She can read!

Well, not quite. But she's learned to turn pages in the book. It's awesome. She will grab the page of a board book and turn it in the right direction. She requires a little assistance (she has trouble getting a hold of just one page and will often just turn to the end of the book), but this is really the first grown-up thing that she's learned to do. I'm very proud.

She is also getting into feeling the books that have textures on the pages.

A Book I'm Reading

I checked out several baby books and a knitting book from the library a few days ago. Right now, I'm reading "Baby Love: Choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence" by Rebecca Walker. The title seems to be inappropriate. She talks in the first few pages about how she wanted a baby for years and years and years. She gets substantially more ambivalent after she gets pregnant.

Anyhow, the point of this post is that I wanted to share a quote that I think explains why I don't want to give birth in a hospital. "Episiotomy, C-section, I just don't want to be lying there helpless and at the mercy of a bunch of doctors in a hurry to get to their golf game."