Oh, guilt. You great motivator, you. So I do this thing where I tweet-confess to needing to blog so that someone (inevitably) will encourage me to do so. (Yes, Janelle, you are the muse today! And the swift decline in my kitchen’s pickle population is also your doing.)
{Crickets}
“What’s the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to do something with you?” – “Show us pictures?” – “Anything for my little readers!”
So, basically, my newly-seven-year-old is an MG reading fiend. He’s currently reading the third book the How To Train Your Dragon series and the fact that he finished his first “real” book on his seventh birthday was sort of awesome. As is the fact that he reads on the subway. #NerdLove
“What else, Bethany?”
“[sigh] Oh, things.”
“Riveting.”
“Bite me.”
{Cuddles and kisses!}
ADDENDUM: Okay, I feel like I owe you an explanation. (Mind you, I felt this conviction seconds after initially publishing this post and not before.) I came home with EVERY intention of justifying your love…and then had to fill out the dreaded first day back to school forms that came with getting my little one from the iron claws of that school. And yeah, my brain juices, they are zapped. I’M SO SORRY!
August 29, 2011 at 3:13 pm
He is so cute!! And a reader?? I am a satisfied, pickle-eating blog reader!
)
Kudos!! (and I laughed at your pickle population joke, btw… And I’m filling out those dreaded forms right now…)
August 29, 2011 at 3:15 pm
My husband will be shaking his head at me even more than usual now that I’ve taken to giggling when I see the pickle jar.
August 29, 2011 at 3:25 pm
you’re a goof. but your son is clearly awesome.
August 29, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I know that when you say goof, you really mean your personal hero. So thank you! ::deep curtsy::
August 30, 2011 at 2:44 am
you know it!
August 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm
While he is all about How to Train Your Dragon on a frequent basis, he still isn’t above smashing his plastic animals together in an all out battle royal for supreme dominance. Which is what he is doing right now, with muffled whispers directing the dialogue and epic sound effects. Right now I think it is Dragon vs Elephant vs Monkey vs Hulk. The Tiger is dead…The Tiger is dead.
August 30, 2011 at 2:12 pm
You can vouch for the fact that I literally LOL’d just now.
February 9, 2012 at 12:53 pm
[...] Ezra and his How To Train Your Dragon Series. So you know how his grandma gave him the first book when he was six because he we are rightfully obsessed with the masterpiece that is the movie? And you know how he looks smacktacular when he’s reading? Okay, but anyway so he’s now on the sixth book in the series and he has never loved one of the books this much. Which is saying a lot. He has been so excited about this book that he is tearing through it and instead of restricting himself to a chapter a day (which he used to do unless the chapter was really short), he’s been reading three. So he’s sitting next to me and every couple minutes he asked if he could go. When I realized he’d been asking to go on to the next chapter (he makes rules and then tricks himself into thinking I made them…), I was like. I have to write this woman. So I did. [...]