Parents As Reading Partners

This month is PARP month! For those of you without kids in school currently, this is a big national initiative to promote literacy. It stands for Parents As Reading Partners. Among the many fun activities, Malcolm's preschool has asked parents and kids to read together at least fifteen minutes each day.

To supplement our usual bedtime stories, we've added "couch time" to our day. Malcolm gets to pick out three books, and we cuddle on the couch together and read them. Today for couch time, Malcolm arrived with an armful of three books -- a Dr. Seuss classic, one of the dinosaur series, and . . . his dictionary.

"Mommy, read this one!" he commanded, handing me the 112 page volume, titled "A child's first dictionary."

Lest I get any bright ideas, he added, "And don't skip any pages!"

Sledding Adventures Part 2

Sledding Adventures

I went sledding for the first time!

Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Mike took me. That's Daddy with the red hat, and Uncle Mike has the zebra parka. That's me with the sled!

It was a little cold. "This much cold!"

Whee! Whoa!!! Whee!!!!!!

That's a really big hill!

I'm ready for my hot chocolate now!