Week 3, Block 7, Edith Term

Once again, my lack of oomph has affected what we’ve done—I didn’t even get as far as updating the TV cabinet. (Puggle has noticed this lack of updates, and has regularly asked me when the new stuff is going up!)

However, we’ve continued to sing, and Puggle has taken great delight in offering to read to me while I eat, or otherwise am unable to do anything. He has been doing a lot of taking care of his poor Mama, and he has done a lot off his own bat (offering to read, noticing that my glass is empty and refilling it, not only getting the washing out of the machine—his job, but dragging it closer to the door for me, so I don’t have to bend over). He’s also been doing more upon request (preparing dinner, even!)

I have been very interested in the way he has worked through the readers. Although we have the first ten, he is still reading number eight. And he has made his own progress. He will still occasionally start at the beginning, but he tends to start any session a couple before his ‘current’ book, and read while he has momentum. That may or may not mean he finishes a new book in the session. He’s not memorising them (well, he may have done the first one, now:-) ), but he’s definitely practising decoding them.