Dear Henry,If you remember back to when you were just three weeks old Mommy took you to the library to get your very first library card. You have made great use of it since checking out many books and CD's. The last visit I took you into the activity room for the first time, we rented a DVD, and borrowed your first texture book.
While in the playroom Mommy received a call from your Auntie Kristin' who was off work and looking to play. She met us in the DVD's where we picked out The Electric Company...Puuuh..eeeer...Perfect!
We asked one of the desk experts for some books with loose adoption themes and slipped into the playroom while she looked. Auntie Kristin, loving you as much as she does, had already one in mind that she found in her search, "And Tango Makes Three," by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.
Henry, you will grow to know this book well as you grow up because it is such as sweet true story. It is about two male penguins that live in the Central Park Zoo who for a long time and don't find a mate. Penguins mate for life and one day the two penguins find each other and do everything together. It is hard for the two penguins because they really want a family, so much so when the other penguins work on laying and protecting their eggs until they hatch these two build a nest and sit on a rock. There is another penguin couple that laid two eggs but had rarely been able to take care of more than one at a time...so the penguin keeper puts the other egg with the couple wishing to be penguin parents. They care for their egg and then their baby until it goes off into the world. Sigh... WHAT A TEAR JERKER!In the playroom you played with little wooden dolls and got up on your hands and knees freaking out your Aunt Kristin. (This was about a week before you were crawling.) You sat in the kid chair and played with a little jack in the box. A little girl was trying REALLY hard to play with you but her mom kept reeling her back in reminding her that she had just gotten over a fever. YIKES! I am sure happy that you didn't get sick!
We said goodbye to Auntie K and drove back home where we started reading your books right away. You loved the Trucks Usborne Touchy Feely and scratched your little fingers across, bumps, ridges and rough spots.Tomorrow you will have another of many library adventures.
Love, Mommy
*If anyone has book suggestions we would love to check them out!
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We have a beautiful (to us anyway) story about "And Tango Makes Three." Last year around the family reunion, my Mom (79) and my great nephew, Marshall (4), were playing. Marshall found our copy of "Tango" and asked my mom to read it to him. She didn't know that I was watching them.
They sat down and Mom started reading the story. I didn't know how she'd react when she got to the part where you find out it's about two male penguins.
When she did, she didn't pause or change the story or anything. She read it just as it was. It nearly made me cry, it was so beautiful to watch.
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