Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Today is Dr. Seuss's birthday- so we celebrated a little. Meaning, I read Chase his Dr. Seuss books and we were happy that Dr. Seuss was born. I love the Seuss books, Chase does too! He's been hearing Dr. Seuss since he was just a little lime size peanut in my tummy. My mom gave me a book when I was pregnant called, "Oh Baby! The places you'll go! A book to be read in utero" which was a darling book about the excitement of a baby coming to Earth and all the fun things they'll experience through Seuss's books. Research showed that babies who were read to in utero responded to the sing-songy rhymes after birth, inferring that babies could even gain some intellectual benefit from being read to in utero. I read the book to Chase whenever I had a minute and wanted to put my feet up anyway and it never failed to get him dancing all over the place in there.

After Chase was born I started to reading to him almost immediately. Even from a tiny age he was mesmorized by the pictures in books. As he's gotten older, and now clearly understands more, reading time is still one of my favorite things we do. I think reading to children is so important and I'm so glad that my little Chase loves it as much as I do. Here is a picture of Chase carrying around "The Foot Book"- a definite favorite. Thanks to this book, Chase can successfully locate his own feet (unlike eyes, ears, nose and mouth that he can only locate on others). We love Dr. Seuss!