I didn't expect her to latch onto it so early, but about a week ago she brought us the book at bedtime and said "Pooh!" To humor her I started reading the first story, figuring that a book with few pictures and many words was only going to last a minute or two. To my surprise she wanted to hear the whole story. She was restless, and she wanted to hold a different book, but when given the option to stop reading she wanted me to keep going.
So, for the last week it has become a bedtime pattern. I read a Pooh story while she is restless and moving around and looking at other things and then usually we read one or two of her other books. I don't think she is really following the story completely, but she likes to hear them and it is a nice change from "Goodnight Moon."
Tonight however Madelyn wanted to lay on the bed between Justin and I and she was very quiet while we were reading. When I finished the story we looked at her and she had fallen asleep. I don't think she has fallen asleep while we were reading stories for at least a year. Sometimes you just melt...
And so the Pooh stories will live on for at least one more generation :)
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