Reading Stories

S: Okay, R, it's time to get ready for bed. Let's read some stories. Go pick out a few stories to read.

(R runs to bookshelf and pulls Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She was Extinct off of her shelf.)

R: You not read this story, Mommy.

S: You don't want me to read the story?

R: No. Only teachers read stories.

S: Oh, really?

R: Yeap.

(R climbs into her rocking chair and looks as if she's going to start reading the book.)

S: Are you a teacher, R?

R: Yeap. (flips a few pages, to a page where a bunch of children and Edwina are holding hands in a circle). Ring around the Rosy. Pocketbook full of posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

(flips a few more pages)

S: Tell me the story. What's happening here?

R: It's a boy. (quickly flips a few more pages, to the end of the book). Cookies!! (pretends to pick up a cookie and eat it). Yum yum yum!

(R gets up and runs back to her bookshelf. Returns with Is Your Mama a Llama?)

S: Oh, this book is fun. Tell me this story!

R: Once upon a time . . . there was a cave!

S: Oh! What was in the cave?

R: Aminals.

S: What kind of animals?

(R proceeds to flip very quickly through the book's pages until she gets to the end)

R: The end!