Monday, November 23, 2009

The Curry's First Annual Read-A-Thon!

Stanton said to me this morning, "Let's all lay in bed and read lots of books today." Then I said, "Let's read every single book in your room." He and Noelle clapped and laughed, and then I brought every book they own out of their room. (Holy cow! I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into! There is another layer of books underneath the ones in the picture! On one of Stanton's potty breaks, I decided to count all of the books surrounding us, and there were 122. Robert is right, I buy them way too many books, but to my credit, 10 of those are library books.)
So, we layed blankets and pillows all over the floor, and we stayed in our pj's and had a "read-a-thon!" We started around 9:30am, and Statnon picked out the first book we would read, "Everyone Poops," a classic.
And Noelle picked, in advance, the last book we would read, "Curious George's Christmas."
I have to admit, I completely underestimated how long this would take. I imagined maybe two hours tops, but as we took our lunch break around noon, with mounds of books remaining, my throat was getting sore, and I was purposely skipping pages here and there and giving them the abridged version of Curious George and The Berenstein Bears. So we extended our lunch break and played some catch and finally got out of our pajamas. We were refreshed! We got back to it, and finished our last book at 1:57pm. We all cheered, and Stanton asked if we could have another read-a-thon tomorrow, and Noelle went in her room and looked at books. (I'm not kidding!) What a fun day!

8 comments:

mashby said...

Ha ha! I LOVED read-a-thon days in school. We should have come over - Max would have loved it! I don't think you would have wanted all your pages eaten though.

Myra said...

Ellie is here and I said, "look your friend Stanton." And she said, "No, he not my friend." I said: "Why not?"

"Only girls is my friend."

Oh little does she know the friendships a special boy will give her one day!

Cute read-a-thon, by the way. Can I sit in my pjs and you read to me?

Mahers said...

WOW! You are awesome. I don't think I could have stayed awake long enough to finish all those books. I'm amazed that your kids were interested that long!

Laurie said...

Kimmie, you've inspired me to stay in my pj's and read all day tomorrow. Seriously, I just may do it. Of course, I'll be reading to myself, in my head... which isn't nearly as fun/exciting, but a single gal's gotta do what she's gotta do. :-)

You are, truly, the most fun mom of all time. I love this story, I love how happy/energetic you are, and how much fun you have with your little family!

Nikki said...

Um wow, you are by far the best mom ever! You need a Best Mom of the Year Award. I would never have had the patience for that or been able to stay awake. That was AWESOME! I can't believe they sat through all those books. Just goes to show that books ARE just as good (better actually) than TV! We'd have a lot smarter and more motivated children in our schools system if they all had moms like you!

Malori and Jon Saline said...

That is such a fun idea!!!! You are such a great mom!!!

Billy and Kati said...

Kimmy you are a great mom! That is a lot of books to read! But the Everyone Poops book looks familiar...can I say Curry's Christmas Party?

Julie said...

You are the most fun mom ever! I wish I could be just like you!!!