Book Worm

I have always thought of children (myself included) going to bed with certain special stuffed animals or blankets - soft things. BB goes to bed with books. It's funny, it's nice if Spot and Kitty Cat are in the bed, but he doesn't always miss them if they're not. But, if one of his bedtime books (not always the same ones, but seem to rotate in weekly or monthly phases) has been left downstairs or something, we have to stop everything until it is found and brought to his bed. At the moment the essential books are the "yellow kammar book", The Little Engine That Could, and a book about a circle and a line and all the things they can make together, written in English and Somali (this last one is a library book, so hopefully he won't get too attached!).
The interesting thing is that although he enjoys reading them, and looks through the pages until his arms get tired and eyelids get too heavy, they seem to provide the same kind of comfort as, for example, my teddy bear gave me. He sometimes cuddles up to or leans on the books as he's falling asleep. Once, I made the mistake of moving them away before he was in deep sleep (they don't look very cozy to me!). He noticed they were gone, and we had a big problem on our hands!


It really shouldn't be surprising after the way he blew off his first Wappen for Pat the Bunny! Guess we have a little book worm on our hands. :)

Mama