Georgiana had a great Christmas this year. The week up to Christmas was very full with baking sugar cookies, jam thumbprints, mince pies, pecan tarts and chocolates, as well as working on making, buying, and wrapping Christmas presents. Georgie made a quilted bookmark for Abigail for Christmas. She chose the fabrics and the design, using a green fabric, red fabric and very light beige and pink fabric. To Imogen, she gave a visible woman kit - which is an anatomical model of a woman, where you have to paint all the different body organs and fit them inside the model. To Samuel, she gave a Quad Bike Lego set. To Eleanor, she gave a wooden doll magnetic dress-up set. To Verity, she gave a catapillar toy. To me, she gave a hairbrush and to Tim she gave, along with the rest of the children, Cambridge monopoly.\

Georgie got an Oregon Scientific child's laptop computer from Santa. From us, she got a 'Barbie-master-TV-chef' set. From Abigail, she got an homemade pocket doll with a homemade doll's quilt, which she loves. From Imogen, she got a Hello Kitty play cake shop. From Samuel, she got a homemade quilted eyepatch. I don't think she got anything from Eleanor. From me, she also got a new homemade, quilted stocking. She went to bed leaving out her old stocking, and when she woke up, Santa had filled her new stocking.

On Christmas Eve, Georgie went to the crib service at Ely Cathedral, where Abigail and Imogen were singing in the choir. We got to sing some nice Christmas carols, get a glimpse of a donkey walking up the isle, and see the impressive nativity scene under a massive Christmas tree in the cathedral. We went straight home from the service, and got ready for dinner, where we had the missionaries as guests. For dinner we had fish saffron soup, using ingredients that Mary and Joseph would have had in their day, along with olives, chesses, breads. We had traditional mince pies for dessert, and then had our Christmas nativity play. Georgiana was Mary in the play this year, with Samuel as Joseph. Then it was time to lay out the treats for Santa, although Georgie had done that about two days before. Somehow, finally, she and her siblings settled down to bed. She didn't wake up at the crack of dawn, either. It must have been at least 7am before she woke up.

On boxing day we went down to Grandma and Grandpa Bleakley's house in Tunbridge Wells, where Georgie got to see her aunts and uncles, and her cousin Lilly, who she had a fun time playing with while we were there.

Georgie has also started violin lessons! She started them in early December. She is loving it, and regularly reminds me that she has to practice. Georgie got sick on 12th December with a really bad temperature and horrendous cough, and she had to miss four days of school. She didn't go back until 18th December, the last day of school before they broke up for the Christmas holidays. She was a sick and pale little girls!

On the second day of our holiday in the Lake District, we went to Beatrix Potter's house on Hill Top. It was a delightful cottage, and Beatrix Potter's books were dotted around the house so that one could see how she used various images in her house in her illustrations. Georgie enjoyed seeing all the different illustrations in her books.

Georgiana had fun on Halloween! She dressed up like a pumpkin, and went trick or treating with all her sisters and brother. Tim carved a pumpkin especially for her, in the shape of a ghost, a picture of which I've included here.

Georgiana is loving her first year of school! She has just started taking home reading books. She also has a word tin, in which she is given a few new words each week, to practice making into sentences. At our parent teacher conference, Georgie's teacher seemed really impressed with her progress, especially her math, believe it or not! She's also coping well with her school schedule. She isn't too tired anymore after school, which means she doesn't have as many temper tantrums as she used to! This morning she and Samuel decided to 'job-share' by helping each other do their jobs, so that instead of doing one job each by themselves, they did their individual jobs together. It was very sweet ...

Georgie has to wait around alot for her older sisters at their various lessons. She doesn't seem to mind, though! Here she is with Eleanor, waiting for Abigail, Imogen and Samuel to finish their horseriding lesson.

At half term, which was October 24-31, we all went as a family to the Lake District. On one day we went to Grassmere, and did a three mile hike up to Silver How. Georgiana made it to the top of a very steep fell, with no complaining whatsosever!

24 July 2005

Georgiana will be four months old in three days. She only weighs 12 ½ pounds, and feeds very often. She rolled over for the first time last Saturday, 16 July 2005. She was started on solids this week. I started her on carrots and potatoes, in an effort to stave off the development of a sweet tooth, even though I find it very hard not to give fruit purees. She doesn’t seem to mind solids, although she’s only had very small amounts.

Georgiana is a smiler! She has a cutest smile and she uses it all the time. Everyone comments on how smiley she is. She really is a gorgeous, happy, smiley baby … who loves to be held by her mommy! If I’m holding her, she’s OK. If not, it is increasingly likely that she is crying.

October 5, 2009

Georgiana started school last month! She has Mrs. Nichols for her Reception teacher. Georgie has settled into school really well and enjoys going. She's also really responsible every morning - she gets herself dressed, with the clothes that she has laid out the night before, puts away her pajamas, makes her bed, and most of the time remembers to tidy her room. Then she comes downstairs and - most mornings - cheerfully does a job, such as emptying the dishwasher or setting the table or folding clothes. One morning she even sorted through my laundry and put it into darks, lights and whites. Tim has been gone during the week for the past five weeks, and he left the children with instructions to help me around the house, so Georgie has taken it upon herself to help me with the dishes after dinner. As she sees everyone finishing their dinner, she'll say, 'I want to wash up, I want to wash up.' And she'll park herself in front of the sink, fill the sink up with freezing cold water, and try to rinse dishes to put into the dishwasher. Above are some pictures of her in the outfit which she wore on the first day of school. It's a french pinafore that I couldn't resist buying - she looks like a little Parisian girl from the 1940's!