Bedtime Stories

Jesse LOVES storytime at night. He has several favorites that we have to read from each evening. Among those titles, it's Llama Llama Red Pajamas, Llama Llama Mad At Mama, But No Elephants, Henry's Happy Birthday and Ten Hungry Monsters.

Jesse obviously can't read yet, but he's really learning to memorize. In fact, he can usually say each of these five books along with me (and others, too), so last night I tried to capture the cuteness of it.

Well, when the camera came out it was, "no, mama, YOU read it!" I ended up just videotaping the book as I turned the pages and read. He helped a bit, but it's not as good as he usually does. Still the cuteness factor wins out.

Here is an excerpt from "Ten Hungry Monsters":





So I bring out
1 Jug of Apple Juice,
2 Loaves of bread
3 bowls of spaghetti that they dump upon my head
4 purple eggplants
5 pickled pears
6 orange pumpkins they climb up and down like stairs.
7 roasted turkeys
8 pizza pies
9 watermelons that they wish were twice the size
10 jars of peanut butter, but not a speck of jam (cause I want every monster mouth shut tighter than a clam!).