Book cozy

The new book cozy in our spare bedroom closet.

For now there's my mom's CD/tape player. We're getting a wall-mount CD player soon.

An oversized bear serves the function of a nice pillow/chair to lean against. Madeline prefers to lay on her stomach facing the speakers though.

It's always nice to turn a non-functional space into a useful area. Our spare bedroom only gets used for a few purposes: jumping on the bed, late nights with Anna, and for storage of extra junk. Oh and the occassional visitor! I decided it was high-time to get rid of the junk. I cleaned out the room and made a book cozy for the girls. Here are some in-process pictures of our new book cozy. I'd been thinking about doing this for two years. Madeline spent quite a bit of time in it this weekend. My hair-brained idea started to become reality on Saturday afternoon and by Sunday morning, it was ready for operation. Maddie can enter the room, select a book and pop in the CD independently and enjoy following along in the book. It's intended to be an independent space where they can enjoy pre-recorded readings with page turning prompts.

In the next few days we're going to buy a wall-mounted CD player, Ryan will make wall-mounted shelves to hold the books with attached CD's and we may paint the inside of the closet walls with something fun. I plan to read the books into my MP3 player and attach a CD to each of the books. It's fun to borrow them from the library too.