Love of Reading
Posted by Rachel
Dave is an avid reader and our hope is to instill that in our children. I also love to read, but I have to admit not as much as Dave. If I have to chose I usually don’t pick reading. I have been trying to get through a series for the past 4 years. I have been reading Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. It’s a great series and I recommend it, but they are very long books and with 2 kids I find it hard to have time to read.
Abby loves to read already and I hope that continues. Each night we read Abby at least one book, but most of the time it is 2 or 3 books. She has already begun to memorize her favorites like 5 little monkeys (the whole series…I think there are 4 books…at least that is how many we have), Are You My Mother?, Brown Bear, and Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?. She even shows interest in reading Daddy’s books.
Soon we will be starting with Zach. We have read him some books and sometimes he listens in to Abby’s, but really all he wants to do is put the book in his mouth. Maybe in a few more months he will be ready to look at books without eating them.
Alexis is in a phase where I’m not allowed to read to her. She HAS to read to me, except that since she can’t read all of the words, she has to rely on her memory and imagination to fill in the blanks. I’m pretty sure The Cat in the Hat is a lot less violent when I read it.
.-= Burgh Baby´s last blog ..Don’t Do It If You Don’t Want Me To Write About It. Ahem. =-.
Abby does this, too, though not every night. I’m amazed at how accurate her story-telling is on some pages, and quite amused at what she creates for the pages that she doesn’t quite remember.
You can definitely tell that their memories are keyed to the images. Last night, after we closed our last book, she saw two images on the back of the book that were small, partial images of two interior pages of the book. She very accurately told me the story as it happened on each of those two pages.
These kids are amazing, and make me feel that I’ve really let go of my mind in recent years. I’m nowhere near as sharp as I used to be (though, that could be the sleep deprivation and such that goes along with having kids….heh!)
You just aren’t reading the right books! Go, buy Twilight….you won’t be sorry…. =)
.-= Candra´s last blog ..What’s a Tea Party Without Some Scones? =-.