THE READING IS ON THE WALL

Tobin has clearly been benefiting from having an older sibling to learn from. He recently had an assignment to complete a little information about himself when he was the 'Star of the Week' in kindergarten. Since he has the same teacher that Blane did, it mirrored an assignment we had to help Blane with 2 years earlier.

Kristen took the opportunity to pull Blane's out, and do a quick comparison. Tobin, it turns out, is clearly much more comfortable with his letters, and writing than Blane was at this age. Of course, Tobin has the example and observations of his older brother to thank for this advanced pace.

But it's funny. We've been nervous about Tobin's progress. While we've known he could handle it, we've had worries over his attention span. But little measures like this go to show, we're probably just forgetting how things were just a couple years before. It's so easy to get caught up in how we think they should be progressing and acting, that in our minds I think we (at least I) sometimes paint them as adults, far too early. I'm officially putting myself on notice to allow them to be kids as long as possible - that is, as long as they're still kids...