"I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."

[mamajoan]

According to pregnancy.org's week-by-week description of fetal development, brain growth is accelerating right now. It says, "Don't forget to continue to "teach" your baby in the womb by exposing to music, literature, and simply talking to him." Exposing to literature?? Am I supposed to be reading Shakespeare to my belly? wtf?

Well, the closest we're likely to get is Cosmo listening in on me reading That's Not My Truck to Isaac. So it's not exactly War and Peace, but it's gonna have to do. Then again, I never read War and Peace to Isaac in utero either, and he turned out pretty well so far. :P

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[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Is That's Not My Truck anything like Where's My Cow?, I wonder?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. Coincidentally I just finished Thud this weekend.

Actually, That's Not My Truck is part of a series that we have several of (That's Not My Dinosaur, That's Not My Dog) and they are really great board books for little ones. They're tactile, with a different texture to touch on each page, and nice thick sturdy pages. We love 'em. I think I have a bunch more on my Amazon wishlist.

The plots aren't as complex as Where's My Cow? though. ;) It's pretty much "that's not my truck, its ___ is too ___," repeat several times, and then "That's my truck! Its ____ is so ____!"

[lbmango.livejournal.com]

Actually, that sounds a lot like Where's my Cow?

I mean with out the "millenium hand and shrimp"

(which, come to think of it, isn't in Wikipedia's list of fictional curse words...)

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

Do you have Where's My Cow? We spent a while after we read it coming up with a more personal version.

"Where's my daddy? Is that my daddy? It says, "Hello, cat-friend!" That is jeffry_wynne, that's not my daddy!" Etc.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

LOL. No, I don't have it, although the last time I went to Amazon, it was listed on their "things we think you might like" page.

We play that kind of game all the time though. It's one of Isaac's favorite games, to say something that isn't true and then go "Noooo!" So like if we're putting on his socks I'll say, "You have three socks because you have three feet!" and he says "Nooooo!" and I say, "no, that's not right, you have three ears!" and he says "Nooooo!" and so forth. And then lately he adds, "I only have two ears, silly mama!"

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And tonight on Babystereophonovision^TM we have Orson Welles reading L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth". Enjoy!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Augh! I think that could quite reasonably be deemed child abuse.

[ima-omi.livejournal.com]

Give me a farking break! I think if you send Cosmo to Latin for Babies right after birth, s/he should be able to catch up.

[glamsith.livejournal.com]

I've always loved the mental image of pregnant-belly wearing headphones. I know, I'm wrong. But ever since earbuds became popular, 've wondered how you're supposed to get them to stay on. Tape? Tight-fitting clothes? The power of the music compels them cling with ardent bliss?