“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
-Emilie Buchwald
I realize I keep going back to this, but it’s our blog and I can write what I want to. And what I want to write about is how well the kids continue to get along. They play very well together; what one does the other will do, even when doing things they aren’t supposed to, like crawling on the table in the living room or spreading toys all over the carpet.
As a child, reading was on of my greatest pleasures. It still is to this day, and we really want to instill the children with same the love for books. That’s not an easy thing to do in the digital age, with big TV’s on the wall and at least seven devices capable of playing games or videos in the living room area alone. So it’s nice to see James more interested in books than TV. The pictures below were all taken within the past week, and it’s not uncommon to see James walking around the house with a book in hand looking for a parent. If you are the one he finds he will make you sit down, crawl in your lap, shove a book in your hand, and give you the sign for “help”. As long as he wants to read, there will never be a lack for waiting laps.
Here are some pictures of James with food and drink. He’s a sneaky little guy, he will grab any food he can get his hands on and run off somewhere to devour it. But when caught, he’s always willing to share. He’ll share with Ashlyn, us, grandparents, pets, and ants. What a nice boy. Well, he squishes the ants afterwards, so maybe he’s just a regular boy.
When I mentioned to someone at work that we had to, by law, go to the pumpkin patch this weekend for pictures and the yearly choosing of the pumpkin, they looked at me like I was crazy. I was then informed there is no such law, but why take the risk? Not only are we able to sleep at night knowing we are law abiding citizens, but we get to have fun watching the kids crawl over pumpkins and bales of hay. We picked up a beauty of a pumpkin this year and both the kids selected their own smaller pumpkin. It should be interesting to see how they all turn out.
