Books and Girls

I am very excited to have a child that seems like he is going to like reading. From the time he was a baby (like after all the surgeries were done) he has been content to listen to (me) read him stories or look at books by himself. Yesterday we borrowed new (to us) Pigeon books from the library and he saw the Pigeon on the cover and ran all the way to the couch just to listen to me read it to him. I love that. I am sorry to sound judgemental but I think it is ridiculous about all the stuff kids have to entertain themselves nowadays. I mean I like the DS and game consoles as well as the next person but I think it's crap when a child can't entertain themselves without having one of these things in their hand. When I was that age I took a book everywhere to keep me entertained because I knew there was the chance that I wouldn't be able to watch TV or there wouldn't a kid there. So to see children now who depend on these things just annoy me. Even worse is it when they moan and groan about reading and it is like pulling teeth to get them to do it and now it is part of homework to read. I am very grateful to have a child who seems to enjoy it because I think reading is a gift and people take it for granted sometimes. There are adults who can't read because they weren't given the opportunity and you have children who can but don't because to them it's "boring" and God forbid they have to use their imagination and actually think about something instead of having it laid out for them in video game format.

Whatever. I am not saying that Trio won't have these things but he'll also have books and I will encourage that before video games.


This weekend a friend's niece came into town and it was amusing to see them interact. The girl, Chloe, doesn't really get to play with other children from what I understand so this was a fun time for her whereas Trio does but he's not always very sociable. This cute little girl because she was had no sense of personal space which doesn't bother me at all because there are some days you would think Trio was apart of my hip he's that close on me. But she would get right in Trio's face and say "Hi!" and Trio would look at her wide eyed and gently push her back or move away from her. At one point she was chasing him around the house going "Hi, Hi Hi" and I burst out laughing because my kid's a cute little boy and so girls chasing him is probably not gonna stop anytime soon it'll only get worse. And it was cute to see them play once Trio got food in his belly and decided he did want to play. I mean he is a pretty sociable baby for the most part he just has to warm up.

So in short Trio had a good weekend. We played with a new friend, went to the Book Box's Grand Opening and got to bounce around in the moonwalk and got to visit with some family and friends on Sunday for an impromptu BBQ (we have a Foreman grill so we did it inside). I love doing things with my son and I'm glad he had a full weekend now hopefully he'll start to feel better and sleep better.