Readers - Two of Them!

 The kids have been the MOST amazing readers over this summer vacation.  We had 7 weeks total.  Four weeks we spent in Seattle and then we have had two weeks back here in Berlin with ONE more week left before summer starts.  Each of them were allowed to check out 10 books for the summer break.  This is the coolest idea and I don't really know many schools that would do that.  Normally we just would head to the Seattle Public Library over the summer which is great but there was something about having a bunch of books on hand at your disposal that really prompted them to read and read and read. 
With 6 weeks of vacation under our belt Josie has read (some of them were a reread) all 10 of her checked out books.  She is now

reading a book she downloaded onto her Kindle from the Seattle Library and thinks she will probably finish it before school starts.
Benjamin has read 5 Percy Jackson  novels along with a bunch of other Greek Mythology books.  I actually limited his Percy Jackson books to 5 when we left school because I figured that there was NO way he would be able to finish 5 whole books in 7 weeks.  Well, he has proven me wrong.  He is really the kind of kid that really REALLY gets into something and then it is hard to pull him away.  He can read around any kind of

noise or on the bus or the train or really anyway.  It is quite remarkable.
So SO thankful for my readers.
I have mentioned that last year I read a measly two books which was such a disappointment.  I loved to read but last year my brain was so full with the move here and then taking German language classes that I just didn't have much bandwidth left at night to read.  Well, in the two weeks we have been back I'm nearly done with two books.  Just trying to keep up with the kids.  😉