There are Two More

Ok, I have such a silly head when I'm pregnant. You can ask my friend Regina, I have serious pregnant brain. One day I called her FIVE times in a row to ask her the SAME question. No joke.

I left out two of Auburn's favorite books, which is ironic because last night these two books were the requests:

9) Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse

(Thanks Bacon Bits! Auburn calls this book "Mama" when she wants to read it...which is obviously confusing and frustrating for her when I think she is just saying my name....)


10) The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss

Auburn's Top Eight Books

This is a list that is in no particular order, I just wrote down the ones she makes me read all the time. I must say though, she has (very) good taste.

1) Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

2) Showdown at Slickrock by Pat Bagley
(special thanks to the Sultz family for helping us find this one. Aww, shucks!)

3) Jonah and the Whale by the Bible

(This is not a joke. We have a Christian book of this story and she loves it more than the other ones. After we get done reading it she asks me to sing the prophet song about Jonah. Every time.)


4) The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle


5) The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton
(Thanks John and Susy!)



6) The Wheels on the Bus by Raffi



7) The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
(This book is in my top 10 children book recommendations. It is also Dad's current favorite, and would fit many different age ranges. The illustrations are amazing as well.)



8) Peepo! by Janet and Allen Ahlberg

The Popper

Auburn loves walking to the park with her Popper.

Bottoms Up

One of my personal favorite sleeping poses.

I think Auburn look like me

SEE! We BOTH look like babies!

Prudent Baby

I follow lots of crafty-mom blogs; some are more crafty and some are more mommy, but Prudent Baby is more of both. She has written a book, Prudent Advice, and she shares a piece that I've been pondering...

"Live alone for a period of time.
I love living with you and your father; I also cherish the years I spent living alone. You shouldn't go from being someone's daughter to someone's wife to someone's mother"

I like this. I like it a lot. My time of living alone (with roommates) was invaluable in the person I am today. I have friends; some of these friends know me outside of my current housekeeping/well-behaved child/primary teaching persona. And I really like that. I really like that someone in the world remembers me as an individual, not attached with a sister/mother/baby/husband.

I love my friends, all of them, but I just wanted to say a little special thanks to my 303 roommates for being my friends.

I also really like that she says....

"Leggings are not pants"

...need I say more????

Cute Sleeper

It's always a surprise what you'll find!

Fwd: Let it be known...

(from last Sunday)

Let it be known that today is a very sad day in history. It is the last Sunday that I get to take Auburn with me to Sunday school and Elder's quorum. Next week she goes to nursery. Sad.

Born to Run

by Christopher McDougall

This book was fantastic! Well thought out, thoroughly interesting, this book balanced research with personal experience. McDougall has a website which shows his TED talk (which is 20 minutes long) if you want a brief intro to the reasons behind barefoot running.

I agree with many, many things McDougall reports in his book. Mainly: running should be enjoyable. If you're not enjoying it, you're doing it wrong. In high school I had direct experience with this; when I was playing soccer I could run for miles. I enjoyed playing soccer so much that the running part of it wasn't a problem.

Did you know 8 out of ever 10 runners is hurt every year? For something that should come naturally to us (and did for thousands of years) it is one of the highest injury prone sports out there. Running shoes did not come to fruition until the late 1800's, early 1900's. And if I keep talking I'm going to tell you everything the book does. Go read it!

Stats:
There are several swear words, when McDougall is quoting others. There are a couple of what I would call "gross" scenes, but nothing that I feel personally effected my emotions.

It's just under 300 pages, and was easy to pick up (the research wasn't overwhelming or hard to follow).