Oh, the joys of having a child that is learning to read and 2 that can’t read!! Most days it is wonderful because they will sit and listen to her read just about anything! There are those days though, that is seems she just wants to rub it in that they can’t read. We encountered on of those days a couple days ago and we got a great laugh at the response it created!! Here is the dialogue from the day….
We were walking to the spring just talking and enjoying the nice day. We passed a bed and mattress in a yard with a sign on it. So I hear, ‘FFF, fr e, FREE!! Mommy that sign says free!!’ ‘Yes it does kiddo, good job’, I say. Then my 3-year-old looks at it and says, ‘Yep it does say free!’ Like he really read it! Well, that just set my 6-year-old off…. “You don’t know how to read”, she says, “you’re not big enough!” Without missing a beat my 3-year-old looks at her and say, “YES, I CAN!!!! See 1-2-FREE!!!!!” Well, Mimi and I just lost it, I laughed so hard!! He says the crazy things all the time but he just does NOT like to be out done or told he can’t do something. This will be one thing that I store in the banks of my memory and precious memories! 
