We love reading!

I have a nerdy confession to make. Back in the sixth grade when everyone was writing "I love such and such" on their notebooks, I wrote "I love...." and then couldn't think of anyone. Instead, I decided to put "I love reading." HA! My freshman roommate from college and I have joked and laughed about this silly story for years. I guess I was definitely destined to become a Reading Specialist.

Caleb started his love of reading early as well. Dave and I have been reading to him since he was a newborn. I love listening to Dave read to Caleb. Without even knowing it, my sweet husband is teaching reading strategies already. For example, when reading Mercer Mayers's Just Like Dad, the book talks about the dad driving the son; Dave says "Does Daddy ever drive you around?" Text-to-self connection! One night he was reading a book, I also heard him questioning aloud because something didn't make sense. Good job modeling, Daddy!

We were blessed with a lot of baby books from the showers before he arrived and I have a ton of books from my childhood. For the first six months, we spent most of our reading time going through all of my classic Golden Books.

My childhood books

Caleb has a large number of books of his own. His favorite is a book called Peek-a-zoo. I'm not sure who gave us this book but it has lots of textures, bright colors, and cut outs that are perfect for entertaining a little one.

While Caleb will sit and listen to the story, his reading experiences are not nearly as passive as when he was a small baby. Now he wants to touch it and TASTE it! He loves pulling the books out of his toy basket and off the bookshelves. Christmas day I even noticed him chewing on books rather than playing with the new toys.


That's my boy!