Funny Looks

Georgia's expressions are getting really dramatic. She expresses a lot with her eyes and mouth. Here is one of her looks. I think it means, Mom, why are you taking so many pictures?

Here she is enjoying her afternoon snack (a pear) and Wally looking on with one thought in mind, how to steal the pear from her hand.

Georgia also has been inventing words. I've already told you about her word for sunglasses-- adah. She also has 2 new names for Wally, Leisel (which is not invented, it comes from the Sound of Music) and Mapda. When she wants something but can't think of what it is called she calls the item a "gulpi, gulpi". She also will shout when she is really excited "pat-a-poing". These words, as unusual as they look, are very present and repeated in her vocabulary. I think babies come equipped to invent language and although they learn the ones that they are around my guess is that they could create a complex language system all their own if they were left up to it!

Beyond made up words, she is also putting together some really funny sentences. On Sunday in the car she told me, "Mommy, I need a kleenex, I have some lady bugs in my nose". I gave her a tissue and then she handed it back a little later saying all the lady bugs were gone. Then, on the way home from church she said that she needed another kleenex because her "nose was running away from her". I had to laugh!