Special K asked me the other night "How come you haven't taught [Little T] to read?"  I replied "Because he hasn't asked me."  The next evening Little T asked in his nicest voice "Mama, please will you teach me to read?"   My son only calls me Mama the name he first called me when he especially wants something.

As is typical for my boy, he started ambitiously with Green Eggs and Ham.  I said "That's a bit too hard."  He insisted.  He could read the first page or had memorized it.  

I looked around for the Bob Books.  "They're lost." Special K said.  C denied all knowledge of them then suddenly found them.  Little T read the first book Mat and started on the second book Sam.  He asked me what happened in the pictures.  He appears to already identify Mat and Sam.  I don't remember Special K doing that.  He could already read most of the first book.  He's mostly a sight reader like his sister, but he appears to have a better grasp of phonics than she does.  Oddly though he starts reading on the right page first instead of the left page.

Then it was time for dinner.