Anyhow, this is how we found her this evening after she fell asleep:
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Our Little Bookworm
Lately the only "toys" Abigail (age 20 months) is interested in (besides Elmo and Grover) are books. She reads them for the half hour after she wakes up in the morning. She devours them at the Children's Museum. When we tell her we are going for a car ride around town, she runs to one of her piles of books and grabs one to read in the car and she spends the whole trip reading it. She gets so immersed in her books that she walks backwards until she bumps into something to sit on; she is probably usually hoping for one of us, but she'll use a chair, fireplace, or even stranger's lap (again at the Children's Museum) if it is a place she can read her book. She reads to us. We read to her. She reads to/with Grover and Elmo. We read after bath and before bedtime and she can't get enough. Of course, Larry and I are delighted beyond belief that we have a little nerd on our hands!!! It really makes the whole nature/nurture angle interesting.
Anyhow, this is how we found her this evening after she fell asleep:
Anyhow, this is how we found her this evening after she fell asleep:
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Keeping her reading to her stuffed animals to put herself to sleep is key. That is a great ploy if it stays working, and you are in luck.
ReplyDeleteAt 20 months with Amelia, I had to sit in her room for a half hour or more while she cried and screamed out of the crib. Granted, I did get more reading done then as that is when I read the Name of the Rose (great book, by the way - best ending of any book I have ever read).