Reid is in a bit of a rut or, more accurately, she likes repetition. Lately, she has been wanting her cow book – a simple book about:
* Frank the Farmer, who plants lettuce even though there are apples in the trees and the lettuce are nearly full grown;
* Harriet the Hen, who gives her chicks a treat though there are no treats in evidence;
* Henry the Horse, who has a bee for a friend; and
* The pigs, who don’t have names and are accused of being dirty.
Daddy explains that pigs aren’t dirty but use mud to stay cool but who knows if Reid understands. There is an inaccuracy on every page and if I was just a touch more of a purist, I would give it away but then Reid would hound me asking for the “dow” book.
We have a more accurate book that has recently come up from the basement, where the books that were too old for Reid went, called “Who is on the farm?” It’s a beautifully illustrated, lift-the-flap book with accurate and informative text that describes what the male, female and young of each animal is called plus some fact. It’s good because we’re moving beyond mama cow, daddy cow – bull, and baby cow but there is no story line. She flips through the pages in various orders and more than once per “reading” while one of us reads the text or comments on the images. Then, she’ll come to the other parent for another read. For a person trained as an historian, I’m really not keen on non-fiction. The sacrifices I make for Reid!
While we were at the Great Wolf Lodge, the Cub Club fellow read Robert Munsch’s “Mortimer”. Reid loved the “Cling, clang, rattle-bing-bang, Gonna make my noise all day” part and asked for it recently. I bought three of the Munschworks Treasuries before I was even pregnant (maybe I jinxed myself and it took longer to get pregnant because of the purchase, but I digress). I’ve read it to her the past number of nights. Last night, Ken asked if wasn’t there another story in the book that I could read. He must have blocked, “Murmel, Murmel, Murmel” from his mind because I read it Sunday night. Before I finished “Mortimer’, though, Reid was asking to nurse and so Ken will have to wait to hear “Something Good” until another night. It surprised me that the two (or maybe three) other stories in the collection were too old for her. I’d never really thought of it before since I can understand all of the Munsch books. :+)
This morning I read Reid “The True Story of Humpty Dumpty” which is new to the line-up and gives the backstory of Humpty as a nasty egg who convinces the kings horses and men to climb onto the wall from which *they* ultimately all fall to Humpty’s amusement. Once Humpty falls, they’re not eager to put him together again but they do. Then, I read “Once Upon a Time” which is also new and has scenes from fairy tales developing in the background. We need to read the traditional tales as she doesn’t know the allusions.
When it was Ken’s turn to read, he had to start with “Once Upon a Time” although he tried to convince her that they should choose something else since I’d just read it. Today’s Parent this month talked about toddlers as scientists who repeat experiments to be sure the results are valid. Maybe she also enjoys the differences in our delievery as our reading cadence and the voices are definitely different. Ken also tackled “Where’s My Hairy Toe?”, a good pre-Hallowe’en read, and “Mama Loves You”. Ken tried switching the “mama” references to “daddy” once but Reid corrected him each time. I do try to find more books about daddies, but as I’ve mentioned (I think) it seems that most books with daddies in them are about sons.
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