F, true to her usual, ever-active, never slowing down, I think her mind races when she sleeps...embraces morning with some warm pumpkin-spice milk (a la Mommy) and poster paint! She asks "Mommy, how do you like my lavender?"
Mommy says: I think it is a pretty funky shade.
F is pleased and happily continues on creating many lovely colors and mixing them up with her palms :)
Waking up continued...
M, wrapped in a huge fleece blanket on the porch asks: "How heavy is air?"
Mommy says: "Huh???" (while the wheels in my head start turning, with what seems to me to be an audible squeal, and the whole time I am thinking...Geez where does she come up with these questions at such an early hour? Help...Google maybe?
M asks: Mommy do you spell "at" with an A and a T?
Mommy replies: Yes honey, you are so smart! While my heart smiles. Little did I know that she could really read and that she was only checking with me to be sure she was correct.
A little later M and I head out to breakfast on our little date. M has been learning to read all by herself, well she has a book that she is learning from, but she does it all.by.herself! Anyway, she brought the book to breakfast so that she could read to me. I am absolute shocked and amazed at how far she is in the book. She just started yesterday, seriously, and she has completed 21 lessons, and she is really reading! Unpressured and unhindered by me of course.
I am so impressed by her determination! In my house we have readers all over the board. Z read when he was almost 10 yo, B read when she was 4 yo, P is 9 almost 10 and has just started to take off this year, F is 8 and is still only 1/2 and 1/2 interested, M just turned 7 and is off and running.
I have learned for my family (and I suspect all children)over the years that to push is to frustrate and to wait for them to be ready is always perfect timing! I am so glad that they read with no pressure and that they all love books whether they read them or if I read them aloud. I have happy readers!
Well, we left the restaurant and were in the car driving to drop off some movies and there she is in the back seat reading to me! She stopped now and then to ask me if she was right. I told her that I was so proud of her. Then she says "I am proud of me too!" How sweet, my little reader!
Lastly, M asked me if she could put the movies in the drop box, because the older kids usually do it and she hasn't ever had a chance. So of course I said yes. She was so thrilled, grinning from ear to ear as she turned to look back at me carrying all the movies. Sometimes the smallest things make the biggest joys.
Each day, morning, noon and night they remind me of why I do what I do! Hope your children remind you daily why you do what you do. Have a wonderful day!
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