A Boy's Book

After I dropped the kids off at school today I cleaned out the fridge, put the garbage out to the curb and picked up the house a bit. When I noticed this (bottom photo). I recently ordered from the school book order, a set of chapter books called the "Dragon Slayers Academy." I did this because Jared has noticed that a lot of the chapter books we own are "girlish". They talk about girls and girl things and well, frankly he just doesn't like it. He wanted adventure and boys as the main character. While we have some books like that, when I saw the "Dragon Slayers Academy" series I thought they sounded gross enough to be considered "boyish". Well, the book order came yesterday and he wasn't so sure about my selection. He wanted books about superheroes. I talked him into giving it a chance.

We started to read the first one yesterday while Caitlin was at her piano lesson. The story is actually quite good so far and he really started to like it. So, when I was picking up this morning and happened to glance over at this little console with his book on it and a stick poking out of it (his idea of a bookmark), it made me smile. If you truly know Jared, you know that he loves to pick up sticks and rocks whenever given the opportunity, it's a boy thing. If this book hasn't always been "boyish" it certainly is now. It's got the stick to prove it!