Well on the way

Hannah is becoming a book junkie. She loves books. Both Michael and I are the same way, so it's not terribly surprising. I'm pleased that she likes reading so much (although she's not actually reading to herself just yet), and glad she's enjoying a bunch of the books that I loved growing up. Michael's getting to read some of them, too, since he reads to her before bed. They're working their way through Laura Ingalls Wilder's books, and both of them are really into them. It's hard to say who's more interested in what will happen next.

Quiet time is made very easy by Hannah's love of books. We get books on tape from the library or loaned to us from friends and Hannah is allowed to listen to one tape of approximately one hour each quiet time. She'll listen to the same book over and over before we have to return it. Currently, she's reading The Borrowers Afield, by Mary Norton, the second in the series. She's always very pleased when a book she especially likes has sequels. This is her first time through this particular book, though, and I notice that quiet time pop outs are much decreased when she's on her first or second time through a book.

Our home used to be populated with Hannah's imaginary friends from her books. Then she began to think that perhaps too many of her imaginary friends were trying to live in our house, so they started to build houses nearby. However, their houses are *under* the street, since there's not enough room for them above ground, and people would be bumping into them all the time, since they didn't know that the imaginary houses were there. There's quite a neighborhood.

Apparently, these friends are moving to our new neighborhood, too. They're moving this week, since they're actually picking up their houses and taking them down to the new place. I imagine this takes even longer than packing and moving just the stuff inside the house, but I am glad to hear that Hannah's imaginary friends will be around to entertain and delight us all when we move.