My original goal for the year was 80 books—now I need to pick a new goal!
Really good follow up to Holes. Recommend! Now to get Katie to read it.
Book 80 of 2023
Category Archives: Books & Reading
Trying to start new habits over summer.
After he picked out books, he wanted to play. I haven’t played in 30 years. I lost in under a minute.
They are always super excited to pick out the books, then they sit in a pile until it’s time to return them. This summer phone use will be tied to reading…
Book 20 of 2023
A rare Katie reading sighting
I told her to take a book to baseball and she did…and actually read it!
Bookmobile in our neighborhood!
Imagine my surprise when I was out on my walk and saw this!
The three musketeers.
Just the girls!
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.
Today she finally finished Harry Potter!
She’s an amazing reader but trying to get her to do her daily 20 minutes of reading homework is worse than pulling teeth. But today she finally finished Harry Potter!
Reading with Charlie
Katie met Mudge!
Or at least a lookalike dog. 🙂
Friends were dogsitting and as soon as Katie saw him she thought of Mudge. 🙂
I think these helped her read to gramma.
This is the look of someone who does NOT want to read.
Katie’s homework involves 15 minutes of reading a day plus maybe 5 minutes or so of math if they didn’t finish in class. You’d think she was being asked to do something horrible. Some days it goes well, but most days we end up with attitude. It’s exhausting.
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.
Library time!
It was supposed to be a quick trip to get a few books to read before school started. But they have so much fun looking for books…and then Owen found a friend. So how could I make them leave?
I told them they better not tell me they’re bored once this week.
Owen reading “Dog Man” to Maggie. 💗
Owen said he wanted to read to Maggie so he thought she’d like “Dog Man.” 🙂
Reading Dick and Jane
Gramma gave Katie this book for Christmas—it was the same book she learned to read on. We finally got it out and she is blasting through it!
Owen was alao reading at the same time.
She wanted to read to me this morning.
I thought she was just going to make up a story to go with the pictures but she was actually reading it! Of course she couldn’t read it all but she did pretty well.
Cuddling and reading by the fire
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.
Reading to Gramma
Of course I got grief first about having to treat but once he got started he enjoyed it.
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:
He complains loudly about reading to her but once he starts he has fun.
Owen was poetry helper this week.
Heading back to class…on the second floor!!
A Katie-sized book and a Katie-craft!
We went to a new play group on base with friends. Katie loved the size of this book and the sticker craft (which had 3x as many stickers by the time she was done).
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.
Reading trio
It took some convincing but Owen was reading to us!
A book from Grannie
Grannie gave Katie one of the books they read while we were there and Grannie had Katie write her name in the front of it. 🙂
Reading and games with Grauntie and Gramma
Owen reading his homework to Grauntie Marge and Katie beating Gramma Jean at her favorite game!
My library helper!
One last story from Papa
