2.25.2010

Reading Rainbow

Sometimes I am amazed at how much of a mini-me Shae is, in ways that both impress and mortify me. She is many of the same things that I am -- stubborn, independent, funny, smart, with a hot temper -- which is both a blessing and a curse. The good news is, we know what we're going to need to work on as she gets older.

Read Along

One of the things we don't mind, not at all, is that she is a reader, just like me. She loves being read to -- in fact, we can actually get her to go to bed early if we promise an extra story. And she won't settle down for the night unless she has a book in her hands when we tuck her under her covers.

Engrossed

My Aunt Bet got Shae some new books for Christmas, and right now the favorite is "Imogene's Antlers" by David Small. Already we know the story by heart, so Shae can read it with us instead of us just reading it to her. She gets so engrossed in the story that we sometimes need to stop and talk about what is happening in the pictures.

I love this kid.

3 comments:

  1. do you have snow ??? we do but roads are still clear...news has philly with 10 inches

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  2. did shae love to read when she was one? i mean, joey LOVES books, he just doesn't necessarily like to sit and listen to us read them to him. i think he likes to make up his own stories ;-)

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  3. she loved picture books. short stuff. boynton, etc. we didn't get into the books with the actual PLOTS until the last year or so, and she started telling us the stories in the last few months. but going to bed with a book? that's been going on for a while.

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