Too Soon To Tell
Does this mean she loves books or hates them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oOFIsQP2gU
UPDATE:
For some inexplicable reason, the embedded video window was crashing Internet Explorer for users, so I have replaced it with a hyperlink until I figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, IE sucks. Consider Firefox.
How cute! Looks like your basic gravity test to me!
Neither love nor hate books. It is most interesting to drop things and watch the fall down.
But you can influence her. Buy her picture books and most important: Read books to her as soon as possible. We did it for our daughter and she likes reading. I still remember the time when she was around four. She knew a lot of her books by heart and every time we made a mistake she corrected us.
edifanob: My sister used to do that. She was ten years younger than me, and her favorite book for me to read was “The Monster at the End of this Book” (a Sesame Street book staring Grover). Whenever I was too busy to read to her, she’d start “reading” it to herself.
It was so cute to watch and listen to!
And it just looks like she’s conducting age-appropriate science experiments: finding out if the theory of gravity really does work all the time! 🙂
it means Cassie is getting taller and cuter by the day
Bronwen: I had that book!! I also had one with the Amazing Mumford, but I don’t remember what it was about. I just remember there were lots of hot dogs and he said, “A la peanut butter sandwiches!” a lot.
We read books to Cassie every day. She likes Dr. Seuss and Eric Carle and Leslie Patricelli and Sandra Boynton, and of course Goodnight Moon right before bed. But mainly she likes to chew on them.
That was me. From the time I knew what books were, I had to pull them all off of the shelves and “read” them. My favorite spot was in a tiny nook of my parents minuscule apartment on the 7th floor of a huge apartment building in Berkeley. During the late afternoons the sunlight would make that tiny space a warm, sparkly wonderland (thanks to dust motes). I would pull ALL of the books off the shelves till there was a really big pile around me, and then I would pick one at a time to look at the pictures and try to tell myself a story about the pictures. I remember that half the fun of “reading” was making a big mess, and the satisfying “plunking” noise the books made when they hit the floor. I know there is a picture somewhere of me in the middle of a mountain of books – I wish I could post it here.
I still pull books off the shelves of my apartment and sit on the floor with them whenever I can. I am graduating in four days with a double major in English Literature and Creative Writing – and watching Cassie reminds me how I got here. How fun to revisit the thrill of making a mess that expands with every book and not care what happened to the covers or the corners… 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
It means she’s on her way to developing a level of cuteness that can enthrall the unsuspecting. Insure that she only uses this power for good.
I think she’s a cute little pain in the butt and nothing will ever again be safe in your house. Why should she be different from other kids (namely YOU)!
Ha ha ha, your mom just said you were a pain in the butt!! Oh, snap!!