Therapy Session

We do not read to Poppy often enough, and I know that that's really bad.  It's just that I find it tedious; I don't read fiction personally, and kid books are fiction.  I'm very American in that regard.  You know how it goes: 'no time to waste, must learn things and improve self'.  

So, while Poppy's little books are cute and the illustrations can be entertaining and all, I still find them too tedious to read to her on a nightly basis.  I'd say that I probably only read to her 4 or 5 times per week.  These sessions generally begin with a reading from Bisou (by Benoît Charlat): 

followed by a Hairy Maclary book (by Lynley Dodd):

this one is actually pretty fun. there's a dachshund
named Schnitzel von Krumm ('with a very low tum')

Do you remember that split-screen scene in Annie Hall where we experience Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in their respective therapy sessions?

Alvie's therapist:  'How often do you sleep together?'

Annie's therapist:   'Do you have sex often?'

Alvie:  'Hardly ever, maybe 3 times per week.' 

Annie:  'Constantly, I'd say 3 times per week.'

I'm fairly certain that, if Poppy had a more advanced language capacity and if we both had therapists, a split-screen scene of our therapy sessions would play out in a similar fashion:

My therapist:  'How often do you read to her?'

Poppy's therapist:  'Does she read to you often?'

me:  'Hardly ever, maybe 5 times per week.'

Poppy:  'Oh my goodness...constantly.  I'd say 5 times per week.'

http://www.amazon.fr/Bisou-Beno%C3%AEt-Charlat/dp/284865564X/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379347507&sr=1-5&keywords=bisous

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hairy-Maclary-Donaldsons-Dairy-Friends/dp/0670913502/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379347930&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hairy-Maclary-Zachary-Quack-Friends/dp/0141381132/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379347488&sr=1-4&keywords=harry+maclary