Pre-Reader

Dear Sawyer,

Here are some cute things you have done recently:

-When I asked you what you wanted to do one morning, you replied, "Spend time wis you."

-We were playing in your room one morning when I fell asleep on your bed. When I woke up from my little cap nap, I discovered that you had outlined the lower half of my body with all of your toy cars.

-The playground in our neighborhood has a little "library"--a covered wooden box with free books you can borrow or trade for books of your own. It's a great idea and the selection of books is different every time we go to the playground. Sometimes, you actually prefer to read the books instead of running around the jungle gyms! The last time we were there, it was time for us to go home so I asked you to put the books back. Not only did you carefully put them back in so that they were all right-side-up but when you dropped one on the ground, you dusted it off before you put it back in the box. So responsible!

-You love when I make water balloons for you and want me to make as many as possible. But then you hoard them in your bucket! You never like to throw them and watch them break and splash everywhere. But other kids do so when we were at the playground the other day, little kids kept trying to run up and take your water balloons and you just sat in the middle of the sprinklers with your arms draped over the bucket, guarding your precious treasure. The only times you parted with any balloons was to give a few to your BFF Mila :-)

-Daddy was trying to hug me one night but you pushed him away and said, "No, she's mine, all mine." Your siblings were possessive of me when they were little, too, but your possessiveness has outlasted theirs . . . which I guess makes sense since you're the youngest. But it's cute. I feel so loved!

-Right before bedtime one night, I opened a new container of lotion and gave you the cute little green box it came in to play with (you and your sister love squirreling things away in bags and boxes!). It obviously meant a lot to you because at 5 in the morning, you woke up, came running into my room in the dark and cried, "Where is the green lotion box?!?"

-When you read your Elephant & Piggie books (which you love!), you often run your fingers across the speech bubbles and "read" the text that you have memorized by now. When I read to you, you often tell me to point at the words as I say them so you know what on the page says what. And when I was reading about a mountain in a book the other day, you pointed to the word mountain on the page and asked, "Is that the word mountain?" I am so impressed, little man! You are going to be reading on your own so soon!

Love,
Mom