More Bookish Thoughts...

A few favourites from the brand new Awesome book:

* Picking the fastest-moving line at the grocery store checkout
* Eating anything from your own garden
* When that social event you didn't want to go to gets canceled
* Fitting every last thing in the dishwasher
* Carrying all the grocery bags in from the car in one giant trip
* That one car that randomly travels with you on the highway for a really long time.

And a few of Eliot's personal additions:

Tummy Time on the big bed

Kisses from Holly

Dancing with Mama J

Celebrating in Threes

It's Good Friday...It's Earth Day...It's Eliot's half birthday!

Almost ready to help weed!

Fingers crossed for more strawberries this year

Cherry blossoms

Story Time Again

Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum...Gotta love Dr. Seuss!  I literally walk down the street reciting this rhythmic book in my head.  Eliot loves it too and always laughs from beginning to end.  I imagine it will become a great comfort read when he gets older.

A very sweet catalogue of inappropriate pets!  Eliot can't quite lift the flaps yet but he smiles when we do it for him.  It will be fun to watch him learn the story and make predictions about which animal is hidden on the next page.

So...many...books!

Soul Mates

Our friend Erika came to visit last week from Toronto with her parents, her fiancé and her son, Daniel, who is 6 days older than Eliot. Needless to say, the babies had a ball and the adults had even more fun watching them!  A big thank-you to the Buechner family from Eliot for the toys and books and from his Mamas for the lovely casserole dish.

Baby swap!

So grown up

Friends for life

A Whole New Menu

Another big day yesterday: Eliot had his first taste of solid food!  I can't imagine that rice cereal tastes like much but he seemed to tolerate it with only slight disquiet.

OK, I'll try it

Hmmm, not so sure!

Can I have some milk now?

Story Time Again

The summary on the back page of Where Is the Green Sheep? reads: "The story of many different sheep, and one who appears to be missing."  I couldn't have said it better myself!  As well as teaching about opposites, this book has humour, mystery and sweet, whimsical illustrations.

Can you find the green sheep?

More Bookish Thoughts...

Pirates. Trash. Fish. Destiny. Maps.  A village, “inhabited by thirty-six people, five thousand sheep and an indeterminate number of dogs.” What Nikolski lacks in plot, it certainly makes up for in uniqueness of theme and setting.  Throughout the novel, the three protagonists remain ignorant of their biological connection but are inexorably linked by nomadism and idiosyncratic obsessions.

Noah, an archaeology student, Joyce, a fish-store clerk and an unnamed used bookstore employee all emerge from far-fetched, dysfunctional childhoods as rootless adults living in Montreal.  Dickner's characters lack depth and develop little; his saving grace is a whimsical, quirky style that ultimately produces a mostly enjoyable read.