Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A Xander Milestone

Xander got his first allowance on Monday night, fifty cents. He put part of it in his piggy bank and part in his sharing jar. He wanted to put the bigger coins in his piggy bank. Since his allowance came in nickels and dimes, his sharing jar actually got the larger amount of money.

He does not quite understand the whole process yet, but he has bought two items for himself with his own money: a used dragon book and an awesome pirate ship we found at Goodwill for a dollar.

After happily reading/listening to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Xander and I have started a few more chapter books. We finished Sir Pants and Sir Reddy and the dragon chapter book. We got halfway through The Mouse and the Motorcycle but Xander lost interest in that. I started the Boxcar Children's The Pizza Mystery but he doesn't want to go back to it after reading only one chapter.

We went to the Chronicles of Narnia exhibition at the Museum of Science and History last weekend, which Xander loved, and which prompted him to want to watch Prince Caspian again. Last night we read the first chapter of Prince Caspian and he is really excited about it.

I'm not sure if it's because I love those books too that he is so good at listening to them, or because he knows the movies from them, or because they're well written, or because they include talking animals... I think we're going to have to stick to the somewhat supernatural themes for now. Talking animals, dragons, knights and battles, witches and bad guys. I'll have to see if Stuart Little fits the bill or if the farm setting is too nonviolent for him. I'm not saying farms are nonviolent (from the animals' points of view) but nobody goes around wearing swords, charging their enemies, or shouting, "For Narnia!"

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