Hi Ellie,
So this month was significant to our family because routine
has prevailed. The craziness of
the holidays are long past, I am back to work part-time, and Will is sleeping
11 hours at night. We are all on a
schedule. And anyone who knows me
understands how much I love, need, and crave that! But for me, routine means that I have time to read my books
again (before this month, I haven’t touched my Kindle since the night before
Will was born but I am happy to say that I have read two of my own books these past two weeks!). I suppose that my lesson here could
very well be to carve out time for yourself but I think what I learned recently
is more than that.
Life Lessoned Learned
#47: Share your passion
with others.
Just because I didn’t touch one of my books in these past
few months doesn’t mean I didn’t read at all. It’s quite the opposite actually. I read you and Will many books! And you read Will lots of books (we’ve read some of your
favorites so many times through that you have memorized them perfectly).
Here were your top picks these past three months:
My Name is Not
Isabella by Jennifer Fosberry (this one may just be one of my absolute
favorites at the moment because of the strong feminist voice)
Paperdolls by
Julia Donaldson (which we then made our own paper dolls so that we had more
characters when we read the book aloud)
The HICCUPotamus
by Aaron Zenz (which you chose often for Will because he gets the hic-ups a lot
after he giggles… just as did you- hence how we acquired the book from Mimi who
gave it to you when you were a hic-cupping baby).
The Great Big
Enormous Turnip by Alexei Tolstoy (which your Mimi gave me when I was 17
weeks pregnant with you, when according to a website, you were the size of a
turnip. She sent it when we lived
in Denver when I was so nervous waiting for the AFP results that went so badly
with Kyle. She sent me a care
package to make me smile and appreciate you, my little growing vegetable!)
The Black & White
Rainbow by John Trent (this one is a spiritual book given to you by your
Great-Gram Bubbles which generated a discussion on forgiveness, a word that you
have never heard before but actually understood very well. You then demonstrated your new knowledge
of what forgiveness means by telling me about how you forgave a boy at school
for accidently kicking you).
Presss Here by
Herve Tullet (I love that this book because it makes you think of your Denver
friend Ben. He gave this to you on
your second birthday).
Declan Grows Up: It’s
Just Not Fair by C. Austin Lee (our family friend Linda, who’s relative
wrote this book, gave this one to you not too long ago but we’ve read it several
times since. It has allowed us to
have conversations about our talents and focusing on what we are good at… you
proudly told me you are really good at eating and playing with your Ferbie and
hope to get better at soccer!)
Oh No! by Candace
Fleming
Good Night, Gorilla
by Peggy Rathmann
Where Can They Be?
by your Mimi, Mickey Russell
Three Billy Goats
Fluff by Rachael Mortimer
Not All Princesses
Dress in Pink by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple (your Poppy gave you
this one when you were born… he could foresee the independent person you were
going to become!)
The Jellybeans by
Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans
Bernstein Bears books
(which Great-Gram Russell sends you.
Ellie, you particularly like the one about telling the truth. You never heard the word lie before so
that generated a long talk about always being honest)
Llama Llama Holiday
Drama by Anna Dewdney
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault
The Little Red Hen
by John Escott
Dr. Seuss books- your
favorite is I Wish I Had Duck Feet (we have quite the Seussical library as our
cousin Taylor, who is now a senior in high school, passed on her collection to
you as a gift for your baby shower)
Put Me in the Zoo
by Robert Lopshire
Peter Rabbit by
Frederick Warne
Goldilocks and the
Three Bears (we have two different versions and you love to compare them)
I hope you share these with your children someday Ellie
because they have brought so many smiles to our bedtime routine!
Love you Bean,
Mom
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