Growing Up
The past few nights, Theo has taken a few toys to bed with him. Each night when he finally goes to sleep, we find the cars and plastic animals laying on their sides or their backs at the foot of his bed. Last night, he half-woke when Jeff tucked the blanket around him and noticed as Jeff absentmindedly turned one of the cars right side up.
“No, Daddy!” he said, suddenly awake. “They sleeping!”
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He was in his room the other day, playing quietly, “reading” his books. I heard a sudden sob and peeked into the room. He was sitting on the floor with a book in his hands, weeping. “What’s wrong, buddy?”
“I can’t read it!” he said, obviously frustrated.
“What do you mean?” He’d been happily thumbing through books, saying he was reading them, for weeks.
“I don’t know HOW!”
Well. Yes. That’s true.
Such a sweet (and cute) little guy you have.
Think that’s a signal that he’s ready to learn how?
feefifoto, it would be fun to think so, we’ll see what happens. I’m not holding my breath but I’ll let you know when he picks up the newspaper and starts reading headlines…