Monday, June 18, 2012

The curse of the bologna sandwich

I'm so excited.

We have a reader.  A READER!  And he takes after his mama. :)

I took Nate and Nile to the library on Saturday to pick up some books, and convinced Nate to look at some chapter books.  I found a superhero series that I thought he would love:

This book is 138 pages, and 18 chapters.  Nate read the whole book in less than an hour and a half.  He read for 20 minutes last night before bed, then woke up this morning at 6:30 am and read the rest, before coming into our room at 7:15 to tell us he was finished.

I'll be honest, we didn't think he had read it all.  So I quizzed him on parts of the story.

Yeah, he read it all.

Now we're on a quest to find Book 2, which the Geneseo library doesn't have (I've requested it through inter-library loan).  For the life of me I will never understand why they have books 1, 3, 4, and 5 of a series and don't have number 2.

Nate also got two DC Comics chapter books that he read in an hour on Saturday.  I wasn't sure if he had actually read them either, but now I'm convinced.  He's just a speed reader like his mother.  I thought we'd at least have enough books for a week with those three.  Guess we need to go back to the library!

If my biggest problem is keeping him occupied with enough books, I will gladly drive him to every library to find books for him to read.

I am so excited right now. 

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Prairie Progress

This is year 3 of our prairie creation project. It's supposed to be a minimum of a 5 year process, but finally we are starting to see progress. Last night I went out to the prairie to see lots of new variety!
Bluebird eggs in our bluebird house
Gray headed coneflower
Evening primrose
Blue false indigo
Black eyed Susan
Rough Blazing Star
Aster
Wild black raspberries!
Foxglove

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Sweetest. Picture. Ever.

Floating boats

What could be better on a hot summer day than a water table? (Okay, maybe a sprinkler, but this not-quite-walking kid isn't quite ready to run through sprinklers)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Goose Egg

This is what happened when I tried to call into a meeting for a few hours while I let the boys watch TV.  Mom of the year award nominee, right here.

When I asked what happened, Nile told me that Novak "hit the table."  I'm still not sure exactly how, but it looks awful.  Don't worry, he stopped crying pretty quickly.  It just looks bad.