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“Read I book!”
Jan. 9th, 2015 10:34 amARR learned what a photograph was fairly early on. We got a “who loves baby” chew-able photo album as a gift when he was very small, and to stem the tide of “Nobody!” jokes, we put some family pictures into it. He was able to identify pictures of his parents, grandparents and aunt early on.
Last year, as a Christmas present for said grandparents (both sets), Jethrien put together a photobook of ARR’s first year. It went over so well that she did it again this year. When our copy of the photobook arrived, we let ARR look through it. He liked that, so we let him look through the baby book, too.
This started a several-week obsession with the “I” books.* He knows which bookshelf we keep them on, and he’ll go straight for them when he’s in our bedroom. He had to read them with his grandparents multiple times. He has specific objects and people he notes on each page. And though I’m pretty sure he has them mostly memorized, he’ll still exclaim with delighted surprise when he turns the page and sees himself sitting in Papa’s lap.
Again.
I think we might need to make a mid-year book just to get some new material into the rotation. Or just have him pose with lots of big trucks—but that might be so much awesome in a single book that it blows his mind.
* Pronounced like “eye”; he hasn’t mastered “me” as a pronoun yet, but generally refers to himself as “I” rather than in the third person. I’m led to believe that’s unusual. The one exception is that he’ll say, “Carry you?” when he wants me to carry him someplace. He also hasn’t quite mastered prepositions, so the desire to sit with me at breakfast is often expressed as, “I eat table?” or “I eat daddy?”
Last year, as a Christmas present for said grandparents (both sets), Jethrien put together a photobook of ARR’s first year. It went over so well that she did it again this year. When our copy of the photobook arrived, we let ARR look through it. He liked that, so we let him look through the baby book, too.
This started a several-week obsession with the “I” books.* He knows which bookshelf we keep them on, and he’ll go straight for them when he’s in our bedroom. He had to read them with his grandparents multiple times. He has specific objects and people he notes on each page. And though I’m pretty sure he has them mostly memorized, he’ll still exclaim with delighted surprise when he turns the page and sees himself sitting in Papa’s lap.
Again.
I think we might need to make a mid-year book just to get some new material into the rotation. Or just have him pose with lots of big trucks—but that might be so much awesome in a single book that it blows his mind.
* Pronounced like “eye”; he hasn’t mastered “me” as a pronoun yet, but generally refers to himself as “I” rather than in the third person. I’m led to believe that’s unusual. The one exception is that he’ll say, “Carry you?” when he wants me to carry him someplace. He also hasn’t quite mastered prepositions, so the desire to sit with me at breakfast is often expressed as, “I eat table?” or “I eat daddy?”
