What a heart-warming surprise I had today.  During the time the student was reading to my dog, he stopped and said, “I am so excited today, I just can’t stand it.”  I asked him why and he said, “because I can read to BaileyRose (my dog.)  Later he turned to me and said, “I like you, old people are so polite,”  He was a joy to be reading to BaileyRose.