Good Morning, Starshine.

LJ has recently become fascinated with my knitting bag. Perhaps that's because I'm toting it around more often than I used to... this afternoon, after we returned from getting haircuts, she sat on the sunroom floor and systematically took each set of needles out of my bag, used them to drum or simulate knitting, and then exchanged them for the next set. It was truly endearing. I'm looking forward to teaching her how to knit, though Melissa assures me that she will be the first to teach her! I'm okay with that...Melissa has mad skills!


Lise informed me that LJ woke up this morning, sat straight up in bed, pointed to the bedside table and said "Book." When I slipped back into bed, both my girls were reading The Everything Book by Denise Fleming. I turned on my side, and when Lise was done reading, she turned on her side, and LJ sat there in the middle, reading aloud to herself. I don't know why this should surprise and thrill me as much as it does; after all, she's been watching us read in bed from the moment she was born. For that matter, I was using her in my belly as a prop for my books!

After we got out of bed, I made the coffee while LJ explored shoes, mosied around the kitchen and eventually ended up in the sunroom, headed straight for the book basket. One of her favorite things lately is going to the book basket, picking one, then bringing it to me or Lise and pointing to our laps. "Up," she'll say. Pick me up and read to me mommy.

I am grateful for sunny morning personalities, natural curiosity, kids imitating life, dear friends, and a spouse who recognizes and points out some of the coolest things about life.