Amanda's Favorite Things

As I already mentioned in, "Choosing a Name for this Blog," Amanda loves books. Not just picture books, but all books. She’ll take one of my books that I’m reading, which doesn’t have any pictures, and will sit for a long period of time pretending to read it. She also likes looking at magazines. Samantha, our 11 year-old, has been getting the NG Kids’ Magazine. Amanda looks at the pictures with great interest.

Her favorite color is pink. Her favorite movie used to be “the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh” and then it was “the Lion King.” “The Lion King” DVD eventually split through the middle and for a long time she was very sad about that. Episodes of “Barney” came next, but at the moment she likes to watch a variety of things instead of the same thing over and over again, which used to drive us crazy anyway.

In this photo, Amanda is looking at the book, Littl One, Little One, What do You See?, by Alan Siewert.

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Choosing a Name for this Blog

Once I decided that my daughter, Amanda, would be enough of a topic to keep me blogging for a long time, I needed to decide on a blog name.

The idea came to me one afternoon when Amanda and I were lying down for a nap. Her routine at naptime and bedtime is to take books and dolls or stuffed animals to bed with her. She asked me to read to her from one of her chosen books. I wanted to tell her no, that I was too tired, but then I decided that one book couldn’t take too long. It was a toddler’s book after all. Of course, this made her so happy that it was worth it.

If I was going to write a blog about Amanda, then I’d have to write about the things that are important to her – hence the name, “Amanda’s Books and More!”

In this photo Amanda has just turned 2 years old. She's opening up her birthday presents and is holding her new book, Barney: My First Book of Colours.

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