Livy and Egypt

I'm so excited because Livy has her first really specific learning interest. Before now, she has liked hearing me read books about nearly anything, and her choices were mostly random. But lately, she has take a real interest in Ancient Egypt. It started with a book I picked out at the library, just a general kids book on the Egyptians. She was fascinated. Since then, we have looked at some pictures on the internet, read every general book on Egypt in the children's department of our library, read a book on Hatshepsut (specifically requested by Livy, cause she was a girl who glued a beard on her face for ceremonies), watched the IMAX movie on Egypt, and we have several more books lined up (one of pyramids she got for her birthday, and one on archaeology (borrowed from Rational Jenn) cause it has pictures of mummies. I think we will also make a trip to the Carlos Museum at Emory University, which apparently has one of the best collections of Egyptian artifacts in America and MUMMIES! It really is too bad that she wasn't so interested in Egypt when we saw the King Tut exhibit traveling through Atlanta. She liked it, but now she would LOVE it. I'm sure it will make the rounds again some time.

Anyway, I think it is so cool to see her really interested in delving into a subject (and it's cool that it is a subject I think is really neat-o like history). I know the excitement of finding a new passion and exploring it until I'm sated, and I love seeing my child experience this for the first time. I also got her a book on the Ancient Romans, and I am thinking that reading about Cleopatra and Romanized Egypt might get her interested in other historical periods. We'll see. Whatever she is interested in next will be exciting, I'm sure.