My Big Boy can read!
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Try to ignore MrSpud’s truly appalling hair here…oh and my dreadful photography…try to focus on the 8 month old Bertie, finally understanding that books are for reading and not eating. I think I could recite that book in my sleep, plus the accompanying ridiculous noises I made to accompany each page (“This cow can moo”…me: ‘moooooo mooooo’. This cow is blue”…me: ‘cry cry cry’). Fast forward a couple of years and he’s not eating books, he’s READING books! Whole books! Not eaten whole, read whole. What a long way we’ve come.
I feel overwhelmingly proud of him, even prouder than when he learnt to ride a bike without stablisers. I loved that moment, watching him scoot off in to the distance…because I remember how it felt to do it, how it felt like being handed your freedom on a plate (ha, how wrong). And I love the reading even more than his first totally unaided swim, because swimming is about safety around water and having fun confidently and not much more than that.
But reading is a gift forever, and a shared joy. It’s like letting him in to ‘the club’. It’s the beginning of losing yourself in a book, of being able to dive in to other worlds anytime you please, the start of building his own collection of ‘best favourites’, old favourites, new discoveries…that’s why I’m so thrilled about this new development; because I’m so excited for him.
He could hardly contain his joy, as we made our way through his first ‘whole book’…word by word, sentence by sentence. Every now and I again I asked if he’d had enough, ‘NO!’, he’d half laugh, half shout. He has this funny little chuckle thing that goes on when he’s pleased with how something that he’s doing is turning out, it melts my heart actually..kind of, ‘oh! I’m doing it I’m DOING it!!”.
Yes you are Mr Bertie, you ARE doing it and I love that you are. xx
This is one of those moments where as a mother you just want to throw yourself on the floor with happiness!
Yay Bertie!
It just gets better too – E and I went to the library and she choose Charlotte’s Web which was one of my first “best favorites!”
Sometimes, it’s just great to be the Mother!
Congratulations to you both!
cheers,
x.
Marion
Aw this is so sweet! So so so sweet! :)
aww. that’s just beautiful! it gave me goosebumps! welcome to “the club” bertie! and i know what you mean about that little chuckle, only with sabin it’s a little snort/chuckle. one of my favorite sounds in the world.
xox,
/j
Oh congrats…. the first time mine read a whole book I would run around the house screamin’… “we got a reader!!!”.
I love to hear Sydney read to Ashley too… now that’s a real tear jerker!!!
xxxxx
how precious. and what a clever boy he is! i was reading much later, at six and a half i think, since i started school a bit late. i’ve never stopped reading since though – one of the most magical journeys in life. and only just beginning for him!
We have also recently acquired a boy child who can read – it was amazing seeing him go from reading “Mum” and “Dad” to whole books. Amazing. He is now very vocal about how he has done pink books, red books, flew through yellow books and is onto blue books. Whatever that means. Beaming with pride, can’t wait for him to fall asleep reading like I used to do – and still do!
Well done Bertie, you are a clever bean!
The very best of all accomplishments, in my humble opinion.
And by the way, I apologize for my long absence from the blogging world. Every now and then I go on a reading jag!
This delights me. Absolutely thrills my mother’s heart. And, of course, my teacher’s heart is delighted, too. There really is no joy, no freedom like a book. I am thrilled for Bertie. Thrilled! Way to go, MegaBertie!!