I took Raegan to the library last Friday after I picked her up from school. She loves to go pick out new books, play on the touch screen computers, put puzzles together, and make new friends. She ran in Friday and fell in love with this book :
She picked it off the shelf herself and went and sat at a table and started "reading" it in her loudest voice, so all could hear. The librarians there are great and found this to be the cutest thing and then asked if they could video tape her reading sometime, because it was just too cute. I think Raegan liked the attention because she just kept going and going. I went on to find some books with read along cds and never had to worry about where she was because I could hear her reading from across the large room.
Anyways, Raegan finished "reading" this book and carried it with her from one activity to the next in the library. I tried multiple times to explain to her that I couldn't read that book and maybe we could get one in English instead. She insisted that she needed this book and when I would conveinently forget to pick it up after we set it down to play on the computer or do a puzzle, she'd always make sure to run back and get it.
Philip had a very long day Friday, setting up by himself to sell CFA sandwiches from 3 different locations throughout the OU stadium. With wind gusts over 50 mph one of his tent locations went down, meaning the metal posts actually broke due to the force of the wind and his menu signs were lost. Major setback the day before the first home game. Thankfully, our good friend/fellow operator Mike down the street had an extra one in storage that Philip was able to borrow (although that did include killing a black widow spider to get to it, but that's another story). Philip made it home for dinner before 8 and took on the challenge of reading Raegan's lovely book. Raegan handed it to him and said, "daddy, can you read this?" He took it like any other book and started reading it in Spanish, he sounded nearly fluent as if he spoke the language everyday, he actually seemed to be enjoying the story, at least more than Raegan and I did as we clearly had no idea what was going on besides what we could gain looking at the simplistic pictures. I'm sure his highschool spanish teachers would be as proud of him as I was and I'm thankful that he is such a wonderful daddy.
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