What we're reading...

Lizzy has always had a strong interest in books, when we first started reading books to her she loved it and would bring book after book after book to us so that we could read it to her. Now that Lizzy is mobile she has baskets of books in different corners of our home that she will go to when she wants to "read". Today she was intensely occupied with her books for almost 10 minutes without saying a peep! That's a long time for her to be occupied with any one thing. She's now started to go to specific pages and actually saying what's on the page like "green" on the page that is green, "puppy" on the page with the puppy, and "bee" on the page with a bee. What surprises me is that we never hand her a book we just set books and other learning toys out in their specific areas and Lizzy's own curiosity to learn and explore develops.

This is the book that mommy has been reading:
I just finished reading this book and I'm really glad I read it because it covers so many basic issues through pregnancy and newborn to age six. So far it's the best parenting book I have read. It is waldorf inspired and encourages children to be children, and parenting from the heart. I would recommend this book to anyone with small children especially anyone interested in the waldorf philosophy.