The Hudson read three stories for Katie’s class!

Katie’s teacher sent a YouTube video of her reading a story so I asked the kids if they wanted to do one…and to my surprise they both said yes. Katie whines and complains so much about reading that I was FLOORED that she was excited to do it. She knew exactly the book she wanted to read (they’ve read it in class), she knew what one I should read (an old favorite), and Owen knew what one he wanted immediately.

Kidisms 48

I’ve really been slacking on these. So the first one is really old and the second one is new.

Me: Katie, you need to pick up your room a bit.
Katie: Mom, the reason I’m not going in my room right now is because my stomach hurts.
Me: Then I guess we’re not going to the pool today.
Katie: A LITTLE. It just hurts a little.
Me: Good. So go pick up your room.

Scene: Katie looking for a library book that she has lost.
Me: You need to look for the book.
Katie: But I don’t know where it is.
Me: I know. That’s why you need to look.
She looks half-heartedly in 2.5 places.
Katie: I can’t find it.
Me: Well you need to keep looking.
Katie, whining: BUT I DON’T KNOW WHERE IT IS.

Last campfire before school

We wanted to have a fire with Papa and Grannie but needed some firewood so we actually found some free on NextDoor… Yay!

The kids caught a few lightning bugs (it’s in there, trust me).

After we made s’mores we got the fire going a bit crazy. 

The kids finally settled down and were cuddling of their own free will. 

Then they were trying to read by bug light. 

What a perfect night…

The weather was so awesome that we ate dinner outside and then just hung out. Tom rarely posts on Facebook so you know something was seriously good if he does…

Had a great Spring day. Took the kids out Pokémon hunting in the morning. Wood working followed by little league practice (pitching to an awesome group of kids), grilling flank steak and drinking really good beer on the deck and watching my wonderful kids play together and read bed time stories.

Truly I do not know if life can get any better. Life is great!

Owen was reading to us (getting his daily reading homework done!) and then it got dark so he was reading by iPhone light. The two books he picked to read to Katie were Hooray for Diffendoofer Day (Seuss) and The History of the American Flag. 🙂

Goofing around together:

 

Catching up on his summer reading.

Owen isn’t great about keeping up with his Summer Slide reading, so we’ve had to have some days where we read 40-60 pages to try and catch up. (It’s not as bad as it sounds—it’s not like he’s reading full chapter book pages. Some of them are, but some are also books for Katie with one sentence per page. So it averages out.) Notice he had a buddy today, as well.

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