Summertime

Girlfriends have just loved opening the door into the Laura Ingalls era. Maddie just finished "On the Banks of Plum Creek today," and slept with the next book ("By the Shores of Silver Lake") beside her so that she could start it first thing tomorrow morning;) Needless to say, this has set off a phase of the three of them pretending to be prairie girls like Mary, Laura, and Carrie. It obviously works out perfectly that we here have 3 girls to play these roles. Maddie reads through these books in 2-3 days, and actually finished "The Little House on the Prairie" in a day. She loves them so much, and once something grabs her interest, she won't put it down. She went through almost every single book written by Roald Dahl these past couple of months, and read through some of his thicker books in a day's time. We were reading so many of his books last month, that I even set out to read his biography called "Boy" which was very interesting. Faith, Maddie, and I have what we call "book club" too and have been reading the 1st installment of the Laura Ingalls books "Little House in the Big Woods" together. I found picture books that go along with many of the chapters in this book and in "Farmer Boy," so Abrie enjoys reading these as well. Faith is very into the American Girl, Josefina, right now too. Aside from the fun of reading together, we've also had fun learning states this summer. The three of them are very interested in this, and have had fun putting stickers on the map once they learn a new state.