Baby's First Book - a Ladybird Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Ladybird book for babies inspired me to use this post to tell a bit about my baby daughter Tegan Lucy.  Tegan is now 20 months old.  When she was born she came in a big hurry - from the first contraction to when she was born took all of 2.5 hours.  I totally was not expecting this since her big sister Keira took about 30 hours from start to finish! She is starting to learn more words lately - I think her first real word was 'apple'.  She really likes to look at books with pictures of things that she can recognize, point to, and sometimes say the word or make the animal sound for.  Right now her favourite song is "Old MacDonald".  She likes playing with her Little People sets, blocks, musical toys, or anything that she knows she is not supposed to have, haha!  She and her big sister like to play 'chase' together.  She really likes to eat any kind of fruit but she refuses to drink cow's milk at all.  Right now she still has a cold and it's so hard to fall asleep at night when she can't breathe properly - I hate it when she is sick, I feel so bad!  Oh and I have to mention one more thing about Tegan - she sometimes does this craaaazy laugh - my husband and older daughter and I refer to it by several names- the 'leprechaun' laugh, the 'crazy chipmunk' laugh, or the 'kookaburra' laugh.  :)  I really need to get it on video - it is way too funny!

So what have YOUR babies been up to?

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Shopping

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Shopping With Mother", a Ladybird book, depicts a day of shopping at various places.  The family goes to the fish shop, greengrocer's, ironmonger's shop (What??  I had to look this up - it basically means hardware store, in Britain.) , the chemist's shop, the baker, the flower shop, the draper's shop, the butcher, and the toy shop.  Wow!  Not like nowadays when we just go to Walmart and be done with it, haha!  "Let's Go Shopping", a Wonder Book published in 1958, tells the tale of Sally Snappit (what a great name!) as she asks her mother about all the different foods in the supermarket and where they came from.  Love her cute little outfit.

Vintage Ladybird - The Little Lord Jesus and Come Play with Us (a Peter and Jane book)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ladybird books!!  I need to try and collect as many of these as possible!  Which ones did you have?  My grandmother gave me "The Little Lord Jesus" when I was 3 and a half and somehow it survived all these years- a notable accomplishment since I have moved quite a few times.  This Peter and Jane book - "Play With Us" is from a used book sale and you can see that some little person was using it for printing practice.  :)  The first Peter and Jane books came out in the sixties, then were updated in the early seventies, and then again in the late seventies, like this one.  The illustrations change slightly over the years to reflect the changing times and styles of clothes, parenting, and play.  Check out www.vintageladybird.com for lots of fun stuff including adorable ladybird gifts.

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