Sydney's Saturday Story

If there's anything that compares to the joy of reading, it's the joy of watching your child read. Even though Sydney doesn't exactly read yet, she has an excellent memory for books. I love watching her climb up into the reading chair in the living room, open a book, and start telling the story. One of these days she'll surprise me and actually start reading the words rather than reciting them from memory, but I'm in no hurry. She'll figure out how to read eventually, in her own timing. And when she does...oh boy. I have a whole shelf of books just waiting for her.

Until then, I wanted to record some of these fun moments of Sydney and her favorite books. I know these videos are longer than anyone will want to watch, but that's okay. They're still fun for me to listen to. And I bet Sydney's cousin Clover will probably like it too. They're crazy about each other.

Today's story is The Baby Beebee Bird, by Diane Redfield Massie, illustrated by Steven Kellogg. It's the story of a little baby bird who keeps the zoo awake with all his singing. The animals are none too happy to have their sleep disturbed, but they devise a plan to get back at the little bird for keeping them awake. All day long they "beebee bobbibobbi!" to keep the baby bird awake, so that in the end they all get to sleep through the night.

I've had a couple of baby beebee birds keep me awake a time or two. Life is certainly much better when everyone sleeps at night, yes?

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Comments

[Devon]

Oh my gosh, I cracked up through this thing because I could totally hear YOUR inflections of that story in Syd's voice. The words aren't the only thing she's memorized!

[Anna Lewis]

What a great little story teller you have. The is so great that she has that whole book memorized. I am sure her mama has been reading to her a lot! :) I hope you and Jason are doing well. Thank you for the card and picture. Your girls are precious.

[Heather]

That's adorable! If she ever actually looked at the words, I'd be convinced you have a child protege on your hands. Either way, it's pretty impressive she can remember that much.

Maddie climbed onto my lap and we enjoyed watching it together.

[Rachel]

That video is to die for! Sydney is the cutest ever!!!

[Margaret]

My girls did the same thing, especially the older one. I have it on video, and it's hilarious. She made up all sorts of funny details while keeping to the basic story.

[violetismycolor]

OMGosh, Syd is growing up so fast. This is such a fun time to watch someone growing up. Enjoy, enjoy.