Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy!

I thought Hairy Maclary deserved it's own post since Josh loves it so much!

Here are Josh and his Granpa spending some quality time reading together. Josh LOVES Hairy Maclary! It's so cute! He got this book just before he was 4 months old and immediately began to love it. I wrap him up in his wrap and give him his dummy and read to him before naps and bedtime. Within a few days of having the book whenever I'd get to the part in the "Caterwaul Caper" story where it goes "Ro Ro Ro Ro Ro" for the bark belonging to Bottomley Potts Josh would spit out his dummy and laugh. And then he started to laugh just before that bit like he knew it was coming! Soon all I needed to do was turn to the page with Bottomley Potts on it and he'd start to laugh and wriggle around to watch my face make the cat noise and then the barking noise! It was so cute! He still loves all the Hairy Maclary stories and "Caterwaul Caper" is by far his favourite because it's full of dog barks and cat-stuck-up-a-tree noises, but he has stopped laughing at those parts so often now but will still wriggle around to see my face make the noises usually. He also loves the new Lynley Dodd book we got him called "Cats Whiskers" which has four stories about Slinky Malinki and Scarface Claw - but not as much as he loves his Hairy Maclary! I have read Hairy Maclary so many times to Josh now that I know nearly all six of the stories off by heart!