1/03/2008

 

Happy New Year!

It's a new year and a new resolution to keep up this blog, we'll see if I keep it this year! To start, the 2007 book list. I did not keep track of magazines or kids' books this year - suffice to say I subscribe to (or read faithfully at work) about 6 magazines, plus those I pick up and read here and there. And I probably read 300 different kids' books (not counting re-reads!) - Emma has at least 200 on her bookshelf I would guess, plus many library trips, books in waiting rooms (3 yesterday!), etc. She and I knocked out the public library's summer reading challenge (15 hours over 2 months) easily, even with all of the other summer distractions. So, here is the list of "grown-up" books:

The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell/Lilian Jackson Braun
Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World’s Toughest Cases
Hidden Evidence: 40 True Crimes and how Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
Momfidence!
Face of Deception/Iris Johansen
The Killing Game/Irish Johansen
The Five People You Meet in Heaven/Mitch Albom
The Gospel of Judas
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Buddhism for Dummies
The Science of Parenting
Color of Magic/Terry Pratchett
Carved in Bone/Jefferson Bass
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers/Lilian Jackson Braun
The Light Fantastic/Terry Pratchett
You Suck! A Love Story/Christopher Moore
Going Postal/Terry Pratchett
Unnatural Selection/Aaron Elkin
It’s OK to Miss the Bed on the 1st Jump
It’s All Too Much
Mort/Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites/Terry Pratchett
Sourcery/Terry Pratchett
Cause of Death
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed/Alan Alda
The Creative Writing Murders/Heather Ross Miller
Murder 2: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection
30 Days to a Simpler Life
The World According to Mr. Rogers
A Mind of its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg
Maria/Maria von Trapp
Making Money/Terry Pratchett
Tuesdays With Morrie/Mitch Albom
Meditation for Dummies
Beyond the Body Farm/Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson

As you can see, I finally got hooked on Terry Pratchett this year. Took me long enough, Brian would say! Also the usual amount of forensic stuff and mysteries. I joined a local book club this fall, so the new year will likely bring a few variations to my usual fare. We shall see!

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5/12/2007

 

Happy Mother's Day

I love the sentiment here! But I'm still trying to figure out where a potion was involved in the process. Is that what congee really is? Or maybe that was the unidentifiable soup in Guangzhou. Wait, I know! The Godawful Chinese cough syrup! That was definitely a potion of some kind!!!

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4/17/2007

 

See, I'm not THAT Southern

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

35% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

0% Yankee

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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3/30/2007

 

Tagged by Sue

Now that blogger is finally letting me in again, a meme:

The guidelines are: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what they are. They must be songs you are currently enjoying. Then tag seven other people to see what they’re listening to.

1. Anyway by Martina McBride - uplifting and pretty!

2. Watching You by Rodney Atkins - a good reminder that I am Emma's model

3. Anything on the Toddler Favorites CD - I am having so much fun listening to Emma singing all these songs in the backseat!

4. Life is a Highway - because the dance is so much fun

5. I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack - always a favorite, my theme song for Emma

6. OK, see, I usually listen to the radio not CDs (except Toddler Favorites and Wiggles) so this is hard. If I think of 2 more I'll post them!

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1/07/2007

 

2006 reading part 3: the librarian's child

I do not force reading upon my daughter. I merely provide books, and she chooses to bring me stacks at a time to read to her, over and over. Here are the books we read in 2006. (Listed only once each...though some of these we have read over and over. And over. And over. And...)

Emma’s Story
Pooh and Friends Opposites
February Adoptive Families
Pooh and Friends Animals
Peek-a-boo Ladybug
Little Duckling
It’s Okay to be Different
Pooh and Friends 123
Pooh
Animal Signs for Babies
Chinese picture book – animals
I’m a Little Teapot
Animal Babies
A New Doll for Baby Daisy
Shapes: A Sparkly Board Book
Number Nine Duckling
Lift the Flap Farm Animals
That’s Not my Dinosaur
My Potty Book for Girls
Goodnight Moon
Scrub-a-dub
Zoo Babies
Find the Puppy
Rugrats It’s a Circus!
Hop, Dance, Jump
Little Chick
Chicka Chicka ABC
Pat the Bunny on the Playground
Dinosaurs Play’n’Learn Popup Alphabet Book
A is for Apple
Five Little Ducks
Noddy and the Lost Animals
Pooh and Friends Colors
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Tigger Bounces Back
Bunnies
When Bath Time Comes
The Saltwater Bath
Knock Knock, It’s Pooh!
Up and Down Opposites Book
Where’s the Cat?
Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings
Usborne Look and Say Beach
Henry’s Numbers
Big Red
In My House
Winnie the Pooh First Telephone Book
Open the Barn Door
Little Grown-Ups
Here We Go
Haunted House
Touch & Feel Puppy
Dozer
Dad Mine
I’m a Forklift
Bye-Bye, Diapers
Thunder Truck
Ana’s Animals Playful Pets
My First Chinese New Year
The Belly Button Book
My Little ABC Board Book
Potty Book for Girls (different one!)
Too Big for Diapers
Bob the Builder: The Very Busy Day
Bunnies
The School Bus
Sally the Sea Ferry
Horns to Tails and In Between
Usborne Look and Say Farm
Diggers
From Head to Toe
Little Wings Duck
Spring Peeps
You Can Pilot a Submarine
The Way I Feel
Hop-Along Bunny
Freddy the Fire Engine
Opposites
Tractor-Trailer
Big Red Barn
Time to Eat
Drummer Hoff
Johnny Tractor’s Fun Farm Day
Wiggly Songs
I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Pooh and the Big Storm
Wild Animal Baby 2
Chinese picture book - objects
Happy Baby Words
Jungle Colors
Baby Animals
Richard Scarry Early Words
Touch & Feel Baby Animals
Growing Up
What Do Toddlers Do?
The Great Parade
Puffy
Touch and Feel Cat
Touch and Feel Farm
Bear Loves Water
Thomas the Tank Engine Colors
What Is It?
The Zoo
Put Me in the Zoo
Wiggly Party
Thomas’ Magnetic Play Book
The Wiggles Starry Night
Are You My Mother?
I Am a Little Panda
Curious Cat
Dinosaur ABC
Goofy Shoelace Book
Peekaboo, Blue
Dora the Detective
The Going-to-Bed Book
Blue’s Bedtime Nursery Rhymes
The Snowy Day
One Monster After Another
Wiggles Block Board Book Numbers!
Wiggles Block Board Book Shapes!
Wiggles Block Board Book Letters!
Wiggles Block Board Book Opposites!
Wild Animal Baby 3
Jimbo
Little Bear
Mr. Pine’s Purple House
How Do I Love You?
Trucks
Angelina Dances
Things That Go
The Temper Tantrum Book
Frogs in Clogs
Just Like Me
Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party
Wheels That Go! Fire Truck
In a People House
Wiggletail
The Firefighters’ Busy Day
Diego and Click Take a Pic
Your New Potty
Monster Tales Pumpkin Patch Party
The Eye Book
There Was an Old Lady
Veggie Tales Colors
Say Boo
Kisses
Get to Work Trucks!
Down on the Farm
The Little Red Caboose
Five Silly Turkeys
Nedobeck’s Numbers Book
Tonka Construction
Corduroy Goes to the Doctor
Corduroy’s Busy Street
Little Bear’s Visit
Mama’s Wish/Daughter’s Wish
Great Day For Up
Smokey the Bear
Chilly Critters
My Big Dog
The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham
Chipmunk ABC
Where is Baby’s Belly Button?
Dr. Seuss’s ABC
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
There’s a Wocket in my Pocket!
Hop on Pop
One fish two fish red fish blue fish
Will You Take Care of Me?
Pig Wants to Play
Clarence the Crocodile
The Mitten
Paddington’s Things I Do
One Duck Stuck
Loving
Time to Pee!
My First Kitten Touch & Feel
Thomas the Tank Engine’s Hidden Surprises
Who Will Guide my Sleigh Tonight?
Bob and 6 More Christmas Stories
Jingle Bells
The Night Before Christmas
Santa’s Christmas Surprise
Frosty the Snowman
The Gingerbread Man
Christmas Trolls
The Littlest Elf
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
Howard Hoots Again
What is Pink
I Don’t Care Said the Bear
Wheels Around
Some Smug Slug
Mary Wore Her Red Dress
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Try to Remember the First of Octember
Jolly Koalas
The Foot Book
One Baby Jesus
Christmas in the Manger
Frosty the Snowman (diff one)
The Night Before Christmas
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly (diff version)
Wiggles Colors
Wiggles First Words
I Dreamt I Was a Dinosaur
Love You Forever
Mommy Mine (diff version)
The Animal Boogie

210 books! WOW!!!!!!!!!!! That's my girl!

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