Problem solved!

This morning as I was walking out the door, Reed asked me to open the bag and box of new box of cereal for him. He still has a hard time with fine motor skills things like opening a cereal bag or a non-kid-friendly shampoo container. I told him "You're going to have to get married young so you'll have someone to open your cereal boxes for you, you know." He said "No, I'll just eat oatmeal instead."

No worries, then! :)

A two-song playlist?!?

Reed can manipulate his iPod Touch (handed down from Tod) better than I can my own iPhone. He loves to reorganize the apps into categories. He also loves to play all kinds of games on it.

But music...he's gone through a few iterations of playlists. The longest-running list had all his most favorites on it, which was Trout Fishing in America and They Might Be Giants, plus soundtracks from the Phineas and Ferb show. Oh, and his most favoritest of all - Weird Al Yankovic (or Weird Al Yovac, as Reed calls him).

The current favorite playlist has just two songs. Two. Over and over and over again while he falls asleep each night. It's Weird Al's "The Saga Begins" (which is a Star Wars song set to "American Pie") and "Yoda". Over and over. It would make me totally crazy, but he loves it!

The reading vacation

We just returned a few days ago from our spring break trip to Florida. We spent a couple of wonderful days in Amelia Island, then stopped through St. Augustine to see the Fountain of Youth, then on to Daytona, with a one-day trip to Legoland. Great time!

Amy reading on the boat

But what strikes me about the trip is that, along the lines of my last post...Amy became a real, true, crazy-for-books kid on this trip. She spent hours reading. She read through almost all of our 2.5 hour boat tour around Amelia Island, only stopping to take quick looks at the wild horses or dolphins. She even became one of those kids who you see walking around and reading a book. It's been a quick progression, but she is all over it. The Puppy Place books are her obsession, she can't get enough of them. On her last trip to the library before vacation, she checked out about 8 of those books, along with five or six others. I think it's official...she loves books as much as her brother does.

Sometimes even Reed
wears out and
has to quit reading!

I also read a lot on this trip, including Reed's recommendation of "Trumpet of the Swan," which is his all-time favorite book. I read a few other grown-up books as well. Tod did a bunch of reading. Oddly enough, Reed probably did the least reading of all of us...though he did manage to fall asleep reading one night.