Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Speak to the Wise with the Voice of Insanity

Olivia had everyone in stitches today as Daddy has taught her how to say 'turtle' and she says it in a very cute way. We are trying to teach her to say 'please' and 'thank you' and she does...when she feels like it. She is stubbornly refusing to say 'cup' and still just point and gets cross until you give her some water. Auntie A_ is teaching her the phonetic alphabet sounds and she is getting very good at it 'a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a', 'b,b,b,b,b,b,b,b,' - it is all a bit Eliza Doolittle really so I may start her on 'the rain in spain' any day now :)

The other game amusing the grown ups at the moment is a game called 'ask Olivia amusing stuff'. Here is a conversation A_ had with her today:

A: Do you love Mummy?
O: No
A: Do you love Daddy?
O: No
A: Do you want some Christmas presents?
O: Yes
A: Do you love Grandma?
O: No
A: Do you want some chocolate?
O: Yes

Given the fact that Mummy is too puritanical to let her have much chocolate and she wouldn't have the first clue what a Christmas present was I have no idea how she knows, but somehow she has decided that these are questions one really ought to answer yes to!

3 comments:

  1. ha ha! I try the alphabet sounds with greggy, but he just gives me a withering look and walks away...

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  2. btw, just tried the same trick on greggy. He said no to chocolate which surprised me - surely he's on to that one by now, perhaps he's just watching his weight! But he said yes to Christmas presents.

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  3. Aaaah! I have heard the purple turtle with my own ears and it was very cute. Actually she seemed really good at copying sounds - a chatterbox in the making! Unlike Gregory, who does not perform quite so pleasingly, unless it's raspberries, or the sound of a gun, just to convince all the Leigh mums I'm really dragging him up badly! Oh well.....

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