Opinionated

Lately Jesse has become somewhat opinionated about which books we read. You may remember me writing about how much he loved the book "Moo Baa La La La" when he was younger. This book was the equivalent of a pacifier for Jesse; it made him so happy. Well, over the past two weeks he has developed pretty negative feelings towards this book for some reason. Every single time I open that book to read to him he slams it shut before I can read the first page, and sometimes he does this very impolitely and will cry and squirm to get out of my lap. There was one day this week that we would make it as far as the second page (with the sheep on it) and he would make an awful face and start to whimper and look away. He would look at any other book, but not that one. I got some video of James reading another book to him, and then reading "Moo Baa La La La". Jesse didn't get upset in this video, but you can see that he wanted to shut it at first. He actually ended up letting James finish the book here, so maybe he's getting over it, or maybe he'd just prefer his Daddy reading to him.

Here's another short video of James reading him another book about babies playing in water. Over the past several weeks he has kissed the same babies in the book every time I have read it to him. He started doing this on his own, but now we will ask him to kiss the babies when we read it to him. It is so cute! I don't know what it is about those particular babies!