Library Book Love

Currently, some of Draya's favorite bed time stories are books that I picked up at the library. Mercer Mayer's Just Grandma and Me and Just Fishing with Grandma and Sandra Boynton's Going to Bed Book and Not the Hippopotamus (which we used to own but lost). They are two of her favourite authors. She is going to be heartbroken when it is time to return them! I have already renewed the Mercer Mayer ones once already. Mommy may have to do some shopping...

Time for a quick update

I was only gone for five days but a swear Draya seems to have grown-up a little bit. She is talking more coherently and listening a little bit better. She was quite well behaved at the airport when she and Daddy came to pick me up and have lunch yesterday. She liked the airplanes.
The two of them had lots of fun while I was gone, swimming and visiting Grandma & Grandpa. She did miss me but only every once in a while.
Sometimes Draya does the cutest/oddest things. Yesterday at dinner she kept pouring milk on the back of her hand, slurping it off, and then wiping her hand with a cloth... over and over again...
She also enjoys racing mommy from one side of the kitchen to the other.
In the tub Draya likes it when I squirt foamy soap on her toes... over and over again...
She also still loves to sing. Right now Head & Shoulders is her favourite - she breaks into it often.
Every night Draya & I climb into bed and read Sandra Boynton's Pajama Time - twice. She likes to point out who all of the animals are and what they say... "Sheep - baa, Lion - roar, Pig - oink". She has also recently been enjoying Hey Wake Up (same animals) Lizzy's Lion, You're My Little Love Bug (which also plays music), Clifford's Best Friend and many more of the other wonderful books in her collection. I am so glad to be raising a reader!

Speaking & Reading

Today Draya learned to say the word 'pizza', so we had pizza for lunch.
When we ask her if she wants to go wash her hands, she says 'hands' and toddles into the bathroom. I hold her up to the sink so that she can run her hands under the tap and help her with soap and rubbing them together. Then, she tilts her head and tries to drink from the tap. After we are done she goes finds her little towel that hand at the side of the counter and dries her hands by herself. Then I help her dry them a little bit more.
Draya has MANY favourite books. We have at least 2 story-times a day and more on weekends. One book that she is currently very fond of is The Old Steam Train. Each page has a little yellow duck hidden on it and she knows where at least half of the ducks are and can point them out all by herself.