My bookish boy
It's still light out at Ben's bedtime these days, so the deal is that after I read him one book, he can read in bed a little bit. I'm always curious, when I check on him on my way to bed, to see what he's fallen asleep with. Lately, it's been his picture encyclopedia; he's interested in the planets, can name them in their proper order, tell you which one's a gas planet, etc. Meanwhile, I'm thinking, gas planet? did they know that there were gas planets in the 70s? because that's certainly not something I picked up in elementary school.
Tonight, I could barely see Ben in his bed for all the books he had stacked up next to him. Books we haven't read in ages, like Margaret Wise Brown's ; Who Am I? and , his riddle flap books; ; Bob the Builder: Scoop; all his Dan Zanes cd cases (which are nice little picture books themselves); and . I wanted to scoop them out from under his arm, but I hesitated. Maybe he's absorbing some information while he sleeps. Maybe he'll surprise me in the morning with some new riddles.
Tonight, I could barely see Ben in his bed for all the books he had stacked up next to him. Books we haven't read in ages, like Margaret Wise Brown's ; Who Am I? and , his riddle flap books; ; Bob the Builder: Scoop; all his Dan Zanes cd cases (which are nice little picture books themselves); and . I wanted to scoop them out from under his arm, but I hesitated. Maybe he's absorbing some information while he sleeps. Maybe he'll surprise me in the morning with some new riddles.
2 Comments:
Oh, boy, if you were into planets, you certainly knew about gas giants in the 70's! The big new discoveries since we were kids are:
1. Rings around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, and not just Saturn.
2. Volcanoes on Io.
3. Pluto has 3 moons.
4. There's a 10th planet, tentaively named Xena.
And around the time Sasha and Ben will be 14, our first probe will arrive at Pluto--we'll finally get some good pictures!
Nick sleeps with books, too. He used to put them under his pillow and then wonder why he woke up with a crick in his neck!
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