Cheerful Abundance

Nothing gets my heart racing like a home overflowing with books. People who read and cherish books are people with big imaginations: dreamers, and scientists alike, and people that keep books keep knowledge that can endure for centuries.As a kid, I designed libraries, sketching the plans in the back of my notebooks in school. Libraries with turrets, with rolling ladders, and with leather seats. Some had skylights, others had secret doors behind bookshelves. All of them were fabulous, I can assure you. As an adult, I take inspiration from these libraries, the people who built them, and the bloggers, like Bookshelves and Late Fees and Bookshelf Porn and F*ck Yeah, Books that dedicate themselves to blogging about bookshelves. I could spend HOURS pouring/drooling over the pics on those blogs!

Via F*ck Yeah Bookshelves.

A secret room behind a bookshelf. My childhood (and adulthood) dream!

Here, M shows off her awesome standing skills.

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Are you reading a book? Oh, you’re EATING a book? Ah, well, we like to see a lot of fibre in your diet. Also….I’m gonna get you!

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Don’t you like our new design style? Its called – babyproofing, and man, nothing makes your house uglier than babyproofing.

And already devouring French sociology. Who doesn’t love to read a little Bourdieu in the morning?

Although he is no match for a good Barnyard Dance. These books are so funny – we read them to the girls, and at some point, they grab them from us and start achewing on them. And sometimes they open the books up, look at the pictures, and babble. Imitating us? Maybe.

Lately, we are doing a lot of hanging out, and getting the hang of sitting up.

My baby is all grown up! Ack!

We credit her lovely skin to the numerous oatmeal masques she applies – one each morning, all by herself!

She has at least 9 teeth already. But look at that happy grin – how adorable is that face?