1KBK

1000 Books to read before Kindergarten -  I came across this wonderful initiative today while browsing randomly. Check their website, https://1000booksbeforekindergarten.org. If you think its too high a target, they direct you to think of it this way. Reading 1 book per night makes it 365 a year and by 3 years one would have crossed 1095. In US, most children start Kindergarten by 5 so that gives them a lot of time. They have also compiled a wonderful collection of books that can be found here. Libraries in US are spreading this initiative among their members.

A Child's Play ;)

A picture post! This was the play area I setup for my LO in the corner of my living room. I really liked this space though I wished I had an entire room :) I regret for not taking a good quality pic that shows the complete stuff.

The part under the table was done completely out of diaper boxes and other cardboard boxes.The box above the table held stuff like books from the library, puzzles with many pieces, small magnetic letters etc that I did not want her to pick on her own(not anymore!). Above this toy box, I had pasted alphabet flash cards which is not shown in the picture. I particularly liked the small containers tied to the gate on the side as it was at the right height for the kiddo and neatly held small toys. We tucked in folded play tents behind the gate and that was perfect too.

The reason for posting this is that we are moving to another home soon and this is going to be dismantled and discarded! Am looking forward to see how the setup at the new home is going to turn out!

Introducing Manu (BM #7)

 Introducing MANU, my soon-to-be 8 month old Baby Girl. ****DRUMROLL****

Image Courtesy: http://www.wallcoo.net/

Ofcourse, Manu is not  her real name, its not even her nick name. I stuck to this name(a combination of my and my hubby's name -don't think too much about it, i have a nick name and hence the combination) when I was pregnant with her and created a goodreads account for her. Yes, why not? Am opening up the lovely world of books and imagination to her. It's upto her to decide if she loves it or not. Just that I did it a tad bit early!

Anyways, coming to the subject of this post, I was waiting for her to grow up a little bit so that I can make her differentiate between a book and a toy. I am not sure if she is ready yet but I visited our Library today and was so excited looking at the children's books and I brought her around 8 books :-)

Also, whenever I get excited with a Baby/Children book that I come across, I add it to Manu's goodreads account hoping she will pick up this habit and I can provide with age specific books.

So here it is, the official goodreads account of Manu's linked to my blog, on the side bar and in this post :-) I will update her review errr reactions about the books over a period of time.