March 14, 2006 - Tuesday
A week ago Monday Harry passed something of a milestone by reading a paragraph by himself and he's continued to do that over the last week, mostly reading the same Best Book of Dinosaurs with the two of us, or Harry and his mother, taking turns reading different pages. Tonight, however, may have been an even greater milestone, at least it kind of feels that way. Tonight he actually told his mother and me to leave his alone at story time. He was going to read to himself and he was very proud.

Of course, this is not the first time we've left without reading to him. There have been late nights to bed when there wasn't time and nights when we felt he didn't deserve stories for one behavioral reason or another, but those times have been relatively rare. More to the point, they've always been our decision and never particularly well received. Tonight, he literally told us to leave. He's wanted to read all by himself. Charmingly, from the hall we could hear him doing it.


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