Megan's Favorite Book on CD

For the past week this has been my daughter's favorite book on CD to listen to and follow along. She's listened to this story and followed along in the book several times. She loves it! Plus she's almost at the kindergarten age. She'll be 5 at the end of march. Megan really enjoy's the Picture books on CD.

Change your brain,change your body: Use your brian to get and keep the body you have always wanted

I just saw this guy on The Rachel Ray show this morning. I hardly watch tv shows during the day. This book and what he talked about makes a lot of sense. He talks a lot about how we think about food. Though not everyone does the same things. That we need the right formula (diet,exercise) for the type of brain we have. For example if we have a lot of anxiety when it comes to eating. We need to be on a well balanced diet. eating 4 to 5 small meals a day. lean protein.carbs and supplements too. Taking a fish oil pill is really important. He talks about 5 different ways people think about food. If there impulsive, depressed. anxiety, ect..

In this book, Dr. Amen reveals his breakthrough approach that will allow you to harness your brain’s power to improve your body’s overall appearance and function. As his studies show, a healthy brain is the key to a better body and a better life. Your brain is the command and control center for your body, and your brain function is directly related to how your body looks, feels, and functions. If you want to lose the love handles, you have to get better frontal lobes. You want to say goodbye to all those headaches? You have to calm your brain. Turn back the clock and get rid of those wrinkles? You have to start by rejuvenating your brain.

When your brain isn’t functioning properly, that dysfunction manifests itself in your physical body. Because you can’t see your brain, however, you don’t do anything to fix the problem at its source, leading you to adopt quick fixes and temporary solutions that ultimately fail. In CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY, however, Dr. Amen takes you inside the brain to show you the ways in which you can harness its power to create the body you have always wanted. Whether you want to tighten your tummy, have younger-looking skin, boost your energy level, stop getting so many colds, or lower your blood pressure without having to take medicine, Dr. Amen’s eighteen easy-to-follow solutions will have you well on your way to success. Sample chapters include:
The Craving Solution — Use Your Brain to Increase Your Willpower and Calm the Urges That Prevent You From Achieving Your Goals
The Weight Solution — Use Your Brain to Achieve Your Optimal Weight
The Nutrition Solution — Feed Your Brain to Look and Feel Younger
The Focus and Energy Solution — Boost Your Energy to Stay on Track toward Your Goals
The Stress Solution — Relax Your Brain to Reduce Your Wrinkles and Improve Your Immune System
The Heart Solution — Use Your Brain to Strengthen and Soothe Your Heart
One size does not fit all, however, and CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR BODY helps each individual reader navigate their brain to identify areas in need of improvement. Dr. Amen provides a customized, tailored approach to making positive changes, through treatments such as vitamin therapy, relaxation exercises, and physical activities, that will improve the way you look and feel. The brain controls everything you do: how you think, how you feel, how you act, and how you look. In order to get the body you have always wanted, your brain must work right and Dr. Amen shows you how to improve your brain’s health so you can have a better body.

In order to realize your goals in any area of life, your brain must work right and Dr. Amen shows you how to improve your brain’s health so that change can transcend into every facet of your life.

Books on my list to Read for the next while.

Seventeen year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father… until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms – first love, the love between parents and children – that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts… and heal them. The movie..will be out on March 31st staring Miley Cyrus and Greg Kinnear.

Jane Margaux is a lonely girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't saty forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leaves, promising her that she'll forget him soon.Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother. Then she meets a man, a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect—Sundays at Tiffany's is a heartrending love story that surpasses all expectations of why these people have been brought together momentum and gripping emotional twists that have made James Patternson a bestseller all over the world, Sundays at Tiffany's takes an altogether fresh look at the timeless and transforming power of love.

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Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on “girls who cry wolf” for the season premiere of Hourglass, television’s highly rated news magazine. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days had been disbelieved by the authorities.

No sooner does Diane finish taping the interview, though, than a second victim disappears. The small community, already in the grip of a record heat wave, is now wracked by fear and terror -— no one knows who could be next. With only the first victim as eyewitness, Diane and the police turn to her for clues. But it may be too late to save Diane and her loved ones from the mortal danger that lurks in Ocean Grove.

Full of twists, turns, and terrifyingly real danger, Dancing in the Dark is summer reading at its most suspenseful yet.

Scream Street by Tommy Donbavand

Well besides Junie B. Jones books and Magic Tree House books, Wimpy kid diary, i've finally found another chapter book series that my 9 year old son actually really likes.There are 8 books in the series,Though the last three books i've not been able to find at the local library at least. My son just started reading the first book..scream street:the fang of the vampire. 2.blood of the witch, 3. heart of the mummy,4.flesh of the zombie,5. skull of the skeleton,6. claw of the werewolf,7. invasions of the normals.8. attack of the trolls..which won't be out until April of the year 2010. Who knows if there will be more books coming.

Three favorite recent picture books...

In the past week or so i've come across these three Great books. 20 hungry piggies is a really good numbers book. My 4 year old daughter loves it! The book Moose on the Loose... is great for learning about rhymes and the illustrations are wonderful. Then last..Edgar,Allen and Poe and the Tell-Tale Beets..is just a very cute story. You'll have to read it to find out the sneaky and creative way the boys hide the food they don't want to eat at dinner time. Plus it has a funny ending to it as well.

My favorite ABC book so far..

Yesterday I found this cool ABC book at the library called. Alphabeasties and other AmaZing Types by Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss. Every letter has an animal that starts with each letter of the alphabet and with each letter they use all letter Aa's to form an alligator. they do this for all the letters. Its a very cute book, especially for your preschooler to learn the alphabet in a new and fun way.

My favorite Getting Healthy book

I love this book. I really didn't think i'd ever say that. I've always known that you have to eat good and exercise to be your best. This book has put all those questions of how much of this and that should i eat each day and when and how much. Christine Avanti is a top Los Angeles nutritionist. Her plan is so simple. You eat 4 small meals a day. first meal, breakfast must be eaten in the first hour of waking up and then every 3 to 4 hrs after that. So my last meal is around 6pm. Which is great you don't want to eat too late. Of course you have to portion size your little meals. She calls them PC combo's. Having a lean protein( fish,chicken,lion meats) with a healthy carb-,nuts, whole wheat pasta,whole grain rice,ect. The protein portion size is 4 oz. and the carb portion size is 3/4 a cup. She has lots of great and simple recipes in this book. Plus she talks a lot about our body's and how we need so much of certain foods.Plus she incorporates fruits and veggies in each meal as well. She recommends taking a multi vitamin each day with drinking 8 to 10 glasses of water each day and exercising 30 to 60 minutes 4 or 5 times a week.

It only takes a moment by Maryjane Clark

Eliza Blake discovers that nothing can prepare you for what is every mother's horrifying nightmare: the phone call announcing that your child has been kidnapped. When seven-year-old Janie is snatched from her summer camp, the whole country stays glued to their television sets, anxiously awaiting the news that their favorite morning television personality's little girl has been found. With each passing day, the FBI and local authorities track down every lead: a profile of the kidnapper's most likely characteristics is developed, every fan letter written to Eliza over the last six months is re-read and analyzed, every child sex offender registered within a 50-mile radius is interviewed, and psychics from around the country appear on Eliza's doorstep to offer their help.

The "Sunrise Suspense Society" must re-convene and dedicate themselves to finding Janie before it's too late.

This was a great book! very well written..i had a difficult time putting it down.

My kids love Mo Willems books

Almost every time i take my kids to the library. They have to get at least a couple Mo Willems books.He is also the author of Don't let the pigeon drive the bus and The knuffle bunny and knuffle bunny too which are great kid books as well.