Maddy earns a day out

Maddy is getting better at reading, although she won't admit to it. She is at the point now where reading is still work, so if she has a choice, she prefers not to do it.

To counter that, we have come up with a reading challenge. If Maddy reads 10 books to Ash and I during the week, she gets to pick a place to go on Saturday. The location has to be agreed upon at the beginning of the week, so we don't get any crazy surprises. And she can only re-read the same book twice.

We came up with this plan kind of late in the week. Thursday to be exact, but the location was Monkey Joe's in Rockford, so she had her incentive. Maddy spent all of Friday plowing through books and she got her 10 books in by the end of the day. So Saturday morning we were off to Monkey Joe's, where Maddy bounced a lot!

Then we made a stop at the Half Price Bookstore, because who doesn't need books.

Maddy picked out some good ones. Her two favorites were a book on how to make paper pinhole cameras.

And a dinosaur book that had a pop-out stegosaurus to build.

We just found out that there is a bounce house place in Freeport now, so that is what we are challenging Maddy with this week! Here's to a week of reading!