A Few Things About Cole

Clay's mom used to read him this book when he was a kid. Several months ago, his mom was looking to pass it along to someone so we were fortunate enough to become the new owners of this book. I knew Clay enjoyed these stories long ago, but we both had no idea how they would take hold of Cole's imagination. He loves this book! He loves to read the stories over and over. He loves to teach the stories to anyone who will listen. He loves explaining how all the various titans and gods and heroes all interconnect; who's married to who, who their children are, and who turned into what, and what powers they have. When he's not reading these stories, he likes to just daydream about them. He's borderline obsessed with greek mythology.


So when we heard about the book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, we knew it would be the perfect read after learning all the greek myths. We loved reading this book with Cole and Cole loved it too! The movie was alright, pretty different from the book, but still fun. We highly recommend the first book, The Lightening Thief.
At the beginning of summer, Clay ordered some John Thompson beginning piano books for Cole so I could start teaching him. It's been so fun going through the little songs with him. At first he was a little indifferent about the whole idea but went along with it. That was back in June. Here we are just a couple months later and he's saying, "I'm addicted to the piano". It's nice that he has another activity that he can do by himself when Luke has my attention. (Oh and a little side note: that's not dirt in his fingernails. It's berry juice:)


And his latest news is that he just lost his very first tooth. Hooray for gaps!