pooh and fancy nancy

i looooove kids books.  we have a million checked out from the library right now and we just keep renewing them because we can.  we literally have had some of these books since the end of may.  i just checked the faq section of our library website and you can renew stuff up to eight times!  so i think we could have some of these books for 6 or 8 weeks longer!  baby girl isn't gonna know what hit her when emma in charge disappears.

it's fun to check out ten books and then a few days later check out ten more and so on.  we currently have 40 items checked out from the library.  i normally just pick stuff i think baby girl would like although she does pick out some books herself as well.  my favorite part is just seeing which ones become favorites and which ones only get ready once or twice.  emma in charge has been a favorite for months.  lola reads to leo used to be a favorite right along side of emma but then it dropped off and hasn't come back yet.  bee bim bop, mystery ride, and puppy is lost were favorites for a good while too.  and her arthur lift the flap book with the abc's (even though this was a goodwill find not from the library) was THE book of choice for weeks on end. well, baby girl never showed an interest in her winnie the pooh books until she saw a few minutes of winnie the pooh on tv one day and ever since then she's been all over pooh.  she loves pooh and owl and rabbit but doesn't really care about any of the other characters.  like with sesame street she only likes elmo and abby.  no one else.

ps- this is abby... abby cadabby.

anyways, i love that she loves pooh but i'm also loving that she's showing such an interest in a new book too... fancy nancy!

i've seen fancy nancy books at the library for a long time but never checked them out before because i was sure it was more for 4-5 year old girls and baby girl just barely turned two.  well, last time i went i couldn't resist and got it for myself thinking, "so what if we only read it one time... i bet baby girl would at least enjoy looking at the pictures."  well, what do you know... the other night honey was watching tv (between the olympics, the republican convention, and now college football and soon hockey, can a girl not get a break?!  i swear my husband looks forward to watching tv than anything else in his day!) while i sat on the sofa reading baby girl whatever book she brought me and she excitedly exclaimed, "i want dancy dancy!" as she brought me her fancy nancy book.  oh my heavens i about died!  we have read this book probably 20 times in the last 48 hours.  and sometimes we'll read it several times back to back.  this afternoon after lunch we read it for a solid 25 minutes.  i mean, seriously?!  we've been reading so much lately that my voice sometimes goes hoarse and scratchy.  it's positively amazing.  have i ever mentioned before that my secret goal for baby girl and myself is to read every book in the kids section of our library?!  i've been waiting my whole life for this!  well... my whole life since i outgrew kids books myself.

thank you mother for always taking me to the library as a child.  i remember those visits like they were yesterday.  riding on those horses that are now roped off, picking out books of all shapes and sizes, and always being allowed to choose one charlie brown video to take home....  i hope my kid loves this tradition much as yours did.

ps- baby girl's favorite outside game right now involves rolling hockey pucks down the driveway (videos to follow... eventually) and i also about died the first time i heard her say "hockey puck" while we were playing. with my love of reading and her daddy's love of hockey, hopefully we can make this child somewhat well rounded.