Last year, right around this time, Memaw and Grandpa took the boys to the library to check out some books. About a month ago, they did the same. The boys came home with the following: “Smiley Shark”, “Big Fish Little Fish”, “Hooray for Fish” (are we seeing a pattern here?) and a Star Wars book. One night, as we were reading “Hooray for Fish” for the umpteenth time in his room, Aiden started “reading” along. I had him try the whole book from the beginning. I was impressed that he knew all the words (had memorized the words that is..not that he can actually read them). Last year, I video taped him “reading” the book “Skippy John Jones: Color Crazy”aaaaaaaaaaaa so I decided to tape this one too. The books were due back on Tuesday so I made this video quickly before we had to take them back.

I wanted to include a link to the Skippy John Jones post, but back then I didn’t know how to do embedded videos so there is only a link to youtube there anyway. Instead, I’m going to post both videos now. First: Aiden in 2008 “reading” Skippy (2 years and 3 months old) and then this year reading Hooray for Fish (which is quite hard to hear I might add…he was speaking quickly and slurring the words a bit). Logan helps finish the book and notice how Brady comes in and yells at me for pointing the camera to him. He’s got the paparazzi move down pat! Oh and I now remember why I taped the Skippy book…I thought it was so cute that 1. Aiden thought his name was “Skippy John Jones Color Crazy” and 2. He repeats to Skippy what he had, at that point, been told MANY MANY times “you only color on paper!”