Reading

Owen is really enjoying reading lately. He'll come up to me with a book and announce: "Book. Lap." This is my cue to sit down so he can sit in my lap and we can read the book. Sometimes we read 10 or 12 in a sitting. Sometimes we read just a page or 2. He has his favorites:
Lynley Dodd's, Hairy McLary's Bone, Hairy McLary Scattercat, and Slinky Malinky Open the Door, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Very Busy Spider, a couple of Sesame Street Books (ack!), Animal Homes, a DK First Christmas Board Book (indeed quite an orginal name, no?), Dr. Seuss books - especially the ones that come in board editions because he loves to turn pages - and some nursery rhyme books.
Here he is with a stack that we read today. It is a ton of fun to sit down and listen to him as he anticipates what will be on the next pages of many of his favorites. Some of his favorites lately are animals and their homes - great new and old words:
donkey, camel, lion, cave, hive, mole, burrow (burr), owl, horse, sheep, horse, barn, chicken (chick), duck, goose, cow, goat . . .