Georgia’s phrase for ‘Please include me in the conversation’
Our adult conversations have either been frighteningly child-focused or Georgia is just extremely clued-in. She tends to at most times understand our conversations and even sometimes chips in…But the other day in the car, when we were discussing some business opportunities, following a very silent couple of minutes, Georgia suddenly says,
“What are we saying?? “
or in Georgia’s words…Chola and Larlie.
PROGRESS!!!
As of April 23rd 2008, we no longer have a stair gate.
Georgia is now confident to go down and come up the stairs independently.
At 2 years and 2 months, Georgia is learning to research an awful lot.
Everytime she is asked, “What are you doing?”. Her reply is almost always “Researching.”
We have no idea, where she picked this up from or how she knows how to use the word in context…
inevitably to complete the researcher profile she also wants – lab glasses!
Not that I’m a paranoid parent or anything, but ocassionally i check Georgia’s developments againsts ‘Your child should be doing….’ lists through random google searches. Mainly to know what to expect, and of course the ‘kia su’ in me, jumps for joy when I find out that her development is way advanced for her meagre two-years.
So anyway, I remember reading recently that, at two, expect your child to attempt to use ‘me’ and ‘you’ but also to mix them up, and that is precisely what Georgia has been doing.
‘Mummy, or-or with you’
‘When mama talks to you….’
‘Daddy, po-po you’
Apparently Iggle Piggle from In the Night Garden is polite — even though all he says is — Eek. The conversation went like this…
G: Close it! Close it!
Me: Hey – that’s not nice. Ask nicely. Say Please close it. You must be polite.
G: Pease… Georgie be polite, like Iggle Piggle.
Me: Oh…is Iggle Piggle polite? (This is a revelation – Iggle Piggle doesn’t actually speak!)
G: Oh yes…he says – Eek.
In case, our readers are concerned, Georgia did NOT have to sing for her supper, and she was eating her jelly dessert at the time of this recording.
It has always been very important to me to teach Georgia to say “Please” when she wants something and “Thank you” when she’s gotten hold of it.
I didn’t realise how strongly the message had been getting through until yesterday….after doing a half-decent job trimming her fringe (it was getting in to her eyes), she turned to me in all seriousness and said,
“Thank you for cutting my hair”
Georgia’s very own made-up daddy song
Dad-dy, dad-dy, dad-dy
I love you…
Dad-dy, dad-dy, dad-dy
Likes to drink co-fee
When we decided to name our then unborn child Georgia, the only reason for it was that it was the only name we could agree upon based on the long list of parameters, such as ‘not too popular’, ‘sounds nice’, ‘not too girly’… and yes, we do know of the Georgie-porgie nursery rhyme.
Still it is such a pleasant surprise to find so many lovely songs dedicated to Georgia
The current favourite is the Seekers – Hey there Georgie-girl. Lyrics not so nice but lovely rhythm and melody.
On this fab video, Georgia can now correctly identify the guitars and the double bass and bops along very nicely to the singing.