Clear back at Christmas, Brad and Chanda got each of the kids a book. They got Fablehaven for Audrey. The thing about Audrey is she loves to read, but she gets scared easily. That’s an understatement. She’s a wimp. One time while watching the beginning of Night at the Museum (not even a scary part – mind you), she started screaming and bawling to the point, where Danielle and I left with her to do something else while everyone else watched. Anyway, I didn’t know how she would do with Fablehaven, so I thought if I read it with her, it might help. Brad turned the audio book on for us and we sat in his office listening to it and following along. After a couple of chapters, Audrey told me she was done and walked off.
A little while later, this is how I found her.
She’s told me since then that she doesn’t want to listen to the audio books of Fablehaven because the voices might be too scary. Audrey set it aside a few times, but finished it up by the beginning of February. She was so excited about the book and the characters, that I decided to get her the second book and finish the first one myself. I got really into them and ended up getting the whole set for Valentines day, but Audrey is really hard on books, so I was a little selfish with my books. She finished the second one and I bought her the third one as a St. Patrick’s day gift (No… we don’t normally give St. Patrick’s day gifts, but it was a good excuse to buy it).
On Saturday, we got to go meet Brandon Mull and get our books signed!
I think meeting him lit a fire under her because she had read two chapters before Saturday and had finished book three by Tuesday. I know I’ve been bragging about Audrey all through this post, but it’s about to get much, much worse. So, if you can’t stomach the bragging, you might want to stop reading now.
So, while we were in line to meet the author, Audrey was reading book three and I was reading book five. The lady in front of us came back to Audrey and said, “How old are you?”
Audrey answered, “Seven,”
The lady said, “And you’re reading that yourself?!”
Audrey smiled and nodded.
Then later, after waiting in line for probably a half hour or so, the lady looked at me and said, “It’s just so cute watching her read. She’s so into it.”
Wait! There’s more. Then, when we met Brandon Mull, he asked Audrey how old she was and she answered, “seven,” again. He said he had a seven year old daughter too. Then a little while later, he said, “Wait! And you’re reading these yourself?” I was so proud of my girl and I could tell she was so flattered. It was so fun. We ended up buying the rest of the books for her while we were there.
