Reading To Maggie.
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me. -Strickland Gillilan "The Reading Mother" Maggie loves books. Well, love doesn't even to begin to describe her relationship with books. She needs books, craves them. I spend hours everyday just rocking Maggie and reading her books. The picture above is a stack of books I read her this morning. She signs please-more after each book. Her little fingers point to the pictures and she loves to know the names of things and the sounds they make. I ask her to point to animals,apples,colors,shapes and she knows exactly what I am talking about. She knows so much, I believe, because of books. Her mind is a sponge right now, taking in everything and learning so much lately. She even wants to sleep with her books and reads them when she eats. Even though Maggie is not yet talking up a storm, her receptive language (the listening and underst...