This whole sitting propped up thing is changing everything! I don’t know how or when this happened. Didn’t we just bring her home!? I didn’t even really think to try to see if she could do it. Ben’s the one, the kamikaze, who propped her up on the couch first. I just had her lying down all over the place. Poor girl because it turns out that she loves to sit up and look around.
We went to the libaray today. Took out a whole truckload of books, got home and the first thing Chase asked? Can I watch tv? She flat out refused to read any of them and when I pressed her she finally chose one from her own collection that we read just yesterday. Sometimes I feel like we’re at either end of one of those finger traps where the harder you pull the more stuck you get. A whole sackful of books. Hopefully she’ll resist less as the week goes on.
hmmm, would she be interested if you read her books to yourself (out loud, just not to her)? The baby looks so, so sweet sitting up!
That is why I have a love/hate relationship with library books. I love the idea of library books and believe in the importance of libraries and want Skyler to grow up using them, but I hate having to remember to get them back on time and we accumulate late fees so easily! Speaking of which, I better check my VLP book deadlines!
The books that Skyler chose at the library last week were totally not books that I would have chosen for him, but I decided to let it go and just get him whatever he wanted. It is a library after all and I so often say “no” in stores. He read them once and now they are just sitting around and I have to make sure I get them back on time this time!
Avery looks so grown up in these pictures– so alert and strong! It is AMAZING how fast they grow and develop! I have been blown away this past 7 months as well.
I’m going to try to reach you again.
Abby does the exact same thing with Library books, so we’ve pretty intentionally relegated their first reading to bed time.
I agree with Lauren about the silly fees. I had to dig up a dime the last time we were there. A dime. Charge me real money or charge me nothing at all!