Reading books.

Ryan and I both love to read, so we are thrilled that all of our kids love to read too. Before Nate was even born his auntie Ginger bought him a basket full of books. He loved books from a very young age. When he was a year old if he was really quiet for a long time, I knew that he was looking at his books. He'd sit by his basket and pull them out one at a time and look through them. He would spend a half hour doing this. Ryan and I were quite surprised that at 4 years old, he started to memorize the sight of words and pretty soon was reading children's books on his own just from word recognition. When he received his first letter from Kindergarten just before he started he could read pretty much the whole letter by himself. Ryan and I were so impressed. I wish we could take credit for this, but he pretty much did it on his own. Now he is already reading young children's novels! It is still so shocking to me that he taught himself to read. Although I don't expect for this to occur with Ty and McKenna, I love how Nate is such a good example to them, and they too love to read. I will find them all sitting like this a lot:



Now if you look really closely, you will see a little toy in each of their hand. Nate started doing this a long time ago. Whenever he read he would have a little toy in his hand that he would follow the words with. Now Ty and McKenna do the same thing.





I think it is so cute and funny! I'm so glad that they love to read! I hope it lasts forever.