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We skipped going to Smith Memorial Playhouse this morning because I am coming down with a cold. I don’t think it is coincidental that this cold arrived shortly after our visit to daycare!

I needed to pick up some books at the library– they’ve been on hold for almost 2 weeks. Instead of walking the few blocks in the cold rain, I drove. Yes, I drove to the library. I felt silly, but I also felt dry.

Lilia likes to play with the children’s computers, and I usually try to turn them off and pretend they aren’t working, but today, I let her look at Stellaluna, which was sweet and sad, and now Lilia knows all about bats and mangoes.

Joe has been encouraging Lilia to rhyme. One of the activities in National Geographic Little Kidsis to complete a rhyme:

Open it up and take a look. It’s time to read your favorite…

(choices are… a paint palette, a soccer ball, and a book) and

Scarves and hats and coats and mittens. Winter clothes are as soft as…

(lemon? pinwheel? kittens!) However, Lilia always answers CATS, so Joe rearranged the rhyme so she gets it right… Scarves and coats and mittens and hats…

I asked the librarian for some suggestions for rhyming books. She said that about 90% of the books in the children’s section rhyme, but only about 10% are any good at it– often they try to cram in too much or try to make things rhyme that shouldn’t rhyme. We came home with three rhyming books:

Sheep in a Shop (Cute rhyme, pictures are cute, but a little busy);

Under My Hood I Have a Hat (cute pictures, easy rhyme, winter theme);

One Ted Falls out of Bed (okay pictures, counting theme, annoying rhyme…in what accent does dolls rhyme with trolls? Please? I can’t stand a non-rhyming rhyme!)

We also brought home Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert, who also wrote Snowballs– one of the books Melissa sent Lilia for Christmas.
Here’s a picture of Lilia and her Grampop reading it on Christmas day: