• Baby Gorilla
• Chief Enthusiasm Officer
• Banana Procurement Specialist
• Permafrostia’s Lap Guardian
• Bear House’s Biggest Heart

Georgia arrived at Bear House first.

Not first in terms of moving in. First in terms of impact. First, in terms of presence. First in terms of launching herself at the nearest available nanny at approximately forty kilometres per hour the moment the front door opened.

Ava went down. Georgia considers this an excellent introduction.

She is a baby gorilla of spectacular enthusiasm, unwavering loyalty and absolutely zero concept of indoor speed, indoor volume or indoor anything. She wears a pink tutu and a pink bow at all times. The bow goes sideways when she gets excited, which is always, which means the bow is almost never straight. She considers this a consistent aesthetic. She was once spotted wearing a Walmart staff vest over her tutu and wore it with such complete authority that three customers asked her where the cereal aisle was. She directed them confidently. She was correct. Eugene had shown her.

Georgia loves everything. She loves Bear House and the Banyan tree and bananas and pink things and her tutu and her bow and Danger Bear’s pancakes and Eugene’s Cheerios and Yogianna who pretends to find her exhausting and Outback Bear who lets her arrange his ears while he sleeps and Medved who she is slightly in awe of and Ava who always knows exactly what she needs before she knows herself.

And Permafrostia’s lap. Georgia loves Permafrostia’s lap with the complete devoted certainty of someone who has found their perfect place in the world and intends to occupy it as frequently as possible. She sat on Permafrostia’s lap in the SUV on the way to Walmart and looked out the windshield with the satisfaction of someone exactly where they belonged. She sat on Permafrostia’s lap at the birthday party and stayed there through the song and the cake and the surprise guests and the messages from Bunny and Chippy and Novak stepping out of the trees.

She finds Permafrostia warm and steady and safe. Permafrostia pretends to find this inconvenient. She has not once asked Georgia to move. She beatboxed for Eugene’s birthday rap. She was surprisingly good. Nobody knew she could beatbox. She did not know she could beatbox. She has been practicing since. Medved has filed this under GEORGIA — UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENTS. The list is longer than expected.

She produced a banana cake at Permafrostia’s birthday party. Nobody asked how. Nobody asked where she got the ingredients. It was delicious. These things sometimes cannot be explained and should simply be accepted with gratitude. Georgia does not have a complicated relationship with the world. She loves it. All of it. Loudly, completely, with her whole heart and both arms wide open and her bow going sideways and her tutu spinning and absolutely no intention of slowing down.

Bear House is louder because of Georgia. Bear House is warmer because of Georgia. Bear House is home because of Georgia. 🌟

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