
Weekend read for the kids!
When I discovered I was pregnant with Elliott, my first baby purchase was a children’s book. That might explain a lot about the number of children’s books we have in our home. And while I’m not going to start lecturing on the importance of reading to your kids (IT’S REALLY IMPORTANT), let’s just say I practice what I preach in the reading department. As a teacher of middle schoolers, I can pretty much tell if my students were read to as children or not. And I carry that reminder home with me everyday which means my daughters read books frequently.
For Ellie’s birthday last week, half her presents were books. And not presents from us, but our friends and family. We just love us some books. And so I thought I’d share what Ellie is loving right now and what I’m reading a lot of since she’s loving it but can’t actually read yet (slacker).



Aren’t books great?!
We started reading to our kids litereally when they were infants and collected hundreds of books for them. Bedtime became a fun ritual with them selecting a book and my husband and I reading to them every night. And you better believe there are payoffs: their reading comprehension is extremely high, they are better at spelling, they are excellent writers, and they score high on standardized testing. We LOVE books around our house and always enjoyed letting the kids pick out books that were especially interesting to them to keep them engaged.
I agree Diane, it’s so important! I (still) read out loud to my middle schoolers everyday and they love it.
Lilly is slightly obsessed with books and Llamas. I’ll definitely have to pick up one of these for her. She will freak!
She’s going to love them–Llama Llama is one fun dude. 🙂