Sunday, September 18, 2011

Way to go John!

John had a couple breakthroughs this week.

Breakthrough #1 – completed Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons.  He can read!  Seriously even a month ago if you asked him to read something other than his reading lesson he would tear up and say he couldn’t (but yet he could read a whole page of a story in the reading lesson).  Makes complete sense, right?  Not!  Anyhow, now that he officially finished the reading lesson book, he says he can read and will even pick up a book himself and read it!  Yay, progress!  Below are a few photos of his last reading lesson (from that book anyways).

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Breakthrough #2 – he can really ride his bike!  So, remember he got a real bike (two wheeler no training wheels for his birthday) to ride instead of the balance bike?  Well, he could ride it but needed help getting started (the bike was a little too tall perhaps).  Anyhow, asking him to ride that new bike caused tears every time!  Well, yesterday we had some lovely cool (cold, really) weather and went outside, Luke got out the horrid bike and said lets ride this, John teared up, and I said just ride it for a while I’ll give you a dollar.  So, Luke helped him get it started a few times and then John just went off and did it on his own!  Yay!  He even told me today that Paul now has two bikes, the tricycle and the balance bike!  He loves the two wheeler bike now!  If only we could get Ruthanne riding a bike…

The only other good photo of the week:

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6 comments:

kathy said...

Yeah for John! He can do lots of things now that he's 5!

kelsey said...

Yay for John! He's looking so old and grown up. Kinda crazy!

Nicole said...

Good job, John! Those are both amazing accomplishments.

Cynthia said...

Oh man. John and I sound like twins. I'm always tearing up over something! Sweet boy. Miss you guys.

gigi said...

Congrats to John!

Stephany said...

I have been hearing a lot about that program, wondering if it will work for Reagan. She is so easily distracted and doesn't focus well. She seems to know the letter sounds pretty well, but she is having trouble putting them together......