Sesame Street

Emily gave Anna a box of books from when she was a kid.  Annalise loves the Sesame Street books that were in with them.  The first thing she wants to do each day is read at least one of them.  These books go on walks with us, in the car, to the potty and pretty much everywhere we go!  Anna even sleeps with them!  Thanks, Em!

Still Reading

Annalise still has yet to watch anything on TV.  I don't discourage her from it, she just doesn't really have an interest in it beyond a few minutes (like 2 minutes).  At times I put on Elmo or something just to see what she will do and every time she will watch for a few seconds and then want to do something else.  I will take it as long as I can!  It is not that she doesn't have the attention span, she still continues to look at books for long periods of time and desires to be read to for a large part of the day.

 Who's reading to who?

 Perusing If You Give a Pig a Pancake, one of her favs.

"Hey, no more pictures!"

I love how you can see how mullet-like her hair is here.  The back just keeps getting longer and longer while the sides and top are growing, just not as fast as the back!

A Book Basket or a Seat?

Apparently Annalise feels that it is both!

Reading With Daddy

Annalise and her Daddy shared some good books tonight before bead.  Here they are enjoying one of her favorites, her "Sheep Book", as she calls it.  This girl loves her books and still does not watch TV for more than 30 seconds but will look at books with you for 1/2 hour or an hour at a time!  Hopefully she will continue to love books like I do (even though I have only read 2 this summer so far =(!  There are many more I want to read though!).

Reading

One of Anna's favorite things to do is look at books.  Lately she has been pulling her little chair right next to her books in the living room and has been sitting quite sometime looking at them.  When she pulls her chair over and sits down, she usually goes "Hmmmmmmmmm" when she is making her selection!  In these pictures she was just kind of being silly because I had the camara so you won't see much perusing going on here.

Recipes and Reading

I often clip recipes from magazines or find ones I like on the internet and print them out. Most of the time though, I stash them in my recipe books and because they are not convenient to page through I forget about them and end up cooking the same things repeatedly. While cleaning out the kitchen pantry I found a bunch that I have collected and have never tried. I decided that I am going to start a new recipe binder and my goal is to make one new meal a week and two new desserts a month. I am so excited. Seriously. I am.
Also, since May when I finished my Master's Degree, I have been able to start reading for pleasure again which has been wonderful!!!! Since the end of May I have read Multiple Blessings by Kate Gosselin, Amazing Grace by Danielle Steele, You've Been Warned by James Patterson and Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clarke. I just started a new James Patterson.
Anyway the point of this post is to ask if anyone has any recipes or books they recommend trying let me know!