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The Dillo has hit that early-1-year-old book-obsessed phase I remember from Casper. We moved things around so all the board books are in the living room on a bookcase he has full access to, and we started reading to him more regularly at night. Almost instantly, he started bringing us books wanting to be read to. He sometimes gets into a jag where he brings a book, listens to one or two pages, gets down, goes to get another books, listens to one or two pages, repeat ad infinitum. He seems to really like Barnyard Dance right now.
He is indescribably, incandescently cute. This weekend he started marching in place when excited.
Casper likes me to read her a book in the time (often 5 minutes) between her wakeup and my house departure. This morning she fished Danny The Champion of the World out of the glass-front bookcase. I explained it was longer and we couldn't read it all at once, and she said, "yeah, it's a chapter book." I guess they learned that at school. But the chapters are good and short. Her attention span for reading aloud in books without pictures varies. We've been reading Peter Pan in the bath occasionally, and the other long book we read sometimes is Pooh. Both of those are stories where she's already familiar with the characters, and the Pooh is episodic. So we'll see if the greater complexity of Danny is something she's ready for.
He is indescribably, incandescently cute. This weekend he started marching in place when excited.
Casper likes me to read her a book in the time (often 5 minutes) between her wakeup and my house departure. This morning she fished Danny The Champion of the World out of the glass-front bookcase. I explained it was longer and we couldn't read it all at once, and she said, "yeah, it's a chapter book." I guess they learned that at school. But the chapters are good and short. Her attention span for reading aloud in books without pictures varies. We've been reading Peter Pan in the bath occasionally, and the other long book we read sometimes is Pooh. Both of those are stories where she's already familiar with the characters, and the Pooh is episodic. So we'll see if the greater complexity of Danny is something she's ready for.