dual personalities

Lately, Katie’s favorite activity has been unstacking her basket of books and surrounding herself with the books.

She is remarkably strong and can topple the entire basket over when she feels like it. I am so amused by this and love to observe her fascinated inspection of every different book. So many shapes and sizes! (And tastes — mmm, cardboard.)

This activity is one among many that shows how Katie is growing more independent and willful. She knows what she wants and she goes for it! She still can’t crawl forward when reaching for different things, but we are getting closer to that every day. (And we are bracing ourselves. A playpen has been purchased!)

I thought about writing a quiz, à la my mother’s movie quizzes, based on Katie’s inspiring interest in her board books, but I wasn’t sure how that would land. Would I quiz you on quotes from baby classics (“‘If you become a bird and fly away from me,’ said his mother, ‘I will be a tree that you come home to.'”) or from adult classics (“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.”)? Well, you are off the hook, because I do not have the bandwidth for either version.

Happy reading!