Reading and Imagination

This year is most exciting year for my 6 1/2 yrs old twin daughters. They're picking up many words than before. They're learning how to read everything. They even love my cellphone when I receive texts and would read them before I get to phone. LOL It's kind of scary that they could read almost everything where I can't hide from them anymore. LOL

This afternoon, we were watching the movie, Hugo and I love the story. It's beautiful story. If we had time machine, I would love to go back to 1940s because it's my favorite timeline with history, life, style and more. In that movie, 2 kids were talking about books and Sarah asked me about books and want to know how they created an adventures and imagination in their minds. I told her that the movie make it look real but your mind control the imagination when you read the book and you alone can create an imagination in your mind that no one can see. Just you! But you can share with us by drawing the imagination and that's what some artists do. The movie makers do that for us too by reading the stories and say I wanna make this movie and now we are watching Martin's movie. There are many ways that people decide to share their imaginations with us but some of them just keep it to themselves because it's their own worlds. Photographers take pictures of what they see in their mind and hope to capture to bring it to life for us to see.

I told Sarah today that if she read the book and she can create a movie in her mind. I told her that they write the story before they turn it into movie. After the movie was done, I pulled Sarah aside with her Junie B. Jones book and sat her on my lap and start reading slowly to her. I told her are you picture in your mind that you see a girl name Junie is telling you the story about her life and she's sitting in front of photographer to take a school picture in her dinosaur dress? Sarah said yes. I said keep reading and you will add characters, stuff and the whole story comes together in your mind. Faith jumped in and said what are you guys doing? I told her that I'm trying to help Sarah to create a imagination in her mind when she read the story. Faith said I want in too. So Faith got start on reading her book, Alice in Wonderland. I helped Faith out too.

The girls' books have few illustrations and I showed them my book that have no illustrations. I explained to them that I use my head to create characters, houses/buildings, forests and more. I told them it's like movie inside my head and before I go to sleep, I would play the movie in my head. You don't need TV or anyone to tell you what your imagination would tell you.

I asked them remember the movie, Bridge to Terabithia and how the boy and girl use their imagination to battle with goblins, trolls and birds. It's all in their heads and they were having fun. I used to be like them when I was younger, my brother and I would snuck into woods near our home and would run around in woods and playing.

Sophie have wild imagination and she doesn't need help. She's a dreamer just like me. She would tell me her dreams probably once or twice a week.

It's whole new world to my twin daughters on imagination, books and how to use their minds.

I told them I started reading the books at very young age (probably 7 or 8 yrs old) because my parents were very strict about TV and we only get couple hours every night, limit on playing video games and I can't hear music very well like you. I spent a lot time reading the books than watch TV. My family travel a lot on the weekends and during summer. The books save my life from boredom. Everywhere I go, you will see my nose in the books. Ask Grandma Lynn (my mom) about that. Girls were fantastic by my childhood story and how I grew up with different lifestyle from theirs.

I told them there are many, many, many, many, many stories out there that are waiting to be read. Murder, Mystery, Fantasy, Comedy and more.

Stories can be about food like Strawberry Shortcake.

Or could it be about fairies? Like Tinkerbell

Or castle in very far away land?

Or battle with dragon?

Detective stories? Like Nancy Drew

Murder mysteries?

Vampires/Monsters?
Romantic/Cupids? (that's my least liking to read)

Girls are so exciting to figure out what they want to read. Sarah want to read murder mystery. Faith want to read fantasy something like Strawberry Shortcake meet Tinkerbell. I can't wait to see what their interests are in when they get older. I'm gonna try to encourage them to read more than to watch TV all the times. I'm so exciting for them to introduce the whole world of stories. Now myself I miss reading because every quiet time I get, girls are always by my side or onto me. I need to get back into it again.