Bedtime Ritual

While she hates to admit this--Reuben's dad was right, Where the Red Fern Grows was a very sad book to read before bed. In addition to making Reuben's mom cry, there was an unsavory part of the book where the local bully gets fatally wounded and as bad luck would have it, the bully was named Reuben... So, we took a break and only read short board books for a while. However, this week, Reuben's dad started a new book, Shane by Jack Schaefer, which according to the front cover is "the unforgettable novel about a boy's love and a gunman's struggle to escape his past"

Bedtime Ritual

Reuben is 6 weeks old and we have finally got a fairly consistent going to bed ritual. We feed him, wash his face, change his diaper, and then rock him and read.

The first few weeks, we read the book Pajama Time (thanks Heidi).


This week we started reading Where the Red Fern Grows. Hollie cried while reading the first chapter to him and Colby worried that it may be "too sad" a story for such a little man. Terri M. assured us that Reuben could handle it and inflection while reading was a good thing. So, we are on page 17 today and he is pretty cute while being read to... he crinkles his forehead and looks intently at the reader.... we are totally enamored with this little man!