Call It What You Want...

It's a continuation of his latest phase, but Mark is really into his cats these days. As in his early days of speech ("dogdogdogdog"), now everything is "CAT". Fortunately, most things he points at and says that about, are.

On Tuesday, we went to the library to get some new reading material. After watching the fish for a while (still a favorite, perhaps because stereotypically cats like to catch fish?), we were wandering the stacks. I suggested that we might look for a tiger book. Mark immediately walked to the next shelf, put out his finger, and pointed to a teensy tiny picture of a tiger on the end of a videotape.

Okay. Tiger book. Good plan. Except that was the general "animal" section. I had to go two rows over to get to tigers. We came back with a couple books, one a true winner.

Of course, the lion on the front gets the same sound effect as the tiger ("raaaah"). The pictures are, as one would expect from a DK Eyewitness book, spectacular. The text, while missing Mark's age group by some 8 years, is interesting in small snippets. The pages are spellbinding for the little dude. He sat in the car on the way to Bible Study on Wednesday "reading". I didn't hear a peep all the way there or all the way home. Well, except for the occasional "raaaah".