Friday, April 11, 2008

Hurray for Colin!


Colin and I have been working in a book called Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Colin does a great job and is proving to be as bright as I knew he was, but he isn't always enthusiastic to begin each lesson. They only take about 15 minutes each, and once he starts he seems to enjoy himself, but he never wants to start. I told him that each time he hits lesson 25, 50, and 75, he gets to go on a date with me - wherever he wants. At 100 he gets to have a water balloon party. Well, he got to lesson 25 (thanks in part to the Wii we got, which he isn't allowed to play if he hasn't done a lesson that day ) and decided that he wanted to go to Red Robin, which was convenient, because he still hadn't used his free meal from his birthday. We had to take Gabe along because Chad had to go out of town (more on that later), but Colin said that was okay. We had a really fun time and Colin actually ordered something other than mac' and cheese for once!

Chad is on his way to Spokane to see his Grandpa Jack, who is quite ill. We miss you already Chad!