Our Wednesday

Today I took Trey (and Kayelynn) to reading time at our local community center. The activity was better than I had expected and Trey participated better than I thought he would. Even Kayelynn seemed to enjoy herself. Things started out a little rough. (Trey hiding in a corner whining he wanted to go home) But after singing a few songs and listening to a story or two, Trey slowly, inch by inch, made his way onto the reading rug. By the time the hour was up he was sprawled out like he owned the place. He got to pick out 3 pieces of candy and 3 library books. He thought that was great. I think we've found our Wednesday activity for the summer!

To ensure that reading time would go more smoothly I had bribed Trey with a trip to McDonald's for lunch. (not just any McDonalds-the one with the "slide") We asked a friend from reading group to come along. This little boy was only 2, so i guess Trey felt responsible to look out for him. At one point the little boy thought he'd try to climb up the big slide from the bottom. This is a trick that Trey had already tried at previous visits. So, he knew it was a bad idea and warned the little boy that he might get "smashed". A few minutes later the boys were taking a french fry break. Trey was still giving his lecture on climbing up slides the wrong way. It went something like this: "You can't do that or you'll get smashed and squished. AND if you get smashed and squished YOU'LL DIE!" The little boy seemed taken aback. Thank goodness his mommy had gone to fetch ketchup. I smoothed things over and in a few minutes they were playing on the slide again. No one seemed traumatized for life or anything. (FYI: Trey's information on the consequences of smashing and squishing come from his recent adventures of playing with worms, hoppy toads and turtles. I think we are clear now that it does not apply to little boys and slides.)

After returning home Trey insisted that we read all 3 of his library books. I tried to convince him to read just one today, one tomorrow, and so on. But, I think I'll be reading about Rutherford Raccoon, Owl's ABC's, and Yoshio and the Rooster everyday until Reading Time comes around next week. Oh well, I am glad he likes to read. He is like his Mommy in this way.

Now we have stopped at Grandma's. She is on vacation so we are on doggie duty. Trey had a talk with Weegie the dog when we got here, telling him that Grandma would be gone on "cation" for a while. But she will be back, "Don't worry Weegie. We'll see her soon". His speech somewhat resembled the one I had given him last night after we told Grandma goodbye. We have fed the dog but he turned his nose up at that. All we gave him was canned food. (He prefers human food.) Then we let him out but he paced around on the sidewalk not wanting to go in the grass to do his business. (He doesn't like to get his feet wet.) Trey has already been into Grandma's cookie stash and had a popsicle. Now he is begging for another popsicle. I'm not sure who is going to miss Grandma more; the dog or Trey!