"My Durn"

One of the benefits of having older siblings is that you learn some great things just by living, like how to hit your sister and run, how to properly hold a baby doll (tightly around the neck) and how to operate the DVD player (always carry the DVD around the house for a while before loading it into the machine). Grant has been saying, "my durn" (my turn) lately. He wants to do what Alex is doing. Almost every time I'm doing a reading lesson with Alex Grant runs in and says, "my durn." Because of it he has learned the letter sounds for m, s and a. He can almost get them right every time he sees those letters. Most of my kids have had no interest in reading until at least the age of 4 but Grant seems to have a little more desire to be like the other kids. So when I was flossing Alex's teeth last night with his head in my lap (can you believe he had 8 cavities filled in the last few months just after the hygienist was telling us his teeth looked perfect--all cavities were hidden in between his very young teeth) Grant said, "my durn" and just like Alex--said, "ow, ow" every tooth I flossed. So great to have to put forth less effort with each child (except for the early learned pestering).

Grant always squints when told to smile.