Tell me a story

Okay, I know I need to get more photographs of Evan. He's been out of the picture (literally speaking) because he's recently become a big bundle of energy and is often off somewhere, doing something like sweeping the floor with the broom and dragging the dustpan round the house or trying to toss balls into dustbins, pretending he's really shooting into a basket (much to the pride of Packrat).

Anyway, to his credit, he has taken to books like a fish to water. In fact, both of them have, wanting to look at books, wanting us to read to us (often not letting us finish though). Evan has also developed a great memory for the books we've read to him. He can complete sentences from the books, repeating them verbatim and actually making references to them when he's out and about. His favourite book to date is of course, a book to do with trains. It's the Little Engine That Could. There are others but there are too many to name.

Both of them have their favourite books and favourite parts of books.

Jordan, like her brother enjoys books but in a different way. She loves flipping through them, looking at the pictures, making up stories for herself and carrying books around. She sometimes demands to go to bed with a particular book, pacifier in mouth, one hand clinging on to her teddy bear or her stuffed elephant, the other hand holding a book with iron grip, lying down with her eyes closed. She isn't as attentive as her brother though when we're reading to them. She knows the bits as well as he does but isn't all that enthused about calling out the bits she knows unless coaxed. She does however have an affinity to rhyme; she loves Dr Seuss and loves the cadence of his nonsensical writing.

Another thing she enjoys, is pretend reading. She mimics us. She doesn't know enough to actually 'pretend to really read' so she does it in her own language. But she's got the tone, the expression and everything down pat! Even at 20 months, she loved doing this!



It hasn't changed much, all the gibberish. Although this time, she sounds like she's saying "I eat biscuit" over and over again.



Now she just needs to put real words into it and flip the pages the right way and she'll be set.

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