Just like Dad

Charley has found a love of reading....just like dad. The last few weeks, she has been sleeping with the light on. When we asked her why, she said, "so I can read my books." She has a Tinkerbell tent that we have been putting over her bed, and she'll stay up an hour or so after we put her to bed and read. She loves reading in bed, in her tent. This particular night we caught her with her book open but eyes closed.....sleeping!

***Charley still can't read....she is getting close. She can recognize some words, and is constantly with her nose in a book.....we've read each of her books tons of times, and she has most of them memorized. She'll just tell the story to herself as close as she remembers it from when we read to her. Her favorite activity is going to the library, and we can spend a few hours a week there looking at books. Which is great for me in this cold weather!

We had our ward Christmas party a week or so ago, and Santa came. When she sat on Santa's lap he asked what she wanted for Christmas, and she said "I want babies and books!" I promise I didn't tell her to say that. She loves her baby dolls, and loves books. She's a girl that knows what she wants!