Catalina found a hobby very early in life. She LOVED books before she was able to sit on her bum. She liked to touch them , she liked to listen to us reading.
She is here around 4 months old, keeping her head up to read stories about pink princesses:
Here she is, September 2010 (little shy of 6 months) enjoying her animal book:
She then went further and further, amazing pretty much everyone who saw her holding a book. We were stopped in a mall when she was a little over one year old by somebody who asked us if she truly knows what the book is about. At that time we had bought her a new book and she kept on babbling and pointing to the pictures in the book.
When she started going to day care, it was just gas over fire. More books, more people to read to her. Her progress report from daycare (at 14 months, when she graduated from infant room to small toddler room) stated that she is very good at turning all book pages, not only the hard baby ones. Yes, I was proud! Here she is one day after coming back home from day care, sometime in April 2011. These are some bills. She spent more than 10 minutes looking over the papers, talking and fighting with them, ignoring everyone in the room
Her Nana Petronela (godmother in Romanian) read stories to her also. July 4th 2011 weekend, in Lincoln Nebraska
This week we kept reading to her Punguta cu Doi Bani, a very famous Romanian kid story. She really liked one of the words "cocos" (rooster) and she kept repeating it. We realized she says lots of the story herself, so we made a short movie that made her grandmothers to go ballistic: "Catalina is a genius!"
I couldn't agree more:)
I am so in love with this little one. So darn perfect!
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