Books, Books, Books!

Sometimes, I think that Lexi has a lot of toys. She plays with them all on occasion, but given the choice, she'd take a book over anything. We both think that's pretty cool. She's always been like that. She became overwhelmed at her birthday party, but as soon as she got a set of books from our friends, life was good! It's also a great diversion when I need a couple minutes to finish up something, like dinner, to just put her on the floor with several books.

The ladies at the library says to never take a book away--creates bad feelings associated with books. They even encourage them to put them into their mouths to "explore". But I'm guilty of taking books away, sad to say. You see, when they say "let your kids devour books", I'm sure they didn't mean literally. Lexi takes it literally. Within a week of getting books for Easter, there were two big bitten off chunks missing. Within a week of her birthday, you would have thought they were hand-me-down books from years of wear, not brand new. I started putting books that she started chewing behind the couch, but she also just learned how to crawl up on the couch (As I'm writing, I just had to remove another book from her mouth!) and behind to find the contraband. We had to stop getting books with tear-able pages because it was inevitable that they WOULD be torn.
Pictures of Lexi with Books

April w/ Grandpa

February

March

September

Birthday 6-24

4th of July

This week

Daddy, read to me?

Yesterday
March with Mom's cookbook