Aug. 23, 2005
My little reader!
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I'm
so proud of dd! She used to resist reading so hard and now here
she is reading chapter books and going through them like they're
candy! What's even cuter is that the "series" she's fallen in
love with is the Carolyn Haywood "Betsy" books. Could I get any
more nostalgic? She read "B is For Betsy" in less than 2 days and
started immediately on "Betsy's Little Star." That took her 2
days and last night, she started "Betsy and Mr. Kilpatrick."
Those are the only Betsy books I have, so I ordered some off of Amazon
and boy is she ever excited! Me too, actually ;-). I have
other Carolyn Haywood books, but she doesn't want to read those right
now. Just Betsy. I know she's reading, too, and not just paging through, because she's been telling me all about what's going on. I
was cracking up y'day at her, after getting over a couple of
double-takes. The first thing that made me just grin was I walked
by the bathroom and there she was, perched on the "throne" with her
book on her lap. And reading intently. If you know me,
that's me completely. I feel lost if there is no reading material
in the bathroom, even if I'm only there for a minute LOL. Later,
I walked by her room and she was laying on her bed on her side, head
resting on one hand. One leg was propped high in the air with the
foot from the other leg. ROTFL because I used to do that ALL the
time as a kid! It was not a conscious thing, either. I'd be
watching TV or reading or whatever and my leg would be propped in the
air. My mom used to, too. So funny. Maybe you had to
be there, though ;-).
Since we're on our break from school, I have let her read "just one chapter" at bedtime for the last few nights and she's been very diligent about putting the book away and turning the light off after that particular chapter is done. I can't believe she's going to be 7 so soon. Yikes, but time flies. Edge is just itching to be able to get his military ID when he turns 10. He's so excited that it's now "less than 1.5 yrs away!" ACK! What the heck? That's not that much time and I'll have a 10yo?! Whoo-ee is that ever a weird feeling. |
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