The Way She Does

Baby likes to turn the pages of the books we read. Sometimes she turns the cardboard pages at a leisurely pace, listening to the story with complete absorption. More often, she reaches her finger for the bottom right corner of the right-hand page and begins to turn just over a second since turning the previous page. Sometimes, I speed-read to keep up. Sometimes, I edit – heavily. And sometimes I don’t say a word and just watch the images go by, the way she does.