Bedtime stories tonight.

Parker likes to have books read to him backwards. Not just page by page, but word by word. I read this book Phoebe and Chub to him tonight like that and it was pretty hard to do. Your eyes naturally look to the next word. He cracked up the whole time and I sounded like Yoda. Try it.

He also likes to have books read to him all silly. You replace the regular words with silly words or slightly different sounds. We read Caps for Sale that way tonight too until the girls got really upset about it. Flaps for sale! Thrifty cents a Flap! He gets really into it making up fake words left and right.

We also read Little Quack, a story about some ducklings who are afraid to leave the nest but who, one by one, get the courage up to do so. When we got to the last duckling, Little Quack, I asked Miranda, "Do you think he will go in the water?" "No," she said very sadly, "He is just too, too scared."