what Lucy is reading now

 For the last several weeks, Lucy has been all about books, all the time.

It started out with a song book that she liked to read only with Nana, and then a big book of colors that she liked to read only with Papa, and then it exploded from there. Now it's all books, all the time. She wants Goodnight Moon and Goodnight Gorilla and Hop on Pop, she'll turn the pages of the song book until you get to the one she wants, then once you start singing that one she'll turn the page and request another.

She can point to the red strawberry and the blue shoes, she touches the dog's nose and the cat's whiskers, and she can find the bunny on every page. Sometimes when she gets to the end of a book she gets really angry that there are no more pages to turn.  She brings her daddy a book to read to her in bed first thing in the morning, and the other day I caught her reading a book to her baby doll on the fireplace hearth.

As a book lover myself, I am glad to see her so voracious. The first week that Lucy was in daycare, one of the aunties said, "She sure does like to chew on books!" I'm glad she's finally found another use for them, even when I'm tired of singing the first two lines of 'Pop goes the Weasel' for the 35th time.