Friday, November 14, 2008

Her first self-reading experience?

In true, typical male fashion, while Jillian was away on her business trip I decided to allow Megan certain privileges that may/may not have been allowed while mom was at home. We went and got ice cream, she played video games, I let her drive the car ... ok, ok, she didn't do any of that stuff. But she will, eventually, when Jillian is away. Bwhahaha.
This time, I did allow her one treat. She got to read her first issue of Sports Illustrated. I thought it was only right. As you can obviously see, she devoured the latest copy. 

She thought regular reading was too easy, so she turned it upside down to provide a challenge. I don't want to brag but she's in the 90th percentile in upside-down reading for kids her age.

In fact, she even brought a couple pages up to her face for a closer look. But shhh, don't tell Jillian. If she finds out she'll get mad and replace SI with Jane Eyre or some other such drivel. It'll be our little secret. 

2 comments:

Gram said...

When I read the title, I expected to see a picture of her reading your old teddy bear book of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. But then leave it to Megan to bypass a child's story and be just like Daddy in selecting a sports article when given the choice.

I look forward to seeing her read The Wall Street Journal when Jillian presents her with choices :-)

Happy house hunting this weekend!

Sarah and Jake said...

BP,

A similar thing happened to Steamboat and me the other night. I imagined storytime as this beautiful moment of Baby hanging on every one of Daddy's storytelling words. Ain't exactly like that, is it?!

Jake