An amusing grandparental conference (all four of us) with Martha this afternoon, followed by dinner at Pizza Express.
Martha's vocabulary is coming on in leaps and bounds. She has, this week, used the following words correctly in context:
civilised
splendid
I was working on getting her to use "coruscating", "cosmopolitan" and "spiffing".
Also, her tastes in foodstuffs are very refined. We went to Pizza Express for our meal (Martha is quite a regular there, it appears) and she is especially keen on the green olives still with their stones in (her mother cuts slices off to ensure that she doesn't inhale the stones).
We haven't got her to select the wine yet. However, her mum was telling me of an incident in the past week in which she was sitting on the sofa with one hand on her knee and her elbow sticking out rather. Martha appeared, grasped her mum's elbow and pulled her forearm down, pushed it up, pulled it down etc. When asked what she was doing, she replied "Pouring beer." On the strength of this, I mimed the pouring of a pint using the PE pepperpot and my empty banoffee glory glass and she got it in one.
Martha will be 2½ on 27th December.