It's been a long while since I talked about Brooke's relationship with books. If you remember old posts, Brooke would cry each time I read to her. Despite this fact, I continued to read to her on a daily basis. She continued to get more interested in books ... in addition to eating them she would close them while we were tryng to read them. It wasnt until we found this book that things started to change.At the end, the question is asked "How big is Baby Elmo?" and the next page offers a big pop-up of Elmo that says "Baby Elmo is sooo big!". The 2nd or 3rd time we read this book to Brooke she knew what was coming and starting flapping her arms around in excitement :) Now she generally whines during the first part of the book ... only because she is so excited for the end. She doesnt want to have to listen to the "boring part" and is all about the exciting finale!
Now Brooke will sit and listen as we read most books to her. She rarely grabs at them, she almost never cries, and generally appears to be listening througout the book (as long as its short!). Its pretty exciting to see her learn to appreciate books, a passion I hope she shares with me as she grows up.
Just a few days ago I posted a pic of Brooke's first tooth. The second one was already a bit visible, but now you can clearly see both. She clearly likes showing her two teeth off because now all of her smiles are "toothy" ones and she spends a lot of time with her mouth just hanging open (like in the pic below) for no reason ;) If I had such cute teeth I'd show them off too!
