A new tradition

This week Ezri and I went to Anderson’s Bookshop and gave a gift to their holiday Angel Tree. I’ve been giving to this book charity since I moved to Downers Grove in 2001.  We found a girl about Ezri’s age (8 mos. named Dorothy) and picked out a book present for her. She got a Very Hungry Caterpillar toy (because at 8 months you need something fuzzy and mouthable) and the board book of The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. I picked out a teenager and got some paperbacks for her. I am hoping we can pick a child in need around Ezri’s age each year and eventually she will help me pick out the books to give.

In her own reading habits, Ezri is still all about fuzzy and textured books this week. A current favorite is Quack! Quack! Baby Touch and Feel from Priddy Books. It features textured barnyard animals and as a bonus some of the text on each page is also fuzzy. It’s like they created a fuzzy font just for Ezri.

She’s also become a big fan of pointing these days including pointing at books and things in books (especially the cats for some reason).

Here she is pointing.