In the last week Elsa has come to be fascinated by books. She used to have very little interest in them and primarily wanted to grab them or lick them. This week she took great interest in
Good Night Moon. Her whole body shakes and she sort of pants. She especially likes the full page span of the room with green walls and red carpet. She is also enjoying a book that has a mirror on one of the pages. With each page that is turned, she sighs when she sees herself in the colorful page.
We certainly do not spend an hour a day reading to her like we did to her brother at this age, but she is exposed to read alouds when she plays on the floor and I read to her brother, plus we have co-reading lap time with both kids at least once per day. She gets two or three books each day alone with a parent.
Its so important for me to foster a love of print, art, and communication through written word for my children, and so I feel a lot of joy knowing she is taking to books.
I hope we will one day read books together and do a little mother/daughter book club! This thought certainly is an encouragement when I read
Who's Baby Is It? for the thirtieth time!
