One love

I'm happy to have a storytime break, but I think having this long stretch of storytimes really helped me to build relationships with my Wonderful Ones. The last few weeks have been particularly joyful as the kids seem to light up with recognition at some of the routine activities we do.



Liam learned how to point to his cheeks and Sadie through up her arms and shouted Hooray during If You're Happy and You Know It, Braden and Michael gently rocked their stuffies during Rock a Bye Your Bear, and Cameron made sure everyone cleaned up and brought the box to me. Most of my Ones would smile big, when I would say their name during Hickledy Pickledy Bumblebee, and moms, dads and tots seemed to perk up whenever we did Open them Shut them.



If you've done Ones before, you know how the littlest thing is worth celebrating. They start off so deadpan, that you're sure that everything you're doing is just wrong and you're the worst storyteller ever. So when they start to imititate Where is Thumbkin by putting their whole hand up and trying to make their fingers move one at a time, it's immensely gratifying. Twos have always been my favorite, but now I love my Ones.