A little light reading

"Books are a completely portable magic."

Stephen King

This weekend we had a camp-in in the front room as per Rebecca's request. The kids brought in Ammon's fish light to read by. What was suppose to be a few minutes of reading turned into an hour of reading, with kids asking for more time.

Ammon checked out the 1st 2 books in the Black Beat Club and devoured them for the 2nd time. He's really into those books. He just sent in a requested to the public library asking them to buy the last book in the set. Last week he discovered a pile of books in the storage room. He was in HEAVEN! He brought up an armful of the books to read. Ammon caught onto reading the earliest so far and it's been so fun to see that skill blossom in him and to hear about all the fun things he reads. 

One of my favorite things he says, after I love you, is 

"I read it in a book!"

Corrine was reading the graphic novel The City of Ember tonight. She said this was so much easier to follow then the book. Corrine is starting to really like to read. She especially likes to read in her bed at night. Many times we've gone into her room to find her asleep with a book next to her and her light on.

Simeon didn't move the entire time we were reading except to turn the page. He couldn't tear his eyes off his newest book by RA Salvatore. His old friend Shadow was trying to read with him. Shadow joined our family over 6 years ago for Simeon's 6th birthday. Simeon was in the midst of very hard chemo then and Shadow went to every appointment for chemo and hospital stay. When Simeon broke his arm, so did Shadow and they had matching casts. After so much love and baths, he is getting so thin in areas, like his nose. He desperately needs another bath, but we're afraid he won't come out in one piece.

Rebecca read for a while then doctored her babies until it was time to crawl into the tent to sleep. She likes to read books to us and tell us what is going on. She loves when Corrine reads to her at bedtime.

I'll never tire of seeing this on the back of Simeon's shirt. 

I love to see the kids loving reading. Our house is full of books and we are constantly checking more out. Thankfully the library emails me when they are due, or I'm sure our fine would be horrendous! 

We have the quote from Stephen King on our white board in the dinning room. 

We see it everyday and I and love it and agree with it.

Books are magical.