The Georgous

Georgia has learnt to count, perhaps more accurately it should be said, Georgia has learnt to recite numbers from One ’til Eleven; well, why stop at ten??

She does do counting, I am inclined to believe that she does understand that reciting numbers do represent assigning numbers. Just the other day, she was excited over a couple of babies who followed us in to the Cardiff Toys ‘R Us store, and she counted…

“One baby….two babies”

As of the week starting  18 November, Georgia has started stating her demands in sentences — 3-5 word long sentences.

Georgia’s word for water:

Te-war

21st October 2007 — New word ‘pa-pah’ hockkien for full — when had had enough to eat.
Of course, I question whether Georgia really is pa-pah or whether she’s learnt to say that so that I stop poking the spoon at her mouth.
Whatever her reason — it works!

As Georgia’s vocabulary continues to explode at an astounding pace, as it does with most toddlers, it is fascinating to notice that she is not just copying and mimicking what we say but is starting to build some sentence structure and grammar, albeit miniature versions.

That’s how Me’s becomes the new possesive noun.

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Although Georgia knows many words and knows the names of many things, she rarely refers to what she wants by name.

She usually points and says, “There, there” building to a crescendo if we can’t work out what it is she is referring to.

She does however refer to her favourite food by name.

Hhun-nee

Often with a slight nod of her head too. Winnie the Pooh would be oh! so proud.

Georgia has started saying some Hokkien Chinese words!

Her conversations so far have been mainly in English – we do seem to speak it as the main form of communication but not intentionally or planned in any way. We do however try to speak in our own ‘Rojak’ or melting pot of language. So I’ve been wondering when Georgia would come up with something from the other languages we speak and what those words would be.

‘Jiu’ as in pang-jiu (English: pee-pee) is her first, clearly focussed on my obsession with trying to get her out of her nappies.

Next came…. ‘bak’ as in chiak bak (literal English : eat meat).

I wonder what’s next?

The weekend visit to the lake brought more excitement that one could have ever imagined to the life of my dear 16-month old. The duck and goose chasing became more than just a practise in independent walking…..

You see, G is used to seeing ducks, two-dimensional, usually yellow, on the pages of her books, occassionally we get to somewhere where ducks might be in the remote vicinity, but she had, until the weekend past, that is, yet to be close enough to actually touch one.

The lakeside was filled with swans and geese and ducks, pretty as they were, they filled the entire pathway with ‘crap’, but i digress. My dear sweet girl, could not help but struggle to get away from us, down on her feet, arms flapping wildly to try and catch the birds.

duckDuckDUCK!!! duckDuckDUCK!!!

Probably thinking that calling out to them might bring the ducks and geese closer to her, and some did, and that’s when I realised all 77cm of her stood eyeball to eyeball with the geese, albeit fearlessly!

And me, due to my crazy geese-pecking-phobia, (and before you ask, No! I have never before been goose-pecked) I quickly pick up my avian-loving baby and leg it out of there…..before well, before

THE GEESE GET US!!!

Mornings are a really fun time with Georgia, she wakes at a *&^!” , well, shall we say an evil hour of about 5.30am and is usually raring to go the minute she’s fully awake, which is maybe 5.32am!

Mornings are also when she’s not grouchy waiting for food and not grouchy from being over tired from the lack of sleep (she doesn’t seem to nap properly at nursery, a good nap is maybe 1.5 hours long, ALL DAY!).

So, anyway, this morning she noticed our cups had a different coloured liquid to hers (water or milk) and fervently pointed to our cups saying

There! There! There!  (this has been her favourite word since she started talking)

So I told her, “That’s tea. Can you say tea?”  and VOILA!

She said,

“Tea”

although really it sounded more like T…

Can you tell the difference???

Weekends are always a good time for ‘firsts’.

Perhaps it’s because G’s in nursery most of the week and our time with her is limited to the 5am – 8am manic morning rush or the 4.30 / 5.00 – 7.00 evening slowdown that we don’t really catch much of what she might have learnt to do in the day. Nursery reports are totally useless  pointless in that respect but I digress…

New word – Sunday: cheese which came out sounding more like ‘cis’, brilliant attempt though as this was in relation to her ABC book which had a picture of a wedge of cheese.

Another first was having her hair in pony tails…pictures to follow soon.