Do little girls do this?

The boys have completely destroyed nearly every book in the house that has flaps or makes noise. And by destroy, I mean destroy.

Do little girls destroy books like this? I'm guessing not. 

And I know what you're thinking. If you (a responsible adult) read the books with them you can prevent this from happening.

Wrong! 

With 20 of the busiest fingers you've ever seen and drool running out by the bucket load, this is not preventable. 

I have mentally started a list of replacement books I want to buy for when the boys are over the "eating" stage of book reading.

The books below were all gifts I believe. At first I felt bad that the boys have destroyed them. But in reality - it is much better this way than sitting on a shelf and not being used, right!?

This page, which previously had 3 flaps, also makes noise. 

Our flap collection, less what we ate.

Luckily Mom has the words memorized to this book, titled "10 Little Ladybugs", so we don't even miss this page.

This poor puppy. There are about 10 other poor puppies in this book with the same fate.

Notice the page says, "can you pat it?" 

Clearly the answer is "yes", we can pat it...and scratch it, eat it, lick it, and rub it.

While the other books described above are still deemed to be safe, I decided this one needed to be retired once I discovered the exposed wires.