Emmett didn't read until he was in first grade when he was 6, and it was over the course of that school year.

And he was not in the least unusual in that regard. Most of the kids entering first grade did not read.

So. Don't worry! Emeline will be fine.

There is a bird on your head!?!

No. Now there are TWO birds on your head!

elephant and piggie are great!

sj, I take cranberry concentrate tablets every day and I've not had a UTI in years(Which is like, really good as I found out I now have a sulfa allergy and doctors tend to prefer it, them? for the bladder infections.) The ones I take come with extra vitamin C, too, as far as I know, it couldn't hurt.My mom the hippie says they make things more acidic and the germs don't like it in there then.) One thing, besides blue eyes, I have in common with Adrian Grenier...apparently his mother calls from Brooklyn to see if he's taken his supplements today. My mom would totally do this. She wants to know if Ms.Grenier has ever tried to grow a fruit pit in a juice glass.

No. Now there are TWO birds on your head!

and they are in love

I DO NOT WANT THREE EGGS ON MY HEAD!!

Which reminds me, I need to order books!

Btw, erika, Emmett likes to watch Celebrity Deathmatch and a recent one was Piven v. Adrian Grenier.

Aims, DC has put out some awesome kid level comics with Batman!

I hate the ads that are on around here, for "Your Baby Can Read!", where these morons blither on about how their darling 18-month-old is reading at the 2nd grade level. As Hubby says, "Great, so long as you don't mind that the kid will never walk quite right or will have a speech impediment because you fucked up his proper brain development."

But Little Johnny can read before Little Janey next door, and you can brag about it at church on Sunday, and we all know what's really important, don't we.

Oopsy, spilled some chlorine in the shallow end of the gene pool.