"owen can read this book!" and that one, and this one, and that one

my favorite part of being in mrs. running's third grade class was by far scholastic book day. and it wasn't just because i always got more books then would reasonably stay bound by the big newspaper rubberband, but because my love of books was always, always fed. there were two things in our house we never went without--fresh fruit and books. even when money was tight we still got apricots (the best were from our tree which mom then made into THE most amazing apricot pies) and blackberries in june. . . and every month when the scholastic book order came i got free run of the scholastic special-run paperbacks (we were also huge fans of the fremont public library--i always brought home as many hardy boys mysteries as i could carry and volunteered every august for those free a's baseball tickets). anyway, how excited was i when we started getting scholastic order forms in owen's preschool cubby?? yesterday when i picked him up from school the director grabbed me and said, oh, don't forget your books! we had to put yours in the box! now, i did order some for baby lily and at $2 a paperback set i couldn't resist! the best part though has been watching owen develop his own love and appreciation of books--he wanted to be sure and read 2 books (i, of course, love that he wanted both the "megatrux" set and the "i love mommy" set) before breakfast and after lunch wanted to read three more and now we'll read another before heading to trader joe's to buy blueberries...
note how owen inserted an"I" --he pointed out to me that "can read this book" isn't right. my little grammarian. hehe. oh, and i'll be posting our faves off to the left as i update our blog!