I speak for the Trees

I recieved my degree in English. I am a huge reader. I love reading. I read as much as I can even if its only about 10 minutes worth on some days. Most of the time, I end up reading after I have the kids down for bed.

Some days, when they are playing quietly enough I sneak into the corner of the couch and cuddle up with a book. So they see me reading from time to time.

Everyone in my family has bought books for my children. So we have a ton of them all over. The books no longer fit on the shelf, so they have been put on the shelf in the living room and into drawers. They pull the books out of drawers and off shelves and climb on me so I can read to them. Beau loves the Blue truck book and depending on what Billy is into is what he's asking me to read. We read the Pixar Cars book so much, he could recite the story back to us at 2 yrs old and its since fallen apart.

My husband started buying Dr. Seuss, my mom brought over my old books, and finally the Lorax was bought. All my kiddos will stop what they are doing and come sit by who ever has started a story. I hope they become big readers like me.

We read the Lorax by Dr. Seuss.


My children loved the story, so I bought the original animation from Walmart. They sat still and quiet.... and watched it about 30 times.... I could only sit throught it the first 4 times... then its to the point that mommy has chores to do and doesn't have to worry about coming back to a mess.


Finally I took my kids to the theater to see The Lorax on the big screen... They were absolutly glued to the screen. I think I watched them more than I watched the movie.

I took them to IHOP to eat. They had all the different Dr. Seuss themed food. Then I had to go by Walmart to pick up some groceries. They wanted to plant a Truffula tree.... but there arn't any... so I found the next best thing.

Flowers that look like the trees.

We planted these and my kids managed to get me in the garden every day to water. We'll see how they survive the hot summer and winter.