Summer "reading"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1433528126/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1581349297&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1YSZPTTDNYHNNM41N3AS

One of the things I like about staying in other people's houses is the chance to peruse their bookshelves. I'm very nosy about stuff like that (How oh how can I do this in the age of the Kindle???)

The place we are staying now does not have a ton of books but there is an interesting selection. The link above is one that I am currently "reading". I put that in quotations because I'm not quite sure I actually want to read it all the way. I look at the contents, preface, dedication, index and author bio and then flip through chapters here and there. All in all, the topic is one that I haven't formally considered but a nascent form it has been rolling around in my mind the last 6 months or so. (I'm so sorry to use the word nascent, but I really couldn't think of a more pedestrian word.)

I've been prodded into thinking about this because Layla is getting older and much much more aware of what is going on around here. When we sing songs either in church or with the radio, she constantly is stopping to ask me what this phrase or that phrase means. When I get off the phone she says "Tell me what happened! What did Aunt Vic say!!??" She hears what I say and understands only fragments but wants me to put the pieces together. Then there are the hysterical times she tries to sing/explain bible stories to me. She will be in her room doing her own thing and I'll start to hear the following:
Jesus loooooooves uuuuuuus
Heeee dieeeeeeeed for us.
(you get the point of the singing:)
dolly died and rose again
mommy loves us
Daddy died for us...
on and on and on (=

Point being, my little one is fast creating her biblical and worldview with wild abandon (= Granted, we have a lot of control over what she hears but that doesn't mean she'll put the pieces together in a true format.

So anyway. Here we are on the cusp of thinking about helping Layla develop spiritually and socially/academically/etc. I did NOT think one started this at 3.5 years of age, but there we go. For some reason I thought this stuff was further down the road. I guess every parent says that though!