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Merry Christmas Eve!

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The dog, as I got ready to go to work.

Hope your Christmas Eve morning is as cozy as Jett‘s! 🎄 Next year, I‘m asking Santa to make me a dog…

More books for tiny tots!

My nephews, 2 & 4, are getting (mostly) bug books. If I can‘t fully conquer my own fear, I can at least inoculate the next generation. 😅

Books are being paired with some Lakeshore Learning toys, including an updated version of one of those old school viewmasters! They can click between 35 different photos of insects and spiders. 🕷️🐛🦋

Oh yes, Shea is definitely best experienced in the full rainbow. I love that Unicorn thinks Goat is pretty great, and Goat thinks Unicorn is pretty great, but there is something a little concerning about Unicorn putting himself down in the same breath that he's admiring Goat's qualities. Goat thinks Unicorn is great, but does Unicorn know that? Unicorn seems like a happy beast, so I assume I'm reading too much into it. 1/2

These endpapers make me wish I could find the pattern in fabric. Happy little cupcakes! 🧁☺️

Currently devouring Bob Shea's picture books, amd went for the seasonally appropriate next. Dinosaur is definitely meant for very young readers given the simplicity of the narrative, and Shea's colourful palette is somewhat restricted by sticking primarily to a red and green motif, but I love the switch between snarly face and truly adorable expressions, and there's something inspiring in the 'roar about it but get shit done' tackling of to-dos.

Such nostalgia for the time when my height dictated the ornament distribution on the tree. ☺️

Bob and his birds! 🥰 Shea's glorious use of colour is on full display, accompanied by another sweet and silly tale, this time featuring an hilarious attempt at sneakiness and a charmingly clueless journey to a change of heart.