Seahorses n Things

We had a library trip, and picked up a book about sea horses. As we read from the seahorse book, I'd read the text and show him the pictures. It was really cute: he was in his highchair having a snack & I'd read then turn it around for him to see, and he'd smile at the pictures of seahorses. I learned that seahorses are very odd creatures. Did you know that the male actually incubates the eggs, in a belly-pouch like a kangaroo? And then he gives "birth" to a buncha tiny seahorses? They had a picture in the book. Apparently seahorses also make decent pets, and are nice additions to aquariums, as long as the other fish are compatible. Who knew? We also read this week's story, Mommy Hugs, several times today. I think he likes this one.

Later on we went and played the piano. He's so cute when he's "practicing." We actually did that twice today, for just a few minutes each time. And he wandered over there on his own to stand at the keys and make sweet music all by himself.

I've been reading a book about reading non-fiction (more on that in a bit) and decided to change the format of our Lesson plans a bit - kind of depart somewhat from the Brightly Beaming Baby model. But I'll probably still keep at least some of that site's plans around too. We'll see how things develop.