Please, sir, may I read some more?

This morning I asked J to read a couple of pages in a German story called "Der Monster-Fänger." At work I get the following text from him: 

Moments like this make me believe that this whole L2 project of mine might actually even work in the long term!

Texting in German

A new era has begun in J's life, including his life in L2: texting! Here we are (me = green, J = white) corresponding about a Minecraft world we are working on together:

He uses his mommy's phone. Gonna be awhile before he gets his own!