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| my daughter's fancy...books:-) |
Among other things that my daughter is interested in, it is browsing books where she spends a lot of time more than playing with dolls and others toys. She cannot read yet. Furthermore, he could only mumble few words. But then, again it is books that she mostly engage herself with.
I would not just call it "genetic" (harharhar). It started with the "OA" ( as in overacting whehhehe) mom in me just wanting to engage her with books as early as her fetal stage (now i can see your face shocked hahhahah). I read stories to her as early 5 - 6 months inside my womb. And when she came out, books are within her reach..inside her crib (with my 'supervision' )and on the floor so that she could just get anything everytime she feels like reading them.
...And so while we watch TV at home, I catch her on the floor with her books. Or when she seems to be so silent inside the room, I would peep and would see her reading not just those simple story books which she browsed at 1 to 2 year old. Recently, she is browsing Catholic magazines (oh my) and books like "health and home" ( i guess she likes them... she looks like she is so engage in it). She gets to choose what she likes to read. She tears some of them and goes back to reading them despite the looks. She just "reads". 
Well, at her very young age, I could not exactly tell what her impressions are since she does not verbally express them. When I get to interfere at times, she would signal to dismiss me. She just did not want anyone to interrupt. She looked like thinking hard at a distance. Though she would point some photos to me which for me is like asking me what they are. So I would tell her about them until she would pull herself at one corner and continue with her sort of "reading" session. 
As a mom, of course, I am so proud of my "little bookworm" girl. I get to engage her with some other activities though to balance things such as make her watch her favorite ABCD video and nursery rhymes and play with toys. But toys usually fly up in the air and land somewhere else. With books, she is so engaged and shall I call it so at peace and settled...Other than that, she has neighbor friends who she spends some time in the afternoon to play with. She would run, dance, pick tiny flowers, laugh and giggle with them, etc. But then again...when she gets home...she would immediately pick up her ...books:-)
...way to go for my little bookworm girl:-)
