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February 18, 2008

The perils of having a kid who can read anything

Ethan really likes Judy Blume's book "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing". He read it some months ago, and then there was a play of it put on my the Portland Children's Theater, which he was totally awed by. And then we read it again, together. More recently he got the sequel at the library, and read that. One night I was putting Linna down while he read in bed, and I heard him just cracking up at something in the book - she really has a good way with funny stuff.

Jeff and Ethan had reserved the sequel ("Superfudge") at the library, their usual MO. While they were at it, they put down a few more Judy Blume books, on the theory that if he likes one, why not more? I'm sure you can see where this is going. They came home with "Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret."

I let Jeff know it might not be the most appropriate book for a 5-year-old. Given that it's all about an 11-ish-year-old girl getting her period and her first bra and all that. (It's been some time since I read it myself.) So Jeff started reading it, and naturally Ethan saw him and wanted to read it too. Jeff handed it over, explaining in brief what it was about, and instructing Ethan to ask him if there's anything he doesn't understand.

At last report, Ethan's only question was, "What does 'influence' mean?"

Posted by ktingey at 03:46 PM | Comments (0)

February 04, 2008

Loves his sis

Tonight Ethan decided that even though Jeff is gone (usually that means he sleeps in the big bed with me and Linna), he wanted to sleep in his bed - with Linna. So I put two pillows down and tucked them in with their respective dollies (Ethan calls his "Ethan" and Linna calls hers "Red Dolly"). Linna liked it there, but unfortunately she couldn't let him go to sleep - she wanted to turn the globe lights on and off, get up for water, all her usual tricks. It was a nice idea though. Not that I could have left her there, since just lately she's been waking up approximately every two hours. More teeth? Nightmares? I don't know.

Ethan's been on this funny kick - he wants to wake up one minute earlier each day, until he's waking up at midnight. He takes it quite seriously, though I've tried to explain to him that it might get increasingly difficult. We've been more or less going along with it, though once it gets earlier than 6, we might start objecting more strenuously. Anyway, Saturday he actually slept in, but Sunday he woke up at, lemme see, 6:46. He wanted me to get up with him, but I declined. Linna woke up too, and she did accept his invitation to get up. They played together for about 45 minutes while we slept.

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