If a one year old could have a favorite author, Elijah's would be Eric Carle. He loves Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which are the only two Eric Carle books we have.
When reading Caterpillar one night, we got to the end, read about the beautiful butterfly and our little blond boy started saying "Buh...buh...buh..." It was the first time he'd tried to say something without lots of prompting and repetition.
He is so proud of his attempts to say the word "butterfly" that he wants to get right to it when we pick up that book. He doesn't have the patience for all the pages and flips through fairly quickly. So, Caterpillar has taken on a strange new form in our house. It goes something like this:
"In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.
He started to look for some food.
On Saturday he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.
Now he wasn't hungry any more, and he wasn't a little caterpillar anymore.
He was a beautiful butterfly!"
Followed by a very enthusiastic "buh, buh, buh!!"
I wish uploading video worked for me, it's much cuter to see!
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