Little Bookworm

So it's probably the teacher in me, but I am so thrilled with Alex's love for books and reading! It was always perplexing to me how kids can enter kindergarten having not been introduced to stories and not having access to many books at home. Reading is such a part of our day, everyday. I would say on an average day Alex reads at least 8-12 books! He LOVES to read! It has never been something that we forced on him, he has just always loved it! We always read two books before nap and two before bed, but he chooses to read and asks to be read to many other times throughout the day! He rarely doesn't sit through the entire story (even when it is long) and then when it's over, he often asks to you to read it to him again. I hope that this is something that he enjoys forever and that this is just the beginning of his love for books :)


I find him like this often... snuggled up on his bed with a pile of books that he's planning to read :) (His sheets were inthe wash in the bottom picture lol)



His current favorites are the holiday books (we just put away the Halloween books and the Thanksgiving books have been out a while... then yesterday I decided to pull out the Christmas ones!) He also loves Dr. Suess books and train books a lot! When we go to the library he always has requests of what kinds of books he wants me to find (this makes it tricky...) He'll say "Today I want train books!" or "I want a rocket book today!" haha... it's not always easy to find what he's decided he wants ;)

I am always impressed at how much he actually understands what I'm reading to him... I'll stop and ask him questions about what's going on and most of the time he can tell me! We're working on our predicting skills, it's cute to hear what he "thinks might happen". The other thing he's started doing is making sure I read all the words to him... if I try to skip the title page or dedication page and tell him the story starts on the next page, he'll say "No, look mommy there's words!" I love it! :) I love that even though I left a job that I really love (teaching), I still have the opportunity to do it every day at home with my own kids!