Sunday, December 28, 2008

Words and Gillyisms

I am sometimes amazed by Gillian's word associations. For example, we don't use the word "trip", but the other day I asked her if she wanted to take a trip with me to the store. She immediately said "Yes, Mama and G can take a trip on a rocketship". Sean recognized that this was an allusion to the Little Einsteins shows which Gillian saw exactly twice about three weeks ago. The first bit of the theme song goes like this:
"We're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship,
Zooming through the sky... Little Einsteins
Climb aboard, get ready to explore
There's so much to find, Little Einsteins" (she burst into the song moments later)

Yesterday she wanted to go to the children's museum again, and I said we would go another day. Then she started singing a song with the word "another"-"Rain rain go away, come again another day"....

She has also started telling tall tales. When she went to the aquarium with Nonni and Grandaddy, she got some wild ideas about the "big shark" she saw and was all excited when she came back to the hotel, talking about the "Biiiiiiig shark that came and bit Gilly on the bum and made a BIG BooBoo right HERE (with pointing)." Tonight she bumped a chair and pretend cried and told me she "boinged her face" and "broke her cheek" and "need[ed] a new one", and that "Papa will buy it". Listening to her prattle is endlessly fascinating, and she talks a LOT, about every single thing she has seen or heard as long as her memory goes back.

1 comments:

Martha said...

That is a riot! She is such a creative little thing. Creative storytelling already! (And am I the only one who LOVES the word "bum"?)