When we were brand new parents to only 1 baby, we read bedtime books every night. Yes, to our newborn baby.
For a long stretch of time we read a series that was handed down to us from my husband’s mom. They were books he used to read when he was a kid called Sweet Pickles. The whole series is about animals that each have a specific trait- for example Vain Vulture, who loves to dress up fancy and get lots of attention- that they sometime deal with during their book. They’re definitely outdated and the characters sometimes do and say things us new-age gentle parents don’t really love, so we alter some lines slightly. As our baby has gotten older, we’ve worked our way through the series a few times. One of the times his favorite thing was to look at the inside cover where the map of the town is, and locate where each character lived. He could do this for ever and ever, especially when it was supposed to be bed time. So eventually we had to limit to 2 or 3 characters. In an effort to stall he started to point to several at a time and ask “Where do all these live?” And we would laugh and laugh at his cleverness. Now he thinks he is the funniest kid ever saying, “Remember when I was a baby and I’d say ‘Where do all these live?’” These silly, sometimes not so sensitive, old books are such a staple in my memories of my first baby as an only child.
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Sara T.
3/13/2023 06:27:16 am
Awwwww.... hold on to them for when they have babies.
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