I eat books for breakfast

I continue to be amazed by this young one's interest in reading. 

Wednesday, when the boys were home on their sixth snow day in five weeks, Tom pulled out the first Harry Potter book. 

A little over 24 hours later...

Mini-me

2 PM and he's choosing to read. :)

Bookworm

This is a pretty common sight in our house, even at 6:15 am. 

Rainy Sunday Morning

Back in mid-September, as we (finally) got a bit of rain, Novak snuggled in with me under a blanket in our recliner to read. 

45 minutes later...this is the pile of books we read. 

He loves books!

The saga continues...

Update: It's 5:45 pm and the only thing Nate has stopped reading for is to eat dinner and shower. He was even reading in the bathroom partially dressed...

An unexpected journey.

I'm sure every mom feels this way from time to time...my heart wants to explode with pride and love at the sight of this image.

Yes, he's reading The Hobbit. :). Reason #1 why I am so happy.

Reason #2? He's been in this chair for an hour now while his brothers rain chaos down around him.

I love this child.

I love this. More than you know.

Tom snapped this picture on the playground this morning. 

In Tom's words, "He chooses a book to read - the other boy is playing with his Nintendo DS."

My heart is soaring - I love this child.

Welcome sight

I'll never get tired of seeing this in our house...

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. 

Sweetest. Picture. Ever.

Early riser

I want to be frustrated with Novak when he wakes us up at 5:15 am. But it's hard to stay mad at a little person who just wants to snuggle and read books.

Bookworm

Novak loves to read.

I love to read to Novak. :)

Budding Reader

Last week Nate's kindergarten class took a field trip to the library.  At the library, they found out that they could get their own library card when they were 5.  They also got to go "behind the scenes" and see what goes on at the library.  He thought this was pretty cool.

Nate came home and asked Tom if "mommy would take me to the library to get a library card?"

Um, like I had to think about this one.  Of course!  He was so excited.  He told me about how we would get him a card, and that he would get to pick out books, and we talked a lot about what type of books he wanted to get.

We were planning to go on Monday.  But Nile was sick, and Tom was out of town.  I didn't relish the thought of taking Nate to the library with a sick 4 year old, a fussy baby, and no backup parent.  So I promised him that we would go on Friday, and it would be just him and me.  So, fast forward to today.

This morning, Nate had (for the first time ever) a school friend come over for a playdate.  So, after Caleb left, Nate and I headed to the library.  So mature, Nate walks up to the checkout desk and, when the librarian asked if she could help us, asked:

"I was wondering if I could get my very own library card?"

So I filled out the paperwork, and she promptly created a library card.  While we waited, two girls who were waiting to check out a huge pile of insect books showed Nate where to find them.  As soon as we got his card (and a bookmark, and a sticker), we headed to the non-fiction area.  We picked up a few books on bugs and frogs, then headed over to the graphic novels, and then the "early reader" books.  Nate sat down at a table and went through the books, too excited to wait until we got home.

So we checked out his books (as well as two novels for me), and headed off to the grocery store before heading home.  He read all the way to the grocery store, and all the way home in the car.  And I should have taken a picture.  It was precious.  But what was more special to me was the question he asked me on the way to the car as we walked out of the library.

"Mom, can we come to the library every week?"
"Sure, Nate."  But we can't come when you're at school, so we will have to go on Saturdays."
"Okay, Mom.  Can we go to the library every Saturday?"

Yes.  Yes we can.

His stash from today's trip?
  Finding Zemo (a superhero graphic novel)
  See Otto
  Anakin to the Rescue
  Tale of a Tadpole
  Frogs
  Stink Bugs

And tonight, he read me See Otto.  All by himself.

I am so proud of my little reader!  And I am definitely going to encourage this habit!  Off to the library we will go every Saturday!

And now, I'm going to curl up with one of my books and a cup of decaf coffee while Tom watches basketball.  Goodnight all!

Star Wars Book

Tom literally pulled in the driveway 2 minutes ago. He brought Nate a
new Star Wars book from Emma.

I think he likes it!

Must be a good one...

To draw Nate's attention away from playing at the park!

(Nate got a new Transformers book from Tom today.)

Prairie Lights Bookstore

I saw this poster on the wall at the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City. I was in town for an engineering advisory board meeting, and I was early so I was walking around downtown for a while. I had to stop there to sit for a while because I was so tired (I'm blaming the baby...)

If I could have bought this off the wall, I would have done so in a heartbeat. I love it that much.