It’s here! Christmas is here!!
(So is santa baby, it seems.)
This is us signing off for the holidays. We’ve been so blessed this year and we’re really thankful for all the friends we’ve made through the blog, the love and kindness we’ve received from all of you. Thanks for sharing our lives and we hope that in some small way, this little blog has brought some joy and laughter to yours.
Here’s wishing you a wonderful time filled with love and peace and joy.
Merry Christmas!!
You guys! We just found the best kids books ever. Ok, we found it a while back and I only finally managed to get around to talking about it.
We’ve been trying to get the kids to fall in love with reading since they were born and on the scale of being interested in books, Tru has mostly been on the end of “not entirely impressed”. We got them tons of Dr. Seuss, Julia Donaldson, Oliver Jeffers, and he does sort of join in our reading sessions but often with very little enthusiasm.
And then a friend bought them a book from the Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems.
Total gamechanger.
Tru loved it. He almost never voluntarily picks out books to read on his own but these days, we often spy him sitting on the couch with a book in his hand and a smile on his face and I AM SO THRILLED to see my son in love with words (and pictures!). He thinks they’re hilarious and he’ll be giggling to himself while he reads. Did I mention that he’s reading them on his own? He still struggles with some words but his reading has improved tremendously since he started on these books and yes, I can’t stop raving.
The husband was so impressed he went out and bought the entire series from book depository.
You know what? We love these books so much I’m doing a giveaway – just a little something on the house. I have two of Truett’s favorite elephant and piggie books up for grabs. Just leave a comment below with your favourite kid’s book of all time and two winners will be chosen randomly. Contest ends at 11.59pm on Friday, 27 December.
