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08 Booklist.pdf

One of our partners, Pierce County Library System, shared this book list with me. It is a list of some of the top children's books published in 2008. I have slowly been reading down the list and throughly enjoying them. I thought you might enjoy doing so too!

Read so far:
Ten Little Fingers Ten Little Toes
One Boy
Global Babies… Continue

I lay in bed fighting for a few extra moments of sleep. I had been up at 1.00 AM to feed our baby and again at 4.00 AM when his cries convinced my husband to say "just put him in bed with us, I have to be up in an hour anyway." I looked at Ivan, all swaddled, laying sideways—feet in my face, sleeping serenely and I made a silent promise to him. I silently told him that I would always love him.

Since Ivan was born almost six-months ago, I’ve made numerous promises to him. Some of them spoken “I… Continue

The Children's Alliance sent the following alert. Please join me in taking action by contacting your Representative.

President Obama is providing historic leadership to increase federal support for early childhood education.

Next week, your representatives in Congress have a chance to stand with our state's youngest learners.

The full U.S. House of Representatives is planning to vote next week on the new… Continue

CiKeithia at the Seattle Public Library, and a member of the Early Learning Public Library Partnership, encouraged us to join the summer reading program.

It was so much fun! Summer Readin' Had Us a Blast! Summer reading Happens So Fast!

Jesse and I read to Ivan, logged the books we read to him and took the certificate back to the library. Ivan was rewarded with a new boar… Continue

My friend sent me this YouTube video from the AARP. It is really quite depressing in the beginning, but if you watch the whole thing it makes sense and gives you a sense of hope. It is definately thought provoking and involves some creative genius. Please watch the video, its only about two minutes long.

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