unaware of the fact. So we drew quite a few raised eyebrows from other people at the fayre, and there were lots of people there! Luckily Poppy was also waving her frog around as she made her announcement, so hopefully people understood what she was trying to say. Looks like we're going to have to work on her pronounciation of 'frog' huh?