Sunny 9 for 2006 November 3

(4) Fri Nov 03 2006 22:49 ABC, 123: Lily has this Mickey Mouse book that is a little too old for her text wise, but she likes it and wants me to read it to her so instead I have her describe the pictures to me like "what's this"..."a birdie" and so forth. I started having her count the animals too just to spice it up a bit. You get creative when you have to read the same book each day, sometimes more than once a day just to keep yourself sane. For some reason, books written for 4 yr olds is not intellectually stimulating for me (except maybe reading it for the first time) but I do enjoy Lily "sitting on my lap" as she calls it but she is really just sitting really close beside me and I love to see how her mind works when she answers questions and surprises me with how much she knows or how she thinks. I like that she likes to snuggle up to me and have me put my arm around her to "read to her" as she says exactly. I think it is funny she calls herself "her".

She has gotten pretty good at counting. She can go all the way to 8 then I help her with 9 and then she counts to 13. After reading the book, she was excited about "counting" that she wanted to count more. She went up to a picture I have of Aaron's family and she enthusiastically pointed and said, "One Brammy, one Ga-ga, one Josh, one Jake, one Booner, one Papa, one Mel-na-nee, one Ben." Just one of the many things that make me want to grab her and hug and kiss her.

Another cute thing she does is when there are multiple animals she will organize them into families pointing at each saying "Mama duck, Papa duck, and Wil-wee duck". And she will do it to size as well. The smallest is always her, and the biggest is always Papa, but if there are at least 3 of the same animal. Otherwise, Aaron sometimes gets left out if there are only 2. I find it interesting that she puts them into families and she will only put the same animal into a family even if there are more animals on the page. Pretty smart if you ask me...