One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is when Eleanor goes off on her own and starts to read to herself. It's funny listening to her book babble--a pre-literacy skill too didn't you know. I had to grab the camera this morning, as well as take some videos. Her songs also been a favorite thing to record. I don't want to forget how she sings now in that cute toddler voice while it's here. .JPG)
Her favorite song now is May There Always Be Sunshine by Jim Gill, which we have to sing before we go to bed every night. It's taken from a Russian folk song and after you get the basic chorus you just have kids keep adding the things you'd like there to always be. The first chorus is:
May there always be sunshine; may there always be blue skies; may there always be Mama, may there always be me.We like to often add books, all kinds of animals, naps, hugs, Dada, family, Grandma, friends.....
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Favorite books of girlie right now include: It's My Birthday by Helen Oxenbury (who doesn't love a book where a kiddo and his animal friends bring together incredients to make a cake! I do.), Hamish the Highland Cow by Natalie Russell (gifted to us by our Scottish friends before they left, including a stuffed Hamish himself!) and The Very Quiet Click Beetle by Eric Carle. The book pictured here is What Shall We Do With the Boo Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell.
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3 comments:
That is so precious. I look back on the videos of my children when they were toddlers and I am always surprised...somehow they grew up without me really being conscious of it happening. Day by day they change and you just want to preserve every moment of it. Great pictures.
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I like to give What Shall We Do with the Boo Hoo Baby as a shower gift. Cute, cute.
What precious photos! Seriously adorable! I wish we'd had blogs when Si was this age. I'll have to dig out the old vids and get them onto DVD while we still have a working VCR - why hadn't I thought of that before! Ack!
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