First Library Trip

First big trip to the library today, and we picked 8 books, we are going to continue to go weekly or bi-weekly for as long as we can. :-) I was writing my brother Casey a letter, and thought I'd share part of what I'd wrote, because it's how I feel about books (other than pure love):

            I’m going to take the boy to the library today to grab some more baby books, I’m tired of reading the same ones to him all the time. I try to read to him as often as I can. I really want him to enjoy books and be literate. I think it’s so important, and there are a ton of statistics showing that boys don’t read anymore, and the link between literacy becoming “girly” and boys failing out of school is huge. I’m trying to avoid that at all costs. I actually just ordered a book called: Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness and Thug Culture. I’m hoping to get some good pointers out of that to make my son enjoy reading and being literate and helping him want to enjoy and stay in school. Reading in general is just so important. I also feel like, I enjoy reading SO much that I’d like my son to as well and it can be something we enjoy together. I fantasize about being able to share book suggestions with one another when he’s older and talking about books and debating over books that wield some new idea to us that we don’t see eye to eye upon. Maybe that sounds lame, but to me, that’s heaven! Ha-ha.