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!

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Conversations with Georgia: When I am old….

Georgia is fascinated with gadgets and basically anything that looks as if it may make life a little easier.  She has been impressed by the walk-in baths, the ones with the doors on the side, and fascinated by walking sticks.
So one day as we were getting ready to get in to the bath,
G: Mummy when [...]

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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, [...]

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The First (accidental) Pun

Dr Gray Dr Green Dr Red, Dr Blue…
Dr Orange my bed…
as in Dr arrange my bed

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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 [...]

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Conversations with Georgia: Sorry!

Daddy knocked his knee on the dining table.
Georgia looks up at him and says “Daddy, say sorry to yourself!”

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Conversations with Georgia: Mummy ate a Ladybug…

We were on our way to the Rogiet train station when we had this conversation.
G: Mummy, you had to go to the surgery and Daddy and I went shopping.
Me: Oh yes…
G: And when you were not well, did you eat a ladybug?
Me: What? Why did I eat a ladybug?
G: You were not well – you [...]

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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, [...]

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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!

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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.

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