Ky, the reader

Each night we have a family routine. We start the bedtime routine around 7pm. This routing consists of: pajamas, brush teeth, family prayers (each kid prays), scriptures, then reading with each individual child. We start the reading process with Heather and Ryan, and then move down to Taylor and Ky.

Both Ky and Taylor are good readers, but after finishing reading with Ky I was struck by Ky's love of reading. After reading a couple of chapters of the book I am reading to Ky, I put the book on his window sill, on a stack of books that Ky is reading on his own. Normally Ky's stack of books is several books deep--books of 200-300 or more pages each. This stack of books are typically the books that he is presently reading, but will occassionally contain a just finished and a yet to be started book. Tonight I am not sure why it struck me since the stack is always there, but tonight it struck me how much Ky loves reading. On the nights when we get them to bed late and put them to bed without allowing them to read on their own, Ky will actually sulk.

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