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I spent a good portion of the day today over at my parent’s place. My niece Lilly was visiting for the weekend, and we hadn’t given her a birthday present yet (her party was a couple weeks ago, but we couldn’t make it), so we figured it was a good chance to remedy the situation. As luck would have it, Eric and Renee were also visiting with Caitlyn, so it was a chance to see both of my nieces (as I’m going to think of Caitlyn) at once. :)

As I recently decided, being an Uncle is pretty darn cool. All of a sudden, I get to visit toy stores, buy little shoes the length of my thumb, and read books I haven’t seen in twenty years. It sort of rocks.

Take yesterday, for example. Amanda and I were in Ames sort of spur-of-the-moment to satisfy a long-standing King Buffet craving. Afterwards, we headed across the street to the Borders to pick up some books for Lilly’s third birthday. I managed to find a few of my favorite books from when I was that age, as well as rediscover a few I’d forgotten about. In the end, we settled on these seven:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where The Wild Things Are
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Tuesday
• Just Go To Bed
• When I Get Bigger
• Just Grandma and Me

I think that’s a pretty respectable library for a 3 year old. Do any of you have any favorites from when you were a kid that I should know about? There’s no reason I couldn’t start stocking up for next Christmas. :)