Mommathon

This is a cute story with a good rhyme, but sometimes the illustrations are the star of a book and this is one of them. The illustrations are great and the looks on the animals' faces as they are trying to push Santa out of the chimney are hilarious! The combo of the story and the illustrations are going to make you want to read this story again and again. Ages 3-6.

This is a spin on the Goldilocks version, but with no Goldilocks. The bears make some gingerbread cookies, but they are too hot, so they go for a walk on Christmas Eve while they wait for the cookies to cool off. Someone comes to their house, however, while they are out and eats their gingerbread. There are clues while they are on their walk that Santa is in the neighborhood as well as clues left around the house that point to Santa being the one who ate the cookies. This is a cute story that is also a good book to work with kids on making predicitons. I got this one at the library. Ages 2-5.

Kids love it when you change the words to songs and that is what this book is all about. Songs such as "Our Friendly Mailman" set to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman", "Toy Catalogs" set to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" and "Something in My Brother's Underpants" set to the tune of "Winter Wonderland". Liam thought most of the songs were hilarious. Two thumbs up! I got this one at the library. Ages 3-8.

What to do, what to do...I have a friend whose oldest son is the same age as Liam and they have been "friends" since they were born. We have had playdates fairly consistently for the past almost five years. The problem lately has been that they have opposite schedules...Liam has preschool in the morning and the other kiddo has preschool in the afternoon, so they haven't seen each other in a while and they are getting to the age now where they have their own thoughts, ideas and interests and they want friends who have the same interests they do. In the middle of their playdate today Liam said, "This is the worst playdate ever!" Okay, maybe we need to work on our manners, but honesty is the best policy, right? We had a talk after the playdate today about how you might not like to play with everyone, but it is still important to be nice to everyone. He's growing up...

Liam has been playing with his Nativity set during naptime and I noticed that Mary and the angel were kind of off to one side with Baby Jesus. I asked him why they were over there and he said that Mary and the angel had to talk before Mary could decide when everyone else could come and see the baby. I guess Mary's a little possesive.

It took me to almost the end of the book to figure out why the author gave the book this title, but I think it is pretty fitting. This was a good book. It was not a page turner that you can't put down and you must keep reading it to find out what happens in the end kind of book. It was just a good story about a young woman living in Manitoba and learning what it means to be a mother, a daughter and a friend.

Chloe came over and made cookies with Liam today. Liam has been looking forward to doing this for quite some time, so he was very excited. It was a sticky mess...they kept spilling sprinkles everywhere and licking icing off of everything, Chloe had icing in her hair, Liam had icing all over his shirt...but they had a good time.

Look at how much he is concentrating.


I made one of these, can you guess which one?