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This has changed through the years. When she was a teeny baby, I'd read a portion of Alice in Wonderland to her every night. Once she was old enough to sit up with us while we read, we started with little picture books and board books like Sandra Boynton. Now we are on to other books - Little Golden Books, Nursery Rhymes and tales. At 3, she has to pick her books to read. We read 3 books with her in our room, on our bed, then we go into her room and I read her a book and then I leave and my husband has one on one time with her and reads her another.

The books we read just depended on what we felt like reading for a long time. We read our favorites and hid our least favorite books.

Oh and bedtime includes turning on the white noise machine, turning on the lamp that is next to the bed and reading by that. When my parents are here, we just turn on the overhead light because the lamp isn't too bright. We leave the light on all night (her request).

@Applesandbananas: do you have many books? We bought a ton at yard sales and consignment sales super cheap so we have a giant bookshelf full of kids books at this point. A wide range of books will give your son a bunch of options to choose from.

Xander usually picks his books, but he seems to really like Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, and Corduroy and reads those over and over again.

We used to read at a chair with a table light, but now we just read on the floor with the overhead lights on.

We just read 2-3 a night with the regular light on. Before we turned the overhead light off and just the light on the bookcase was on. But now we are reading to her in bed, it isn't enough light due the placement of furniture.

We have the overhead light on a dimmer so we make it very dim and put on the projector (stars on the ceiling). When he was a baby we always read Goodnight Moon and the Going to Bed book, but when he started to resist them we figured he was bored with the routine, so now I pick about 5 books and put them on his night table and he picks 3 of them to read (or if he's tired, we pick them). I change the books up every few days depending on what he seems to be loving and what I'm tired of.

We have shelves and shelves to choose from but she always picks the same ones! We use the light from the landing.... although, to be fair, I know them by heart so I can read them in the dark!

We always read either Snuggle Up Sleepy Ones or It's Time t Say Goodnight last. We usually read a book before that and it just changes. Sometimes she picks, sometimes I do. I leave the overhead light on. It isn't the last thing we do. We do books, then into the sleep sack, light out/white noise on, then sit down and rock her for a song, then into the crib.

At 3 months old, DD does not enjoy story time yet. But we have taken to reading a book or two to her while she's eating her bedtime bottle. We read in a rocking chair with a little lamp on the side table for light. All the overhead lights are off.