The Joy of Reading

We have all been doing a lot of THIS this summer...

Which makes me very, very happy.


Justin has been learning to read for the past few weeks. He is doing a great job and I am so proud of my little guy. Of course it helps that he has such a wonderful big sister to teach him. :)

(My favorite books for teaching reading at home have been the Bob Books series. They are what I used to teach Emily how to read and how Justin is learning now. They are great.)

One of Emily and Justin's very favorite pretending games to play is Library. Last week we had Emily's friend Brenna over to play and they set up an awesome little library and had so much fun playing in it, and I had so much fun watching them...and taking pictures. :)

The library was organized so nicely with a fiction section,

a non-fiction section, and of course DVD's.

Here is Emily as the very helpful librarian...

Justin just browsing in the fiction section...Emily is more than happy to give him a suggestion. :)

The end.

(I am never sure about how to end my posts...it seems like the words "the end" always seems to wrap things up nicely. So I just keep on using them. :) )

Eden

Today is Eden's first ever birthday. Our baby girl is one.

I just wanted to take a minute to say that we really love this baby...

Every single bit of her...

More than words can express.

Happy Birthday sweetie!!!