at our house, we love to read. the girls love to sit and look through books and go through phases of favorites. right now, C is in love with a stack of vintage berenstain bear books that belonged to her aunt cuckoo when she was little.
when i saw that the local library program had a summer reading program that three year-olds could participate in, i didn't hesitate to sign C up. she received a prize for every five books that we read together and if you read 40 books, you received a free book. of course, when you have a competitive mama such as myself, there was no doubt that we'd be reading 40 books. however to make it more of a learning experience, i made the rule that to be able to write a book on our list, it had to be a book we hadn't read before.
this ended up being a great experience for our entire family. i read books. andy read books. nana, papi and grandma bunny read books when they visited. grammy read books when she visited. we reached 40 books with no problem.
exciting that by next summer, C might just be reading books to us instead of the other way around.
oh, MEL! this is awesome! i love it. xoxo.
Posted by: gabby | August 25, 2011 at 06:09 AM
I think it is soooo funny you just commented on my blog! I've had yours open on my computer almost all morning and keep coming back to it! lol Are you on FB? I looked for yo on there! :) And we are HUGE readers in our family too! I LOVE that my kids like to read!
Your C should be VERY proud of her accomplishment!
Posted by: Courtney Walsh | August 25, 2011 at 02:23 PM
pickles to pittsburgh! =)
love this. we love the summer reading program, too. the bigs are on to logging hours vs books.. i kinda miss writing down every title.
Posted by: lisa truesdell | August 25, 2011 at 10:11 PM