If you've been paying attention, you know that Quinn and I have been working on this "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" book since earlier in the year. We blazed right through lessons 1 through 87 and then hit a snag.
We had other things to do. We lost our momentum.
At 50 lessons Quinn got a little surprise. He knew that when we finished the whole book he would get the Big Surprises. Apparently not motivation enough. For either of us.
Last week I finally got up the gumption to push the issue. We needed to finish the final 4 chapters within two weeks. No lolly gaggin' or any othe such thing.
Monday night Quinn read his last story in the book. We called Dad into the room, did a little happy dance and set about opening the Surprises.
The movie Wall-e - if you haven't seen it, you better. It's quite a sweet movie. Can ya tell Quinn was happy about it? (The one from the library doesn't work very well).
A cat that is solar powered for his part of the garden rounded out the stickers, movie, and butterfly garden. He's very proud of his reading like a third grader self.
Couldn't be prouder of him ourselves.
Rumor has it that he reads to the other kids in class when the teacher is busy. That's my boy!
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