hubby reads chapter books

First of all let me thank the few of you who still care enough to check this blog once a quarter, and since I've recently been made aware that you are still there, and since I still have so many wonderful things to blog about, we're back. Thanks for the patience. And now...




This is Junie B. Jones. Some of you probably already know her. She kills us! I should warn you that she does say "stupid dumb" sometimes so we had to talk about how WE don't say that and now we can laugh and shake our heads at her indiscretion. I thought I did a GREAT job reading her voice and bringing her stories to life. Until I heard my hubby read her to Mimi. Dwarfed me. I laughed out loud at least 11 times because of his inflections, and that was just in one chapter. One of his best words read aloud from Junie B. was "Ta-da." It had ringing vibrato.

He's good at reading aloud, though he'd probably refute it. We've read quite a few things aloud together. He almost always is the voice because if I read aloud, he falls asleep. And if he reads aloud I fall asleep... less. So it's our best option really. I don't know how I ever enjoyed reading alone.

That's a bit of an exaggeration. I still can enjoy reading alone but it is SO fun to read together. This just turned into a nerd post I realize.

We recently finished reading

I could punch that series in the nose at times. However, it is SO fascinating and definitley comes up in conversation. In fact TODAY I compared the forced intermingling of Repubs and Demos at tonight's State of the Union to something Capitolesque. So it's infiltrated my thinking for good...although hubby and I agreed that the writer may have eaten something upsetting before sitting down to write.

Anyway, I think FerManDo started out extremely cool and popular before he hitched himself to me. Now he's geekifying bit by beautiful bit. I can't really take credit for that but I will definitely take it!