New Book

We joined the NYC Imagination Library Initiative. NYC has partnered with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, and if you sign up, you can get a book mailed to your child every month from birth until the age of five. We signed up about two months ago and got our first book in the mail today.

Tess wanted me to read the book to her two times in a row. After that, she sat on this chair and read through it to herself two times through. I was really impressed with how much of the story she had internalized. I started videoing about half-way into the book. She had been sitting their so absorbed in her reading that I thought I should perhaps capture it on video.



I especially like how she talks about the Little Blue Engine as "not bigger yet." It's interesting to me when she memorizes lines from books verbatim, but it's also interesting to me when she understands the meaning and then applies her own vernacular for the idea.