Katie has begun reading more and more on her own. I was excited when she picked up a couple of Scooby Doo books at the library the other day because I knew they would likely challenge her. I feel like Foster really took off after tackling those level readers on his own.

I asked her yesterday if she thought she would be able to take them to bed and read them on her own and she said “sure!” Then today we had this conversation:

Me: “Katie how did you do with the Scooby Doo book?”

Katie: “Well, not very good.”

Me: “Really?” (genuinely surprised)

Katie: “Yeah, they are really hard.”

Me: “Are you just having trouble with certain words?”

Katie: “No, I don’t understand hardly any of the words.”

Me: (finally paying full attention) “What do you mean? What are some of the words?”

Katie: “There are all these 2 letter words that I don’t understand like el and la and se…”

Me: (so confused) “Could you bring the book please?”

Katie: “Sure.” (hands me the book)

…and the book is written in Spanish…

Total mommy fail. This is what happens when I take the preschooler and toddler to the library. I didn’t even notice that she had checked out 2 Spanish Scooby Doo books. I just had to laugh and tell her I was sorry that I am sure she will have an easier time reading the ones written in English.

Good grief.