Book Lover

I am posting these pictures, not because they are great pictures, but because they say a lot about Katie right now.

First, notice that she is no longer in a crib or playpen as she used to be. She officially figured out how to climb out of it and I figured that I didn't want to fight her to stay in the crib just to fight her later on about staying in a bed. So, we just went to the bed. This one actually belongs to our neighbor but we're borrowing it because Ryan isn't quite ready to sleep on the top bunk.

She does get out of it, but doesn't try to leave her room. (I put up a little kid gate just to help remind her that she needs to stay in the room.) I don't mind if she gets out of bed because they don't really have toys in their room - only books. I will say that last night she woke up in the night crying and bawling for me, but never got out of her bed to come find me.

The next thing to notice (but how could you miss?) is the myriad of books that she insists on sleeping with. She doesn't give us much trouble going to bed at night because she REALLY enjoys flipping through a bunch of books until she gets tired and falls asleep. We'll read to Ryan in his bed 2 feet away, but often Katie prefers to go over and look at books on her own.

She also carries them around all over the place. She usually has at least 4 books at a time and asks me to read them to her every 30 minutes or so. She is anti-discriminatory and will flip through big books or small books or board books or whatever. She also carries around that blanket with her all over the place. That just started.