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: 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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Gymnastics at last

Ever since Georgia watched Hannah do cartwheels down the track off Caldicot Castle, she has been fascinated by gymnastics. After a good month of waiting, we finally had our first session at Kestrel Gymnastics. We went along today with Cary and Anwen and joined the Pee Wees the 2.5 – 3 year old classs – [...]

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