Coming Clean

Last night, I was in the office messing around while Josh was getting ready for bed. I saw that Lisa had a book by Flannery O’Connor, so I picked it up and start reading. It was a collection of short stories.

A few minutes later, Josh comes in yammering about something, and I absently tell him to get continue getting ready for bed. So he leaves but returns 5 seconds later, but in those 5 seconds something in the book has caught my attention.

He snuggles up behind me, still talking, but I’m still reading through the paragraph … no time to bother with him yet. Then I realize he’s saying … something … something … familiar and yet nonsensical.

“What are you saying, Josh?”
“I’m trying to reeeeeeeaaaaaaad.”
“You’re what?”
“Trying to read!”
“What are you talking about? What are you reading?”
“A .. good .. maaaane .. is hared .. to fend”
“What? Point to what you’re reading.”
Josh points to the top of the page where the title of the short story is: “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”

Awesome!!! Josh is reading! So we work through the proper phonetics, he gets all spun up, and then off to show off to momma!

After that, instead of me reading to him for bedtime, I help him read to me. It’s pretty awesome.