Highlight of my week...Calvin and I read his book "Puff the Magic Dragon" that was given to him by our sweet friend Katharine for his birthday. It's now one of his FAVORITES. In one of the illustrations, there are pirates in a boat. When we got to the pirate scene, I taught Calvin the sign for Pirate (one hand covering one eye) we then added a "hook" to it to personalize our sign, and he thought it was hysterical! The other day Calvin was in time out for being a normal two year old (hitting when he was frustrated) and when all was quiet I sneaked in the room and caught him reading the book... and signing it to himself! "Boat" "Dragon" "Stars" "Boy" and 'PIRATE". It melted my heart to see this! I called Rob to come peek at him too and luckily he was able to snap a picture of it.
Tonight when I read it to him again, he INSISTED that I get my hook out for the Pirate part... and he GROWLED like a pirate! He makes a lot of grunting and crazy sounds, but this was on purpose.. and adorable. We pretended to be Pirates for a little and then he finally went to bed (kicking and screaming of course) but yay for early literacy! And and early Piracy!
