Ally loves to read

Ally loves her crib. We've posted lots of pictures about her jumping in it, sleeping, playing etc. But her latest favorite thing is to read in her crib. Every morning and every afternoon after nap she demands books. We're working on saying please, which she can do, but only with prompting from us. Not that I mind giving my daughter books to read in bed. It is so incredible to me - she will typically read 15-20 books before she lets us pick her up. She actually looks at each one and points out things in the pictures. I usually give her a couple books at a time and when she is done with them she asks for more, so we take out the old and give her new ones. Lat night before she went to sleep we could hear her over the monitor calling for books.
Here she is showing off her reading skills after her nap.

I am an avid reader so its delightful to me that Ally has discovered reading. I hope we can foster in her the same love of books that we have. Ally was very lucky at her welcome home party last year because she received many many books and a great wall mounted bookcase, so there are always plenty to look at. Besides Goodnight Gorilla and Head to Toe (which we keep in the living room, since she likes those read to her) Ally's current favorites are The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear (for some reason she is fascinated by the picture of the mouse and strawberry wearing mustaches), Good Night Moon (in either Spanish or English) and I love you like Crazycakes (which is a great book about a baby girl adopted from China) Ally chants baby to read this book by calling "baby, baby", and then she points out the airplane on their trip home, and the baby and the mother - we then talk about how Ally was born in Guatemala and her mommies went to Guatemala to get her, like the baby in book is from China.