Reading is fun!

Both Hannah and Naomi really like to be read to. Although Hannah likes to listen to most things that I'm reading, even if they're slightly younger than her level, Naomi does not appreciate listening to Hannah's chapter books. She has hit upon a strategy that she thinks will be helpful to deal with times when I'm reading a chapter to Hannah and Naomi gets bored: she stands in front of us, grabs the spine of the book to try to push it closed, and says, "THE END!" over and over.

When she began using this method today, at first I couldn't tell what she was doing, because I thought she was trying to take the book and I wasn't paying as much attention to what she was saying. But once I figured it out, I realized that she thought that, by hastening the closing of the book and saying of "The End," she was actually getting us to finish reading sooner. Of course, we didn't comply. I did read Naomi some of "her" books afterwards, though!