Evan Can Read!!!

Watching Colin play Wii

My Mom, being a teacher, knows the importance of not putting a child into school too early.  So, with all of my sisters who had fall birthdays she waited a year before starting them in Kindergarden.  However, when I came around, despite having a September birthday, she decided to go ahead and send me to school because I was already reading (actually she regrets not holding me back too, but that's another story).  Yep, even then some may have called me an over achiever.  Really, I just benefited from having 2 older sisters who played "school" with me often and thus taught me to read.

Well, despite Evan being a mini Dennis in looks, Evan might just be his Mommy's boy after all....at age 4 he has been very eager to read.  Often after Colin has done his nightly reading Evan will say "my turn".  We have brushed this aside thinking he was too young, but we have done the occasional sight word book with him.  Well, I finally decided why not see what he can do.  So, I pulled out some first reader "Bob" books that I had bought for Colin when he was in Kindergarden.  And, I am proud to say that Evan read his first 3 books today!!!  They are easy first sound books like "Sam sat on a mat", but he did it all by himself, and he was so proud!  If he keeps up this pace he is going to sail through Kindergarden in the fall!

A first for Logan....he finally sat for longer than 30 seconds to watch a show.  He has been the least interested in TV of all my boys and he finally sat for maybe 10 minutes with Evan to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.  Now, I don't love the kids watching a ton of TV so I really don't care if he likes it or not, but it would be nice for him to sit for 30 minutes so I can get dinner together without him following me around and crying because he is hungry.  Yes, he is a feisty one.  

In other exciting news...Dennis and I had our first meeting with a contractor today to get started on finishing the basement.  We meet with another one on Friday, so we are still in the beginning planning stages, but we are very excited to start this process and eventually have a finished basement to entertain in.

Lastly, I signed the boys up for their spring sports today.  Unfortunatetly, spring soccer and baseball have the same season here, so they had to choose one or the other.  Colin chose to stick with soccer, so he will do spring and fall soccer.  Evan chose T-ball so he could do T-ball in the spring and soccer in the fall.   Colin has only 1 indoor soccer game left and then we actually have no sports until early April.  Actually, that is not true.  Dennis will be starting Dodgeball next week!!!  That should be very entertaining!