Two Wonderful Gifts.

Chance and I spent a few days at the apartment in Tampa last week and when we arrived we had two wonderful surprises waiting for us at the front door from Nana and Grandpa Von. Well, really they are for Chance but we can all enjoy them. I was thinking of setting them aside to open when Scott was in town but Chance is too smart for me, he immediately looked at the labels and said "It says Chance, it's for me".
The first box we opened contained a huge book on the human body. There are brilliantly colored pictures, charts, diagrams and more along with tons of wonderful information that will make this book so incredibly useful for years to come.



Chance opened it up and started to ask questions right away. He was very interested, so much so that he picked it to read at bedtime for the next two nights. It's a great book because it will grow with him. For bedtime now we read the captions for the pictures on 10 pages each night and talked about what was in each picture.



The next box we opened was full of even more wonderful surprises. There were 15 wonderful works of art, a box to store them and an easel to display one at a time. Each piece of art is a print of a masterpiece by a famous artist. The back of each print is full of information about the artist's life, the inspiration for this work and info about their other works as well.



The first thing Chance did was pop the bubble wrap that came in the package. Then he lay each piece of art on the floor all over the living room so we could look at each one. Then after looking them all over he chose the Van Gogh to put on the easel first, then we put the easel on his shelf. The plan is to display one piece as we read parts of the back for storytime and bedtime then when we finish reading we will pick a new piece of art to display.



A big thanks to Nana and Grandpa Von.