Reading books

Reading books
Originally uploaded by Raspberry World.

Lately, Alex has really been getting into his books. He's started flipping through them and carrying them around with him, bringing the upstairs books downstairs and the downstairs books upstairs. We read to him a lot, and have since he was a tiny baby, but it seems like in the last few weeks he's really gotten a lot more interested in looking at books on his own.

Here he is with one of our favorites, The Rooster Struts, by Richard Scarry. The picture of the frog that you can see is one of the first pictures I ever saw him notice in a book, when he was just a few weeks old.

Thank goodness for board books, though, because he is pretty tough on them. He chews on them about as much as he looks at them, and when he does manage to get his hands on a "real" book (with paper pages) he can do some damage. Board books are a lot better for right now!