twelve weeks old - bring on the books!

Today Rowan and I spent a lovely hour lying on our bed. First we played sit-up - she is getting SO strong and holds her head up unaided a lot of the time now. Then, I decided to try reading her a book. It was my first time really reading to Rowan and she loved it. She did a lot of "talking" to me when I paused in the reading and reached out to touch the board book edges. She was SO excited at one point that she squealed again!

The last few days, she's been trying out new sounds, especially squealing when she is excited. The spinning sheep rattle on her rocking chair, Nigel's electric toothbrush, tickling, and now reading, have all managed to get this reaction.

The board book I read to her is called My Many Colored Days, written by Dr. Seuss, and it is all about how people can feel different on different days and ties these emotions to different colours and animal shapes. I love the way the text is written "Then comes a yellow day/and Wheeeee! I am a busy, buzzy bee" and "Green days/Deep deep in the sea/cool and quiet fish. That's me." The words make it really easy to do different voices and sound effects and physical actions to go with it, so it would be fun to read to kids of a variety of ages. And it has really cool illustrations that make me want to paint.

Highly recommended to anybody buying a gift for a young child; this book could help kids learn to articulate how they feel and understand that it is normal to have days where you feel different.

Poor tuckered out monkey! Too much stimulation.