is the author of a book Lisa gave me a while back, "Bluebonnet Bride". I've not read it, I'm not big on romance novels, but it's been on the book shelf since Lisa gave it to me. Last night, Mikyla asked me if she could get a book down to read. I told her no.. I said, Mikyla, those are books for grown ups, there are no pictures in them. Go get one of your story books out of the toy basket. She said, Mammy, I'm almost grown up now. I don't want a book with pictures, I want one like you read. So.. of course she ended up getting herself one of my books. Now, her being a kindergartener, I knew she'd not be able to read the book, but talk about surprised, I was sitting there pretending to be interested in the Sponge Bob Square Pants cartoon that Mallory was insisting I watch with her.. and Mikyla had sat down beside me, I assumed, pretending to be reading her book.
Suddenly she squealed with delight and pointed, excited and happy, "Mammy, look! Here's one of my read-a-day words!" She'd found the word 'that' in the book on one of the pages and recognized, and read it, and it thrilled her to do so. I was tickled too, I can't believe she can do that. It seems impossible! I told her to look, that I bet she'd find more words she knew, and she did.. then she closed the book and began to examine the cover.
"Mammy.. this is "J", "i", "l", "l", "i", "a", "n"..." too she spelled out the author's last name.. "H", "a", "r", "t".
Letter by letter, I had her sound out the 2 names. She did it too, and just beamed..
I think I need to put my books away. I think it wouldn't take much and this child would actually be reading them!
Posted by juel at December 20, 2005 08:09 AM