It's been a rainy and gloomy January week around here (hence the blog background!), but we've had a great week anyhow! Gabriel has had a fairly short verbal vocabulary until just recently in the last few weeks. He slowed down a little in his sign language usage and he started focusing in on actually saying some words! In the last two weeks, the words have just flowed from him! Yah! The list includes:
"boose" - juice
"crack-cows" - crackers
"goo" - glue
"gock gog" - hot dog
"pease" - please - Julio always asks him to sign please at the dinner table and in mid January, he actually said the word!!
"ap-poes" - apples
"ceck" - cake - which he quickly learned when he saw Ayden's birthday cake last week! :)
"dink"- drink
"geg" - egg
"mice" - knife
The list goes on, but instead of signing most of the time, he is now doing a mix of speaking and signing. He seems to enjoy the signing still and gets excited to sign the words that he knows and he also seems quite proud of himself and his new voice! :)
On the Ayden front, I can't believe I will be going in on February 4th to register him for Kindergarten! He will be going to the new school up the road and we are excited! His preschool classroom teachers are doing a great job of getting him ready, but I've decided that I need to do some extra prep at home and so Ayden and I put together a really simple binder of some lined paper so that he can work on spelling, writing, reading and numbers. I am going to try to do a quick lesson each day until July when the big first day will be! Today was a great start, he spelled mat, pat, web (ha,ha) and meat! He is doing really well on hearing the sounds a word makes and then spelling them.
Oh yes, one more thing! Ayden went in for his five year physical! Yikes! Can't believe I have a five year old! He is doing well and got his kindergarten paperwork (showing that he has all necessary immunizations). He is not a huge kid but is in the 90% for height and weight! He is 42 inches tall and weighs just ounces under 50 pounds! My theory is that he is so super physically active (which hasn't changed since he could move!), that all the muscle he's built up is what weighs so much. I mean, he is s thin kid, you wouldn't think he weighs that much! It won't be long before I truly cannot pick him up without injuring myself! :)
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