. Even though I would consider Noah an antsy child, there is one time he will sit still without me forcing him. He will bring a book to me out of his toy box and request, "uh!?!" In baby language, that means "read this to me!?!" Carle's The Very Busy Spider (Board Book) is his number one request. We have a rule in our family that Mommy will only read a book two times during a segment of the day. That means we read this book twice in the morning, twice after nap time, and twice after dinner. This does not include the times that Dad will read this book (and others) to him too.So, even though I just about have this book memorized, I am very grateful for it. Noah loves it and thus loves reading in general. The Very Busy Spider has taught him at 16 months of age many animal noises and he now recognizes what those animals look like. Noah already knew how to bark like a dog, but now he knows how to neigh like a horse (that's his favorite), moo like a cow, baa like a sheep, maa like a goat, oink like a pig, meow like a cat, quack like a duck, and cock-a-doodle-doo like a rooster (sounds more like doo-doo-doo-doo-doo). He hasn't figured out how to "whoo" like an owl, but that's the last page, so I his attention is thus spent on getting another book for his Mommy to read to him.
Obviously making animal noises is a popular thing for a baby to do. Does everyone else have this book too? How did you teach your children how to make animal noises?
3 comments:
This is one of my favorite books. (I would probably read it at least six times a day if I owned it :-)
Joshua went through a stage when we read that book several times a day... now he's really into "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"... he likes to say "But he was....still hungry" after every fruit. We LOVE the Eric Carle books. He also likes "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?"
AND Joshua learned his animal sounds that way too! Except the elephant, since it's not in that book. But I think that is the best way for them to learn... from a book!
By the way... Noah is soooo stinkin' cute. :)
Love your blog. <3 Thank your lucky stars he doesn't like "Curious George" books. I finally hid all of ours because I HATED them soooo much. They were too long and gave the kids too many ideas for getting into trouble. lol I can recite from memory all the Dr. Seuss books. People are amazed but really...after a couple of kids...you will be able to recite LOTS of books!!! :)
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