Tonight I took some children to the library.  We used to go every Monday night, but fell out of the habit, so I’m hoping to start going weekly again.

Miguel wanted to go along with the older children and me, and even tough he’s not finished learning his letters yet, I took him anyway.  While we were there, we happened to find a book that he could read some of the words in.  It’s called “Indian Two Feet and His Horse”.  It’s a very cute little book about an Indian boy who desperately wants a horse but can’t seem to make that wish come true.  Miguel was able to read and sound out about half of the words, and I filled in the other half for him.  The more words he read, the more excited he got.  By the time he finished the book he was downright giddy, exclaiming in an excited voice that he couldn’t believe he was actually able to read a hard book!  He read through the story again to Michael, doing even better the second time through.

As Miguel was getting ready for bed he asked me if he could read the book tomorrow again to everyone.  I told him he could read it to people one at a time, and that seemed to please him.

Seeing his excitement makes that trip the library priceless.