Lift the Flap Books

Lately James loves lift the flap sort of books. This makes perfect sense for an active little man. We like to look at the pictures and lift up all of the different flaps. Here are two of his current favorites.

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This is a really fun one that I think will last us a long time because it teaches numbers, colors,etc. We are not quite at that stage yet, but I always talk with him about the color, animals, and numbers. I found this one at Target.

2.I bought this one a few months ago thinking that he was not quite ready for it because it is actually a slide and find. I thought that the slides seemed a little hard for him. James has recently fallen in LOVE with cars so this one is perfect for him! We are working hard to help him realize that truck are trucks not cars... ha!

The Wednesday Sisters

The Wednesday Sister was our August book club book. This was a cute, easy read. It was fun for our book club to read because they are pretty similar to us. We are mostly 20 or 30 somethings who are newly married, newly mommied, etc.

This is the story of a group of women who met at the playground in 1968. They quickly realize that many of them love to write. So they begin their writing club. Of course being a book about a group of women there is drama that will follow. I loved the narrator because I related quite a bit to her.

This is a cute book and if you are at this stage of life you may also like it.

Read: August 2010

Pages: 304

The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

I had heard about this book when we visited Aaron's family and saw it was written by a Swedish author. Since my dad is Swedish this seemed really interesting to me! Wow! I personally loved it, but there were some pretty graphic parts {just as a disclaimer.}

This is the story of Mikael Blomkvist {how can I not love him his name is so close to my brothers, Mikael Ringqvist}, a journalist who is hired by a millionaire to figure out what happened to his niece. The catch is that the niece disappeared 40 years ago. There are many twists and turns and I loved this book. I may have liked this book as well because I recognized many of the places from my year living in Sweden. That was so fun!

I definitely recommend it! Just be prepared for some disturbing parts.

Read: July 2010

Pages: 600