On Saturday we went to Mt. Field for Poppy’s first experience in the snow!

I had grand plans of doing the Lake Dobson circuit, but the day was dreadful.  After dressing Pops in all her layers and loading her into the backpack, the weather deteriorated even more and we ended up walking 50 metres to the shelter! We certainly didn’t break any records in the distance department.

We retreated down the mountain and found more snow to play in (without the bitterly cold wind)! Poppy thought it was quite funny when her Mum & Dad started throwing snowballs at each other (and her).

We finished off our adventure with a walk to Russell Falls. I am so looking forward to spending more time with Poppy and Nick in the mountains this summer…and this was definitely a good warm up!

I have had this wooden chest for years and it has always been filled with paraphernalia that has been collected over the years, including school year books, letters, cards and old diaries. I am such a hoarder, and a sentimental one at that!  I really struggle to throw things out – like I really need to keep that letter that Teena wrote to me in Grade 9??

However, I saw the chest as valuable storage space for Poppy’s toys.  I finally cleaned it out, but still couldn’t part with any of the contents – I just transferred everything to another box upstairs!

Not only does the chest serve as Poppy’s new toy box, it is also a tunnel and a cubby house!  Perfect.

Poppy’s vocabulary is expanding by the day and yesterday morning at the beach she was saying:  “Sit Maisy”, complete with the hand gesture, that I use.   Maisy was very obliging actually!

I love hearing new words pass Poppy’s lips and her current repertoire includes:

• Boppy (Poppy)
• Mummy (used for lots of things)
• Daddy
• Zizzy (Maisy)
• Dog
• Sock
• Hi
• Bye Bye
• Up

It makes my heart melt when she says her name!