Goodnight Imagination

Goodnight Moon was a gift from Uncle Aaron for Avery's first Christmas. This book was first published in 1947, so it is somewhat of a classic.  My brothers and I can remember having this book read to us as kids, and I'm sure my parents had it read to them as kids too.

(Of course Aaron had to embellish the book a little bit):

So anyway, this morning Josh was reading the book to Avery.  Midway through, he starts ranting about what a stupid book it is. I countered that it is NOT a stupid book, and how dare he say such a thing. The dialogue went something like this:
Josh: Okay, I get that they're saying goodnight to everything in the room, but that's just stupid. I mean, these are bunnies. And they have a pet squirrel?

Kristen: Those are kittens.

Josh: Whatever. Okay so the bunnies have pet kittens. That's ridiculous.  And the mittens and socks that they have hanging up in the room are way too big for them. And the mittens have THUMBS. Do bunnies have thumbs? REALLY?

Kristen: You have no imagination.
Josh (to Avery): Miss, we are not reading this ridiculousness.

Kristen: Yes, we will be reading this.  It is a cute book. Do you want her to have no imagination?

Josh: And the bowl of mush has a spoon in it. Because bunnies use spoons. Because they have opposable thumbs. Right.

At that point I was laughing too hard to continue arguing with him.  It doesn't matter at this point anyway, because every book that we try to read to Avery

turns into a meal for the T-Rex about 2 pages in.

More T-Rexing of reading material from this morning: