Holly sees my lilac woolly hair tied in pretty red ribbons and smiles her cheeky smile to me. I would love to smile back but my big red lips are sewn onto my lilac satin face. Holly knows I’m smiling though, because Holly loves me, and where Holly goes, I go too.
Mummy swoops Holly up from her cot, but not before Holly grabs my leg.
I can see the pink bedroom carpet from my usual upside down world, it still has yesterday’s zoo books and the half finished wooden puzzle on it.
Mummy gives Holly her first of many kisses of the day and Holly then gives me one too.
We all go into the kitchen for breakfast. Mummy pushes me in beside Holly who is now in her Highchair. It is most peculiar sitting here the right way up, it makes me feel quite dizzy. I like the bobbles that are on the ceiling and I like the zebra patterned lampshade. I know it is a zebra pattern because Mummy told us from the zoo book yesterday.
Mummy looks very funny, usually her lips are where her forehead is, and I can’t see up her nose anymore. I certainly don’t like her eyes at the top of her face I like them down where they should be, by her chin.
Ah! Here comes breakfast, today we have egg dippy with soldiers. Holly likes to feed herself but Mummy says we will be here all day if she doesn’t help too. Holly always gives me some of whatever she eats, even though I don’t eat food. Mummy looks on with a frown on her face, I think it’s because I am hard to clean whereas Holly’s face is easy to clean.
Breakfast done, we are off to the bathroom, Mummy puts me on top of the toilet seat so I can watch.
I must not get wet all the time, as I take ages to dry and that means Holly can’t play with me. I like wash day though, Mummy washes and rinses me in the sink and gives me many squeezes to get the water out, I like squeezes they are just like hugs.
The best bit of all is when Mummy takes me into the garden and pegs me up by my lilac mitten hands, and I drip all over the grass. If it is windy I go spinning around and around on the whirly line. It feels just like being at the fair ground.
I love to see the pretty flowers in the garden and I love to hear the birds sing their sweet songs. For a while I see the world just as people do, it’s all very peculiar.
I always smell gorgeous once I am dried and I feel delicious and clean. Oh! I do love bath time just like Holly.
Holly holds my foot as we walk into Mummy and Daddy’s room to dress. I like looking at Mummy’s bedroom, she has all sorts under the bed, I can see the lipstick that fell out of her bag, she looked in all her other bags and in all the drawers, but she never did look under the bed.
There are Plastic boxes under here, with labels on, one says ‘Boot sale bits.’ It is only a small box, I wonder what bits of boots are in it. The only boots I have ever seen are in a line at the front door, but they are whole boots, who would want to buy bits of boots I wonder?
Mummy lifts us both up onto the bed, I watch the curtains blow from the open window waiting for the best bit to come, the jumping game.
Once Holly is dressed, Mummy holds her hands and she jumps on the bed, as Holly jumps down, I go up, when Holly goes up, I go down. Holly giggles and giggles to see me go up and down, up and down. Holly knows I am laughing too.
Game over, Mummy carefully puts Holly onto the floor where she now toddles off to the living room for playtime. This is where I can end up in all sorts of places.
Mummy has given Holly her princess tea set, that teapot is nearly as big as she is, and I usually end up squished inside, bent double and looking at my feet.
Holly has kindly dropped me by the sofa. I can see the biscuit Holly poked under it, and there is Daddy’s long lost fishing magazine, he never did get to read it. Holly often pulls it out, says ‘Glug, Glug’, and puts it back again. If I could blow hard, I could blow all the dust and the bits of whatever they are, out from under it, but I can’t, so they will have to stay there until hoovering day.
Oops, I am on the move, I knew I would end up in this teapot. I think I will take a nap now while I have the chance.
Looks like Holly has the same idea her eyes are having trouble staying open. Mummy is taking her to her cot but not before, she takes me as well.
I wake up to Holly crying, although I am upside down I can’t quite make out where I am at the moment, my head is pressed up against the wall and I have no idea where my arms and legs are. My head seems to be resting on some kind of ledge I can see Holly’s packets of nappies under here and her basket with creams, baby wipes, talcum powder, spare bibs and baby hair brush. Ah! Now I know where I am, I must have fallen out of the cot on the wall side because my head is resting on the ledge of the skirting board.
Don’t cry Holly, Mummy will be here in a moment, she never lets you cry for long. Look see here she is, told you she wouldn’t be long.
‘Hello, my princess did you have a nice nap? You, must be starving its way passed your dinnertime, up we get then.’ Says Mummy as she picks Holly up and takes her into the kitchen.
Hello, what about me? Oh dear looks like I have been forgotten, Oh well, I will just have to see what else is under this cot.
Oh It’s spider, hello spider, I haven’t seen you for a long time, I knew you would move once Mummy found your web and kept dusting it away and chasing you, but I’m glad to see you again even if it is just for a visit.
Spider I need a big favour and it is a big favour. I am stuck here, and I wonder if you would go into the living room so mummy will see you, so she will chase you back here where she will find me, if you could please? Thank you. says Raggity Rose, as the spider runs off.
Raggity counts to ten, knowing that Mummy will come running in after spider, and she does.
‘Shoo, go on, shoo,’ she shouts and spider runs under the cot and under the gap of the skirting board.
Thank you spider, see you soon, says Raggity Rose just as he disappears.
Mummy bends down to look for spider and she finds poor Raggity Rose leaning upside down against the wall.
‘Hello Raggity Rose, there you are, Holly will be looking for you soon, and lucky that spider came into the room otherwise we may never have seen you stuck down there.’ She says, picking me up.
‘Here we are Holly, Raggity Rose for you.’ Mummy says handing me to Holly.
‘Raggy,’ says Holly.
‘Awww, clever girl you said Raggy, I’m so proud of you well done, wait until we tell daddy.’
As soon as Daddy came home, Mummy could not wait to tell him.
‘Guess what Holly said today Daddy?’
‘Did you say a word Holly?’ Daddy asks.
‘She said Raggy,’ Mummy says.
‘Did you Holly?’ Daddy asks.
‘Raggy,’ says Holly proudly repeating it again.
‘I’m so proud of you Holly,’ says Daddy picking her up and giving her a big cuddle.
However, not as proud as me Raggity Rose though, because it is my name she is saying and me she wants. I am so proud to be loved as much as I am.
Ends.
