Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween

Argh Matey!


The first pumpkin Aeden got to design by himself. He drew the face, Eric carved.



Sunday, October 8, 2006

Philosophical Aeden

Aeden has a ton of sight words on the fridge. They were divided with the ones he knows on the freezer and the ones he didn't know on the fridge door.

This week he spent a lot of time moving them all to the fridge door and packing them together.

He then used three words to make a sentence "I am here".

We were, of course, duly impressed.

Today Eric pointed out that Aeden has changed his sentence to "Am I here".

ROFL! Mr. philosophical.

Saturday, October 7, 2006

I know my numbers!

In Sam's Club today they had one of those big bowl shaped donation things where you put the coin in the side and it spins down.

Over it was a sign that said something to the effect of "Last year the foundation raised $12,944."

Eric read the sign to Aeden and stopped before saying the number, he then asked Aeden what number it was.

Aeden then read it CORRECTLY!! He read it as twelve thousand nine hundred forty-four without any hesitation. :D

Of course he didn't say dollars. :P But even Eric was impressed that Aeden knew the correct way of saying it instead of just naming the numbers.

When asked Aeden says "I know my numbers". ;)

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Articulation

We had a conference with Aeden's teacher and the speech pathologist at his school. They haven't finished all of the testing yet, but it looks like his main (only) issue is articulation.

Apparently his articulation level is that of a child who is 3 years 0 months old.

This isn't really surprising to us and we are moving forward with the process to get him services and an IEP. I just hope it moves quickly.