Tales of Life with a Girl on the Go

During the day, we read:

• Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom, when Reid heard me mention the title, she told Ken to turn off Toopy and Binoo and asked him to read her to her instead;
• How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Mark Teague, with a good rhyme and each of the dinosaurs drawn distinctly and labelled with it’s proper name;
• Oh No! Train Can’t Go! by Heather Amery, a book that starts, “This is Apple Tree Farm. This is Mrs. Boot, the farmer …” I bought Melissa’s kids an anthology of Apple Tree farm books and they all start the very same way. Melissa and Peter have threatened to lend it to us but as a one-off, it is good;
• Iggy Pig’s Snowball Fight! by Vivian French, it bothers Ken that Iggy puts on a scarf and mittens but it otherwise naked in the snow. I hadn’t noticed but then a lot slips by me;
• Babybug February 2007, Reid really enjoys these magazines and I’m wondering if we should subscribe next year when the United Way promotion is on or just continue borrowing from the library;
• Babybug March 2007;
• Babybug April 2006;
• A Dragon in a Wagon: A Book About Ways to Travel by Jane Belk Moncure, the first in a series of book-of-the-month type books that we received for free but didn’t sign up for the rest of the series. I wonder how many people do that, take the freebie and then cancel;
• Olivia Counts based on the books by Ian Falconer, Reid has me tell her the names of her aunts and cousins when we see Olivia’s but Reid has many more of each and so we double up;
• Olivia’s Opposites based on the books by Ian Falconer, I wonder if they’re explicitly discussing opposites at daycare. Reid seemed familiar with the concept as we read it;
• The Very Bad Bunny by Marilyn Sadler, Reid seems to sympathize with PJ when he is bad without meaning to be;
• Spot Goes to School by Eric Hill;
• Good Morning, Sam by Marie-Louise Gay, a book that I heard Reid recountng to herself quite accurately but still she wanted it read to her as well;
• Poinsettia and the Firefighters by Felicia Bond;
• You Can’t Rush a Cat by Karleen Bradford, Ken took exception to the fact that the little girl says “You can’t rush a cat, Granddaddy” many times throughout the book. I love it when he gets so involved in the books;
• Mouse’s First Spring by Lauren Thompson, which has an upbeat storyline and lots of good action words.

At bedtime we read:

• Love Is a Family by Roma Downey, with my “subtitles” provided by Ken;
  Where’s That Cat? by Eve Merriam and Pam Pollack;
• Mom Mine! by Dawn Apperley;
• How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? by Jane Yolen, the mama and daddy in the book are human but Reid didn’t find that to be odd. I guess she is more comfortable with mixed families than I am though I like to think of myself as having an inclusive outlook;
• Happy Birthday, Biscuit! by Alyssa Satin Capucilli;
• I Love You Always and Forever by Jonathan Emmett, a book about a daddy mouse and his daughter. At the end I said, your daddy loves you “always and forever”. Reid nodded seriously and then said, “And my mama.” I wasn’t sure what she meant and so I agreed that Daddy would love me and I would love her always and forever. I got a tight squeezing hug for my answer and I guess that means Reid thought at least part met her expectation;
• The Angels’ Lullaby by Joyce Carol Thomas, even though I had to open the blind again because I like it so much and Reid usually refuses. She is canny enough to know that asking for it after we’re done would get her another story. Schemer!

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