Old favourites

We went away for the long weekend to the beach and took a bundle of books with us - you know, the usuals: Who Sank the Boat, Spot Visits his Grandparents, Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy and The Wonky Donkey. We also took 2 new instant favourites, Rosie Sips Spiders and Hairy Maclary's Bone. I must hunt for another beach book along the lines of Grandpa and Thomas and the Green Umbrella - actually maybe Magic Beach would be good given our current penchant for Alison Lester, although from memory it's not about beaches.

Ian did the reading last night. The pile by the side of the bed revealed a few additions to the those listed above, including an In the Night Garden book which we read again when we woke up this morning (it's one about the Tomliboos playing a happy waving game which lends itself to some great sound effects... haaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooooooooo).

Tonight we revisited Things I Like, plus a few of those listed above which I really must start abbreviating, eg. WSTB, EDD and HMDD. We have developed a few little games for storytime - each story is prefaced with Benji saying "Ready... Set... GO!" which is a cue for me to open the first page really quickly with pretend fumbling and fussing which just cracks him up. And now he adds a grandiose "The End" to each story before he leans over to select the next cab off the rank.

I was thinking during Things I Like that I also need to find a story about cleaning up. Benji is going through a real bin and throwing-out-rubbish phase, evidenced by great fanfare when we turn to the bin page. There's also a bin in HMDD which draws especial attention. Oh, now I remember that we have Harry the Dirty Dog that Amy and Ned gave us with Stick Man so that's a good start. So, my shopping list for our next library visit, which is tomorrow (yay!), contains books about beaches and bins.