Kyle

Kyle has an incredible love of books. This might suprise you if you know much about Kyle -- at first glance Kyle seems super-active and easily distracted. He is those things, but he's also always had an incredibly long attention span for reading. I remember when we first got him -- we were in the hotel in Haiti and we had brought two board books with us. Kyle would just sit on our laps and just watch/listen to those two books over and over and over. I remember saying to Braydon on the second or third day: "This child is going to be a poet or an author or something -- he is so focused and determined and expressive." Kyle has continued to have an extraordinary love of books and reading. At this point, he has about 50-60 books memorized (no joke); he literally can turn each page and recite each book word-for-word. In this photo he was "reading" at the table in his bedroom -- a very common activity for him -- he was turning the pages of one of his current favorite's Please Baby Please by Spike Lee and his wife (click here for info). As he turned each page he recited the words on each absolutely perfectly. This ability to "read" so many books, and this love of books is something noticeable about Kyle.