George the Geek

We were watching the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "I Borg" at dinner last night. When Hugh (a borg) started talking, George pointed at him and called him "robot".

GAR-Cast for 11/1/2009

I know I haven't done a GAR-Cast in a while, but it is hard to get him to sit still for any length of time. Last Sunday we were sitting on the couch and I happened to have the EeePC handy, so we created this. If you compare it to the older ones, it's amazing how many more words you can understand. To set the scene, Duncan is on the floor to his left, I am to his right, and Momma is sleeping on the couch across the room.

Georgie the Teenager

Most mornings, I get up around 6AM, go to the bathroom, and put my contacts in. By the time I reach George's room, he is standing in his crib grinning and talking, ready to start his day.

This morning, he was still stretched out on his stomach with his head buried under a blanket. He'd had a busy Labor Day weekend, and hadn't gotten his usual naps, so I could see why he was still tired. So rubbed his back and talked to him to try to wake him up nicely. He kicked a little and pulled the blanket up over him. I asked him if he was ready to get up. He answered, "No, I still ni-night."

I laughed and kept trying to wake him up nicely, and a little while later the little stinker told me, "Go way" (Go away). I asked him, "don't you want to go to Nikki's (his day care) today?" He was quiet for 5-10 seconds, then finally sat up and enthusiastically said, "Nikki!" I mentioned his daycare buddies Ryan and Chloe, and he was quickly ready to get going.

Two new Georgie Videos

Here are a couple new Georgie dancing videos for your enjoyment.

Georgie rockin' out to his favorite song, Rock Lobster

Georgie playing with his car radio

Georgie Skills Update

Here are a few things Georgie recently started doing:

Colors: He has a little book from the new day care and he can identify and pronounce several colors: white, black, red, and purple. He often misidentifies blue as purple, but that is understandable since the blue is kind of dark. Much as he used to fill in words he didn't know with "bot", he now fills in colors he doesn't know with "dumb" (yellow, green, orange).

Body Parts: He can identify several of his own body parts by pointing at them: hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, arm, belly, leg, foot. He also identifies his hands and fingers by wiggling them, and his teeth by grinding them.

Music: He can whistle through a recorder, but not play the holes. He can drum on things and seems to be getting a little bit of the beat. He can play the harmonica similar to the recorder. He can play a small xylophone and is getting a little bit of non-randomness in the music. He sings small parts of songs he has heard often, and makes up short nonsense songs in the car.

Words: He can say a lot of words, and understands way too many to list. If you ask him to go get something, he probably will. We play a sort of Where's Waldo game with a couple of his story books, and he can locate and identify just about anything on any of the pages (dog, bird, flower, ball, fish, shoe, hat, cookie, cup, door, giraffe, car). He often asks, "Wa sa" (what's that) and points at something he can't identify.

As an example of how active he is, Lori recently described a 15 minute timespan this morning after I left:

I am missing my sun glasses and my gray comb. Please don’t take out the trash yet until I have a chance to look. He was running around the house giggling and I caught him in the trash. He also took his shoes off and hid them under the couch, socks were in the toy box. Then he wanted me to chase him to put them back on. He was in a very good mood this morning and kept telling me to "stop it" as I tried to eat my breakfast. Then he tried to take my spoon.