Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Tuesday

It's a first - I didn't buy anything at the book sale today. Skimpy selection, since the big sale this month probably cleared out a lot of the stock.

Returned 10 books, a video, and a DVD on Saturday, and another three books today. But then we came home with 10 more books (3 for El Burrito, and 5 more crochet books), so the total still stands at 39 items checked out. One of the crochet books is Stitch N Bitch, which looks interesting, but reeks of cigarette smoke.

Reading-wise, it's mostly been reading books to El Burrito. I can recite Hippos Go Berserk from memory now (although it holds up well under repetition), as well as the Owl and the Pussycat (Edward Lear, illustrated by Jan Brett). For adult reading, this week it's Living Well on a Shoestring: 1,501 Ingenious Ways to Spend Less For What You Need and Have More For What You Want, found at the book sale for 50c, and The 50 Best Sights in Astronomy, which I've been working on for a while. Had a little setback with it, when El Burrito pulled the bookmark out of it.

El Burrito is working on some molars, leading to much grumpiness at times. His vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds, too. Currently, he's fascinated with flags, trucks, trains, and books. And Cookie Monster, and Super Grover. Oh, and looking in the washing machine as it fills up. (He tossed a tractor in the washer yesterday, tried to put a car in the dryer, and was planning to drop a truck in the toilet, I think.) He's coming up with his own names for things - Birthday Monsters is "monster cleaning crew" and the "kitty cat book" is The Owl & the Pussycat. And whenever he hears the word Tuesday, he says "library! books!" now.

I may have to start swearing like Satchel, now that El Burrito is hitting the parrot stage. That's just too funny.

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