Kid Sayings
My three-year-old son cracks me up. 
He is at the age where imagination controls everything. He can dream up the most incredible things, turning his coat into a superhero cape and a coloring page into a rolled up “light saber.” On the way home from day care, he’ll chatter on about his friends, periodically mixing in his own stories which may or may not be true. (killer bugs who tried to eat his friend Seth???) I can tell already he’s the son of a fiction writer. Sigh.
I ask him what he wants for breakfast and he replies, “Umm…probably just M&Ms.” When I explain that this is not a breakfast option (okay, so who WOULDN’T want M&Ms for breakfast), he says, “Okay. I’ll just have cookies then.” I love the matter-of-fact attitude.
What I love most of all is watching him with his sister when they don’t realize I’m there. He’ll kick back on the floor of his room, his feet propped against the bed, with a book in his hands. His sister will crawl over to see what he’s doing, and then she’ll get a book of her own to read, right next to him. Hers, of course, is the engrossing title “Yellow” which has a thought-provoking plot about ducks and lemons. His favorite titles range from “Stellaluna” to “One Dark Night.”
What favorite children’s books did you grow up with?
Historical trivia (yes, I forgot yesterday’s!!)–The vacuum cleaner or “hoover” was invented in 1899. The early models were huge and drawn by horses, like fire engines. If you wanted your house vacuumed, you ordered the cleaner, and the driver stopped the horses outside your door. The hoses were passed into the house through the windows, and the operators attached nozzles to the tubes to vacuum out the dirt.
Michelle posted in Parenting @ 6:40 am | Viewed 1750 times
Sharon Says:
Ohhh I had SO many fave books growing up. I was a reading machine. We didn’t own a television in my house until I had almost graduated from highschool.
Just a few of the series I enjoyed.
Bobbsey Twins
Happy Hollisters
Trixie Belden
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
Three Investigators
Little Women
Little House Series
Secret Garden
Summer of the Monkeys
oh I could go on and on but I’ll spare you
Jill Shalvis Says:
My kids loved Stellaluna, but I think they’re favorite was If You Give A Mouse A Cookie … Oh and The Wild Things!
Tori Says:
Sharon! I don’t have to list all my favorite books now. You already covered them.
Though I don’t think I ever read The Secret Garden or Summer of the Monkeys (never even heard of that one!). Everything else, however, is spot on.
Sharon Says:
Tori, you must MUST read Summer of the Monkeys. Wilson Rawls wrote it. Most people’s favorite by him is Where the Red Fern Grows, but Summer of the Monkeys is one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
Amy K. Says:
When I was really young, I loved Dr. Seuss and the Berenstein Bears books. I also remember devouring the Frog and Toad books, and later the Little House books. Oh, and in first grade, my “favoritest book ever” was called A Letter From Amy. I don’t even remember the story. I just checked it out every week from the school library because it had my name in it.
Michelle Says:
Sharon–I never read Summer of the Monkeys! Now I feel deprived.
I’ll have to go look for that one.
I had a ton of Nancy Drew books. I’d love to know who the real authors were of some of my favorites. I loved the Bagpipes one best.
Amy–too cute!
I loved Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. Still do, actually…
Suzanne Says:
Damn. I think Sharon has them all covered.
Man, your kid is cute!!!
kacey Says:
Wow, Sharon’s list is mine. Well, except for a few. And I devoured all the biographies in the juvenile section…the ones that were written like fiction novels.
Okay, and I confess, I’ve been collecting old Trixie Beldon books at flea markets the last couple of years…
Tori Says:
Michelle, The Clue of the Whistling Bagpipes was written by Harriet S. Adams. She and Mildred A. Wirt (which was pseudonym in itself, now that I think about it) wrote the majority of the Nancy Drew books. Except the ones written in the last 20 years or so, I think.
Kacey, I still have all my Trixie Belden books. I even still read them now and again.