Boy oh boy, do I love books!
Hi everyone! Decker J here once again, to tell you about my latest obsession - books! I just can’t get enough of them! “Now, wait a second, Decker,” you may be saying right now, “you’ve always liked books - so what’s so new about that?”. Well, over the past few weeks I have discovered that not only are books the best thing in the world when you’re cuddling with your mom or dad, but if they aren’t available - you can read them ALL BY YOURSELF. That’s right - you don’t always need a grownup to keep going with your recreational reading! I know most of my books pretty much by heart at this point, and if I read a new one I can commit it to memory after a few go-throughs as well. So…if I want my mom to read me “The Big Road Race” or “The New Baby”, and she’s not free because she’s busy doing something kinda boring like laundry or something, then I can just sit down and read them out loud to myself! I know some of the stories so well that I don’t even need a book - I’ll just start reciting them in the car while we’re driving along! (It’s much more interesting than that show about KCBS that my mom listens to - I love letters, but that show is just boring! Lots of grownups talking, and no singing about the letters!).
Yup, I love my books. So one of my favorite things to do at night now is to bring a whole pile of them downstairs with me, and then read them on the couch to my folks. They’re really good at multi-tasking, so if they’re doing other stuff like dishes or eating dinner or talking to each other, I know they’re still paying attention at least a little bit. I like to think I provide ambient background noise! Then, when I go to bed, after my dad reads me my bedtime stories, he lets me pick one book to take into bed to read with me - how awesome is that? Did you know you can read in bed? Woo hoo!
I know all my alphabet letters now (I can even name them if they are all out of order!), and it looks like if you arrange them in different ways, they seem to be the stuff on the page that grownups look at when they read a book. I think I may have discovered a new secret code - and I can’t wait to crack it!
So let’s hear it for books! They are way fun and you can take them with you almost anywhere!