NR loves books. Well, he is crazy about books. He would glance thru his books throughout the day. Currently he is in the “bend and break the book” phase. His father spoils him like anything and NR has damaged couple of his books. I warn him when I see damaged books but he is unstoppable. These days, I give his books only when I am around.
NR entertains himself by glancing thru the books for hours or playing with his toys or just listening to music I play on the CD when I make our daily meals. I would go in between to read him a book or to play with him. He hates to see me rush back to the kitchen to finish the cooking.
I felt he was ready for Tamil language books when he was around two years. I’d asked my sister to get my favorite childhood Tamil books from Chennai . She was not able to find the shop. But she sent loads of books thru my brother when he visited us for NR’s second birthday.
And for Christmas my sister had sent couple of more books and dresses for NR, me and CB. He received books from his favorite “Pepper” series. Thanks to his year-round Santa aka Chitha , he has a decent collection of Tamil and English books(Indian Edition). I've been reading tamil books regularly which he fancies and kept other books out of his reach. His favorite tamil books are
- Aa Vilurundu akku varai
- Suvatril Nadanam (NR loves shirvi)
- who am I
- Engey antha poonai
- Para para patti Erumbu
- Thakita tharikita kuthikum bandhu
- Pepper goes to school
- Pepper brushes his teeth
- Bruno learns to share
NR gives his favorite tamil books to CB, to read . CB is not comfortable reading tamil . He is forced to read tamil books by NR. From our Kitchen, I would listen to him read tamil like a first grader making so many mistakes at each line. It frustrated me and made me really annoyed angry. It was ackward to listen to a grown up reading his own language like a kid. But I kept quiet, since I don't want to spoil NR's happy time. And it was around that time, CB complained about the spelling/grammar mistakes in my blog. Since he was reading my blog, I wrote this post.
He loves the illustrations from the "My mother’s Garden". This book is written by my new favorite illustrator . He cries a bit wanting to see the pictures in the book by himself but I refused to give him. In my absence his dad gives him that book. CB doesn't even feel bit guilty about breaking the boundaries I’d set for NR.
Appa brings loads of books from library everyday mostly Diego , Dora and other popular children series books. Being a book-a-holic, CB visits Barnes Noble, Borders almost everyday (before NR he lived there) and his office is located to closer to one of Portland biggest book shop Powells. CB buys beautiful books for NR regularly.
Papa and son regularly visits the bookshop on summer days followed by a an hours walk and play in our community play ground. We have a yearly pass to our local zoo so papa and son used to go at least twice or thrice a week visiting his favorite animals and having a cool choo choo ride.
It’s challenging to entertain NR during winter since he gets sick so often when he goes out in the cold weather. But still his dad takes him to the nearest play gym, his favorite pet store and to book shops. And at home NR gets limited time on TV and computer.
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