More about Reading

The summer drips on around here, we are taking a break from doing anything around here this week, because I decided that it would be a good idea to put Cotton in Summer school, and Landon in a Mother's day out program, and on top of that we have VBS. So, we are busy and having lots of fun. I decided to go ahead with summer school, because the teacher is the vision coordinator, and one of the aides, will be an aide in the class he is going into in the fall. On top of that, I really wanted him to get to know a few of the kids. It's going well, he loves school, so that is never a problem. Landon loves MDO too, and it gives me a chance to spend a lot of 1:1 with Rev. Who is picking up on his language development. (If you pray, pray that this continues.) I had so much fun at VBS last night, I am "shadowing Cotton," and I was thrilled that he was able to answer all the kids questions with his talker. He needed a bit of prompting, okay so a lot, but he NEVER uses it with strangers and last night he was really excited to be interacting with the kids. One of the little boys came over, got in Cotton's face and said "It was really nice having you in my class!" I wanted to scream "Where is your mother and does she give lessons!" Melt my stinking heart!!

So about the reading, I am so proud of the boys. Landon is a natural reader, I am so impressed with how quickly he is picking it up, and how fluently he is reading. Cotton has been struggling with the BOB books, or rather I have, I just can't always tell if he is saying the right word. I will continue to press with them, but we will see. However, I discovered that PRC has online books that Cotton can read with his talker! Duh, mom. Let me just say he is doing very well with those little books, and I have plans to make more as he progresses. PRC (the makers of his talker) have an entire online curriculum to teach kids how to use their device and I should have been taking more advantage of it. It's free and all, but if you know me, I am all about doing it the hard way first:)