One of J’s favorite things is to read books with his “peeps” (our name for most loved stuffed animals in our house). We’ve got quite a collection going at this point, and he’ll actually find peeps he need to adopt to read stories! This is a great idea for gift giving as well. Here are some of our favorites:
You can find all of these on Amazon (no advertisement, just where I found them).
What did you say you’re reading again?
Well if you’re A, you’re reading anything Stuart Gibbs’ kid series (Spy School, Moon Base Alpha, & Funjungle). He’s read almost every one.
If you’re J you’re reading Narwhal & Jellyfish, Michael Hall books, and Bob books:
And B has jumped both feet into my love of getting library books and is currently reading The Watchman & The Dresden Files series.
And finally, as usual I’m reading several books at once:
There’s a new Mary Poppins movie coming out, and this one is supposed to be more in line with P.L. Travers vision of her book series. I love the original movie Mary Poppins, so I was intrigued to see how different the book character is. I’m going to say, not that different…perhaps meaner?
I really enjoyed Bob Goff’s book Love Does, so Love Lives Here, by his wife, is on my list.
I’m still steadily making my way through Agatha Christie’s books and I realized I really need to start keeping a list, because I’m forgetting which ones I’ve read.
Goodnight June is a book that fantasizes the back story of the book Goodnigth Moon. I read this book everyday to A until he was one (and beyond), so I had to add it.
Ruth Reichl’s Delicious is one of her books that I realized I hadn’t read, so I added it to my library holds this week!
Happy reading!
This is one if my favorite parts of every morning. J comes in with his daily menagerie of peeps cuddles up at the end of our bed and likes me to pat his back while he wakes up:
This is a picture of our neighborhood geese that had babies! Check out their goslings:
Hopefully they stay together, unlike Jon and Kate.
This is the stack of library books that I picked up this week to try to attempt to keep up with A’s reading (and a few books for J and The Lion King DVD):
This is how J spent his time before TBall practice on Tuesday:
And this is how A spent his time:
While A is working on the next Bunnicula book…
B and I are also reading nightly. He is currently reading The Expanse after finishing Rice, Noodle, Fish and I’m currently working on Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah. I’ve also got a few other books to add to my May-June reading list:
Food and the City: A foodie book, I’m always on the search for a good one.
Let’s Pretend this Never Happened: A comedy, great for a beach read!
Rice, Noodle, Fish: I have to read this so I can catch up with everything B has discussed since he read it.
Sleeping Murder: I’ve read Hercule Poirot’s last case, so this summer I’m catching up with Miss Marple’s
The Moviegoer: This is a “caught my eye at the library” read. It won the national book award, so it has a good reputation behind it!
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying-Up: If you know me well, this is pretty much just a life affirming read for me. Ha!
My goal is to finish all six by the end of June!
So here our February round-up of some of our current reads!
I’m reading…
So far this is not my favorite. While it has some good thoughts, as a teacher I have a problem when someone cites wikipedia as a useful search engine (it’s not) and uses appeal to tradition fallacies. Plus I got a 100 on the quiz at the beginning. So boom. Parenting done. Just kidding. Not about the 100 part. I’m not playing around with quizzes.
Okay, so on to some of my favorites:
I keep thinking that I’m going to finish this book and it NEVER ends. Worse than that, I’m slightly obsessed with finishing the book and so I cannot put it down. I only have 100 pages left I think. Out of a lot.
The library book I have waiting in the wings…
I love non-fiction books, especially ones about cooking. I’m going to take a break from Sherlock Holmes to start this one. Maybe.
And what I read every morning:
My in-laws gave me this one year Bible for Christmas and I’m busily making my way through it. I’ve always wanted to read the Bible all the way through and this provides a great way to do that!
And on A’s list…
This is a series of mystery books that A is reading. The author has several other series, but these are A’s favorite so far.
And A is also reading:
The Ramona series. He thinks they are “very funny” and after reading Ramona the Pest he asked if there are are more that he could read about Ramona.
And we are reading J:
J is starting to read, so he likes having the element of chapter books like his big brother.
Besides Pokemon cards and DS games, the hot items on A’s Christmas list were books, books, and more books. Here are some of his latest must reads (and some of his “eh” choices):
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankeweiler. This was (and is) one of my favorite books, so I am so please how much he has loved it. The combination of a museum, adventure, and a mystery makes it a perfect read.
Geronimo Stilton (Fantasy Series). A has read through most of the original Geronimo Stilton books and has moved on to the lengthier fantasy series. He really likes books with animals as the main characters (and an adventure themed direction), so this fits right in…as does:
The Tale of Despereaux. This is one he’s getting for Christmas from my parents.
Peter Pan. I picked this one up at the library and he immediately dived into it. And then got half way through it and got really bored. However, we did learn the word “quixotic”. I’m using that on scrabble.
National Geographic Almanac. A is obsessed with all things almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, he loves facts and information.
Creating marble towers before church…
Creating an entire code system for the alphabet and numbers up to 15:
Going to Cabela’s to look at tents and being amazed by all of the taxidermy animals they have there:
(I mean, why are they fighting? Couldn’t they just as logically be eating a nice rabbit and some berries peacefully beside each other? Maybe they are arguing over who saw the fifty percent off hiking boots first.)
Making one of my two favorite dinner rolls:
Making honey lime enchiladas for dinner (not to go with the rolls, but I mean why not?):
Back to our system of me putting a bunch of books on hold at the library and then picking them up later in the week:
{J’s favorite has been I will Take a Nap!, A’s favorite is the Dinosaur Bones Encyclopedia, and I’m currently reading The Little Paris Bookstore and enjoying it so far}
And finally, playing hide and seek and eating snacks while waiting during A’s tennis lessons:
One of the branches of our local library is still one of my favorite places to visit. It’s a bit smaller than our main library, however, it’s going to get much bigger in the next few years. It’s where the boys have gone to story time, learned the love of checking out and returning books, and always know their favorite librarian will be there to check in on what’s new with them. On one particular visit, I was discussing with our librarian how A is looking for some new series of books to read. She of course had a few ideas….
I’ve got quite a few books on my reading list for this summer, and my latest edition of read it, reading it, and reading it next…
For me:
For A:
Is there anything better than a stack of books beside a bed? Love.