Katherine, in
the evening, just before bedtime, it’s our special time to spend together. You
and me, snuggled up together on the couch in the living room, reading stories. It’s
a wonderful way of winding down your day and sharing our love of reading
together.
Often the
reading time also serves as snack time, having some sweet fruit just before
bedtime. Depending on the night you may ask for strawberries, apples, banana…
or like tonight – oranges. You munch on your snack while I read to you and
often you pause to offer daddy and me a piece of fruit as well (yes, that makes
us smile every time).
Some nights we
are reading German stories, and other nights English ones. I love that you
effortlessly understand either language and we can mix it up any way we feel
like.
It’s up to you
to pick the stories we read every night and right now you are really enjoying alphabet
stories (you are so interested in letters). I recently bought a set of little
story books, each featuring a different letter of the alphabet – this of course
gives you 26 different stories to choose from. Tonight we were reading about Elvin
the Elephant, Nate the Newt, Seal’s Silly Sandwich, Rosie Rabbit’s Radish and the
tales of the Bubble Bear. If you kept count, there were 5 stories tonight. Why
5? Because 5 is a number you can show really well with your hand and as you
were picking different books (by showing me each single theme letter on another
book cover), you kept referring back to your handing showing the number 5 until
we had 5 books (I tried to stop at 3, but that didn’t fly).
I admit, even if
it’s already later than your bedtime, I am easily persuaded to read “just one
more book” with you. And you are very good at persuading!
You are teaching
me that feeding our mind is as important as feeding our body. There are books
everywhere in our house; your daddy and I have been adding to this collection
for many years and since you came into our lives, we have added many children’s
books. I am excited to share my love of reading with you… and I am grateful for
every evening we have together to snuggle up on the couch with some good stories.
I love you always and forever.
