Ezri likes to identify the parts of her body.
One of her favorite new words is fingers.
Her favorite games include “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” and “This Little Piggy.”
So, it isn’t any wonder that the following books were hits with her.
A First Book All About You: Eyes, Nose, Fingers and Toes by Judy Hindley
The book explains the uses of different body parts. “Legs are for kicking.” “Feet are for STOMPING and suddenly – STOPPING!”
“Hands are to hold and pat and CLAP!” You get the idea. The accompanying illustrations by Brita Granstrom have enough detail to be interesting without so much detail that Ezri is overwhelmed. You will have to move and clap while reading the text, but that’s much of the fun.
My First Body Board Book by DK
This title begins with photos of babies with body parts labeled. Then there is a spread of different babies’ faces and another with different babies’ hair. There are pages with babies exploring using their sense. Ezri’s favorite is a baby tasting a cookie. She has now tasted cookies and likes to say, “cookie.” There is a page with photos of baby clothing to point at and identify. This is all around a good title to browse and talk about together.
Look at You! A Baby Body Book by Kathy Henderson was an early favorite of Ezri’s and is now back after a break as a fun book to look through. I discussed it first in this post.
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i love that her interest in naming body parts makes putting on sunscreen a kind of game. ‘let’s put some on your arm, ezri!’ ‘arm!’ ‘and on your legs’ ‘knee!’ 😀
Yes, it appears that you have made putting on sunscreen fun. To the point where, if the bottle is in sight, she’ll get it and bring it over and want to put some on, even if we aren’t going outside anytime soon.
::laugh:: my parents would find this hilarious given how hard it was to get /me/ to put sunscreen on between the ages of oh, prob’ly 5 and 17.
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