Sweet cousin

Over Thanksgiving weekend, we had a good time visiting with my sister and her kids. Rand's a sweet, big cousin!

Demoted

This week in history, we reached William the Conqueror. This means that William gets to be king (he is William the Conqueror after all). Elijah is now a prince.

Recess now frequently involves the peasants working the fields for their lord. One noblewoman today was interceding on behalf of an unseen peasant. She requested and was granted, by William the Conqueror, a holiday per month for the peasant, but upon reflection decided that 12 days off a year was insufficient. I didn't catch the final resolution.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A bit late, but we're especially thankful for this little guy:

Reading with Daddy

Elijah loves being read to

In Action

Reading

This month, reading books has become a favorite activity for Elijah. He loves to sit and read stories over and over.

With this, he has developed book preferences; for example, out of the books currently in the office, his favorites are "Goodnight Gorilla," "Snuggle Puppy," and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear." When given a choice of which book to read, one of these three is almost always chosen.

This is accompanied by a newfound respect for paper. Whereas he used to shred magazines, catalogs, or any other paper we'd hand him, he now carefully (relatively speaking for an eight month old) turns pages.