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Marvin K Mooney redux
When Theo was a one year old his favorite book was Dr. Seuss's Marvin K Mooney Will You Please Go Now: it was required bed time reading. Now that baby brother Francis is of that age Theo is starting to read it himself, at least in theory to Francis. Here are two readings, from August 2004 and October 2006.
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What a wonderful reading! Tim (my 20-month-old) is just now starting to ask for books by name. He's been able to show preference among books presented to him, but tonight's the first night he's said, "Bye-bye!" to all the choices I gave him and asked for a different book by name. Exciting times!
I also followed your link about chosing baby names. I too consulted the most chosen names (although I did not do the indepth analysis of falling popularity of names) before we settled on names. Our original choice for our child and what we ended up choosing once we saw the child and figured out what name really suited him were neither among the top whatever-number that Social Sec Admin publishes. However, you cite Herbert as a falling-popularity name, and we were never considering that name -- Carrie's dad was Herbert Stites Glasby III and we were just not going to follow that trend...
Kathleen K.
Philadelphia PA
Hi Kathleen,
Thanks for stopping by. It's always fascinating to watch little kids develop, especially how they develop differently. As the first part of the video demonstrates, by one Theo was incredibly into reading books, getting all excited by the whole prospect. The second part of the video features a 14-month Francis lying prone through much of his big brother's recitation (until he roused himself to upset a drawer of blocks, a scene I edited out!).
We too decided to end a family naming tradition. On my father's side it had become the custom to swap first and middle names for each generation, so that I'm Martin John and my father was John Martin. We had no desire to keep this going for many reasons so when Julie mentioned Theo, the name of a favorite great uncle, it seemed perfect. Plus the whole "gift of God" or "lover of God" meaning and who can argue with "Theodore Seuss Geisel":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Seuss?
My kids are 8 and 10, and I still have that entire book memorized -- that one, and a good dozen more. Every now and then, snippets flip through my brain.
Great little bit of video!
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Absolutely wonderful! Marvin K Mooney is one of my all-time favorites, Emily and I actually recite parts of it to each other regularly!
That is absolutely adorable. Thanks, Martin. :-)