Tidbits

On the way home from the dinosaur museum yesterday, Bud fell fast asleep and Sis should have because she was way behind in the sleep department (I'll post in a minute on why that was). But she did everything possible to stay awake. At one point, she was pulling her own hair and kicking the back of the driver's seat, all while singing to herself. And when that failed, she switched to lasso-ing Shirt instead of pulling her hair. It worked, though. An hour in the car on the way home and she never closed her eyes. That's strength of will. Heaven help us.

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Bud is in love with letters. He "reads" them everywhere. Stop signs are his favorite: "S-T-O-P" he recites. He likes my college sweatshirts because there are big, bold letters. And he loves to spell his name. He's even written it a few times, albeit out of order; he starts at the beginning but somehow wraps to the front before he is done. Of course, at this age writing is not linear so it doesn't much matter. But he is now hyper-aware of words and the letters that make them. I'm not sure I'm so ready for him to be able to read, really. True, it opens up a whole new world. Maybe that's the challenge.