Ending the Neverending Story

Since last year, K and I have set aside Saturday and sometimes also Sunday early mornings for reading out loud to J, usually about an hour. We first read C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, in the original English. After we finished that last Spring, we started Michael Ende's Unendliche Geschichte, me reading in German, K in English. 

We finally finished it yesterday. 

As you can see, J plays while we read. Sometimes he would bang about with his toys and makes spaceship sound-effects and not seem to be paying attention, whereupon we would halt with a huff and threaten to stop reading. But then time after time, when K & I were scratching our heads trying to recall an earlier episode in this long story, J would cooly note exactly when it was and pretty much exactly what was said. D'oh!