Books at our house

 

To say that we like to read at our house is an understatement.  We love books and the like.  We read before every nap time and before every bed time.  We read when we want to snuggle, to learn about something, or to laugh.  We read in church, in the car, in the bathroom, and at breakfast.  I recently started reading aloud to draw Little Lady out of her lovely floor-kicking tantrums.  

I saw an idea online about taking photos of home libraries to capture how they grow - just like children.  Our home library has expanded exponentially since we got married and keeps on growing. 

We have books on the big shelves (the left shelf is kid books and the right is grown up books): 

We have books in each child's room on their night stands, next to which is a chair where we read:

We have books in our breakfast basket at the table:  

 And we also have books in the car, and on our toy shelves:

Children who love books are never disappointed at our house:

Mini Me, age 14 months

Little Lady, age 12 months

Awesome hair!

We even read the dictionary to our children!  (This was a one-time and somewhat odd event although Mini Me thought it was pretty fun and I'm sure he'd listen to his daddy read the dictionary again.)

Awesome glasses!

Exposure to books is as important to me as serving meals with all the food groups.... that is to say, I don't go a day without doing either.  In fact, when I became a mother of two I promised myself that I would do three things for my second baby "come hell or high water": I would serve healthy food, I would read to both children every day, and I would keep up on the baby books and journal I write for each child.  So far I've kept my promise!  I don't know if either child would actually go to sleep without being read to... books are serious business in this house!

Our home library is big and wonderful and we love when it grows as we add new books to our collection (my husband and I are still amazed at how many children's books we can recite by memory so new material is good for us).  It will be interesting to see how our home library changes as the children grow.  Good bye board books, hello young adult lit!  

It is one of my greatest hopes that all four of us will be life long book lovers and it feels like we are well on our way.