i have been meaning to catch some video of mimi reading. she's getting to a point where she can read a whole book by herself. she loves to spend all night in bed reading book after book after book. some nights rob and i have to yell at her several times to go to bed and get some sleep! but as a result her reading is really improving. she still gets stuck on hard words and often uses semantics and meaning cues to figure it out, but doesnt understand cross checking for visual cues yet so her reading isnt 100% accurate as of yet. but she is easily reading about 90 percent of the words on her own correctly. here's mimi reading a book called Mouse Paint, which is at an early second grade reading level.
this year was a particularly difficult year to plan mimi's birthday. after rob's dad became terminally ill, i didnt think it was good time for a party for mimi and her friends, so we decided it was best to skip a party this year and just have a quiet family dinner out. then after dad passed and we slowly started to get back into our routines again, we all began to feel bad about not having a party for mimi, so we decided to have a party after all...although, a much belated party. mimi said she really wanted to have a party here at the house. she really really really wanted it here, so i told her she could, if she kept it small. since she was turning seven, i allowed her to invite seven friends. then i tasked her with thinking up a theme, and she finally settled on a favorite book series of hers called Rainbow Magic . how perfect...each of the book sets in the series showcases 7 fairies, whether they be the rainbow fairies, the gem fairies, the party fai...
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