Well, Kate had an awards day for Kindergarten. Imagine a room filled with 100 kids under the age of 9 all squirming and squiggling and craning their necks to see if mom and dad had arrived yet. We are lucky that Kate goes to a school where there is heavy parental involvement. Even then, there were kids who received their awards all alone.
It's funny, but having a job has made me just a little more compassionate towards these families. There have been so many things that I've had to miss since starting to work. I'm used to being able to say, sure, I'll do that or yes, I'll be there.
Kate got the Super Reader Award. Now, I know she's been doing very well at reading, but I didn't realize how well, until my mom came to visit. Everyone kept telling me that Emma was learning how to read or Jared was learning how to read, so I assumed they meant just like Kate. I mean, she reads books. Real books. Not things like, "pat. hat. pat sat on hat." That's way below her. She's reading nursery rhymes, the Narnia books things like that. Anyway, when my mom came, she promptly informed me that Kate was reading really well for her age. So, I'm kind of glad to hear that because Tanner and I spend a lot of time reading with her, and it is good to know that perhaps our efforts helped her just a little.
I think my Grandma Durrant would have been very pleased to know that all of the books she sent us for Christmas and birthdays are scattered over the house because Kate reads them to Reagan or Georgianna. Okay, maybe she wouldn't be happy about the scatter part, but the whole reading thing, that would've tickled her pink.
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