Ava wanted me to read a book with her this evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Lately I’ve been lying down on the floor in her room with her next to me as I read the book, which she seems to enjoy.<\/p>\n
Tonight she pulled out good ol’ Pat the Bunny<\/em>, which is a pretty popular children’s book that I just can’t stand.\u00c2\u00a0 But I read through it, front to back, like a good daddy.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was done, I asked Ava if she wanted to read another book.\u00c2\u00a0 She did.\u00c2\u00a0 She walked up to her overflowing bookshelf and stood there, looking.\u00c2\u00a0 I said, “Why don’t you get Barnyard Dance<\/em>?”\u00c2\u00a0 She just stood there.\u00c2\u00a0 And she stood there some more.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, to my amazement, she grabbed Barnyard Dance<\/em> and brought it over to me.<\/p>\n How did she know which book was Barnyard Dance<\/em> when she was presented with only the small spines of four shelves of board books?\u00c2\u00a0 The color?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it possible she recognized the words?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe she just associated the visual patterns of the letters on the spine (which are the same on the front cover) with the sound of “barnyard dance.”\u00c2\u00a0 I just don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 But it’s really cool to see her making these connections, however it is she does it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ava wanted me to read a book with her this evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Lately I’ve been lying down on the floor in her room with her next to me as I read the book, which she seems to enjoy. Tonight she pulled out good ol’ Pat the Bunny, which is a pretty popular children’s book that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9oLlO-smart","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}