Reading Bear Books

Elijah loves his bear books (Polar Bear, Panda Bear, and Brown Bear, all by Eric Carle). Honestly, some days I'm relieved when they get lost for a while under the couch, just so I can go a few hours without reading them again! But E just loves all the animals, and I think it's cool to see him learning to say the names and make the sounds of so many of them (not too clearly yet, but he's getting there). Here's a couple of videos of us reading the bear books - a couple of times he runs off to find the piece of his animal puzzle that is the same as the animal in the book. He's always doing things like that. (Yes, "ai-ya" means elephant.) On Tuesday E was playing with one of his baby toys, a big stuffed block, and discovered a cartoon picture of a turtle (which hardly even looks like a real turtle) on the block and said, "tuh-tal,"and came running to find the turtle in the panda bear book. He had never seemed to be paying any attention to that turtle before, but I guess he was!