The Georgous

Tag: What Georgia did Next

  • Conversations with Georgia: What's your job mummy?

    G: Carys’s mummy works in the playgroup. What does she do?
    Me: She manages the playgroup and looks after the children.
    G: What about you? What is your job mummy?
    Me: Hmmm….what do you think my job is?
    G:To look after me!

  • Conversations with Georgia: Open-seal car

    G: Mummy, when I am big, can you buy me an open-seal car?

    M: Yes of course, I would like one too.

    Do you know what an open-seal car is? Can you guess?

    A convertible of course!

  • Conversations with Georgia: Brang the past tense of Bring

    It’s amazing how Georgia’s english grammar is almost always perfect. We have never attempted to teach or explain to her why we use past tense or present tense – she seems to have picked it up perfectly.

    This is evident in the use of : Brang…
    As Georgie would say, I brang this baby here today.

    After all, if the past tense of sing is sang and the past tense of ring is rang….then why not the past tense of bring be brang!

  • The First (accidental) Pun

    Dr Gray Dr Green Dr Red, Dr Blue…

    Dr Orange my bed…

    as in Dr arrange my bed

  • Conversations with Georgia: Mummy, when were you a baby?

    We’re in the car travelling back home from Cardiff when a little voice in the back seat asks:

    G: Mummy, when were you a baby?
    Me: Oh that was quite a long time ago.
    G: So where was I when you were a baby?
    Me: You were not born yet…
    G: Yes but where was I?

    …. what would you have said, given that Georgia is just over 3 years old.

    Dad eventually joins the conversation:

    D: Mummy and daddy did not know each other then, we were only babies. So you were not born yet.
    G: But why?

  • Jack and the Beanstalk: Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

    Over the past week, Undy Nursery had been working on a ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ theme.

    They read the story, planted beans, watch a show on TV. Georgia is already familiar with the story from an activity sticker book she got about a year or two ago.

    This morning, she sang the Fee-fi-fo-fum song and completely had me in stitches. Why, you’d wonder would this song –

    Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum
    I smell the blood of an Englishman
    Be he alive or be he dead
    I’ll have his bones to grind my bread

     be so funny?

    only because – we live in Wales and Undy Nursery School is a ‘Welsh’ School.

    I did think they were taking the Welsh-English discontent to extreme until I found out that the words were the original!

  • Trial at Undy Nursery – 1/4/2009

    Having arrived back from a busy London trip on Tuesday, 31st March, we were lucky to have managed to pull off the Undy Nursery trial session without too much challenge.

    Given that 1-3pm is usually nap time – Georgia did exceedingly well, and was very well behaved at the trial session. She was not particularly keen on letting me go initially but after hanging about for half an hour, I managed to convince her that I needed to use the loo at home, and she was quite happy to stay at nursery for about an hour more before I came to pick her up.

    So the trial session went well – now to see how actual nursery goes! Goodbye afternoon naps!

  • Conversations with Georgia: Something Interestable…

    This weekend we tried making Char Siew Pau from scratch with dough mixed in the breadmaker. Georgia helped by rolling out the dough balls in to flat round shapes while i filled it with our home-cooked Char Siew.

    After finishing our Pau making session, Georgie decides that there has to be more to do, so she asks…

    “Mum, can I do something interestable next please?”

    I think interestable is supposed to be interesting.

  • Conversations with Georgia: How to spell Smarties

    Sunday 14 Dec 2008

    G: Mum, how do you spell Smarties?
    Me: Ok, you look for the letters and I will tell you the sounds…

    We managed to spell Smarties together with Georgie finding all the letters in the word herself and arranging them in the right order too!

    We’ve a Smartie here!

  • Conversations with Georgia: Who body else?

    The conversation about who else goes to gymnastics. It goes along the lines of…

    G: And Anwen will be there, and Shirley will be there.

    G: Mummy, who body else will be there?

    Interestingly – if you stop to think about it, ‘who body else’ does make sense if it follows on from the ‘Anybody else?’ question.