{"id":1070,"date":"2010-03-04T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:20:09","slug":"reading-serena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Reading Serena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1073 alignright\" title=\"img_7403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_7403-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"img_7403\" width=\"233\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_7403-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_7403-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>Serena reads everything she can get her eyes on. She LOVES this new window into the world. It&#8217;s like a whole layer of the universe has opened a door to her.<\/p>\n<p>The other day during bedtime books, she read half of the book Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown. It&#8217;s a beautiful book, see:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1071\" title=\"littleislandcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/littleislandcover.jpg\" alt=\"littleislandcover\" width=\"136\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/littleislandcover.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/littleislandcover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But even more meaningfully, it has gorgeous and relatively difficult reading. And she just plugs along &#8211; struggling through the words until she can sound them out and say them all.<\/p>\n<p>When we woke this next morning (Serena had been up for a half hour or so already), she said, &#8220;I finished reading The Little Island by myself!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have wondered if Serena would have trouble sticking to things because she gives up easily on physical activity &#8211; like riding a bike, climbing walls, that kind of thing. But it&#8217;s not that she has trouble sticking to things, it&#8217;s that she wasn&#8217;t playing in her strengths and interests right then so she didn&#8217;t care as much. I so get that &#8211; I&#8217;m like that about physical stuff, too.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, as Jim and I sit in the office working (Stacey is here with them), all three girls are in the fort we made this morning and Serena is reading them a book with a flashlight. Sniff sniff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena reads everything she can get her eyes on. She LOVES this new window into the world. It&#8217;s like a whole layer of the universe has opened a door to her. The other day during bedtime books, she read half of the book Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown. It&#8217;s a beautiful book, see: But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,7,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longsongplaying.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}