Taking the Scenic Route

Zane update

This week he started swim lessons and tumble tots at the Y.  Both are parent participation.  He has done pretty well.  He also handled being in “Kid Zone”, the drop off nursery at the Y.  I went to pick up Zora after the tumble tots class and he wanted to play.  Since he was still pretty wound up, I decided to save my back and arms from a struggle out to the car and just let him play a bit longer.  In the swimming lesson, you might not have known he had issues if you weren’t looking closely…he did that well.  Yeah!

Later this week he has “Romper Stompers” which involves more singing and is a bit more directed than “Tumble Tots” (which only has teacher directed things for short bits, then organized chaos as they run through the equipment.  The teacher is the one he had for tap/ballet, and she remembered him and seemed happy to see him again.  It was nice.

The ST did an inventory of how he makes letter sounds and such this week.  I took that as a good sign, because she is starting to work on how he says sounds now instead of just trying to get him to say words.  She has noticed a big improvement in his ability to communicate and do social things like taking turns.  I am guessing that she didn’t expect to move to how he produces sound quite this soon, but his progress has been fairly rapid.  Since both dh and my brother were in speech therapy for how they produced sounds, it isn’t much of a surprise to me that he might struggle a bit with that.

On a frustrating front, he thinks it is pretty funny to try and leave when mama leaves the living/dining/kitchen area.  I have to be really vigilant about putting the chain lock on the door.  I can’t tell you how many times I hear the chain snapping open as he tries to leave when I go to the bathroom.  At least it means he is aware of where I am instead of so focused on what he is doing that he isn’t aware of his surroundings.  He has also figured out that if he puts the water in the bathroom sink really low I can’t hear it as well from the living room and thereby thwarting his fun.  He has overflowed the sink twice in the last two days.  I locked the door for a while last night after the first disaster, but forgot to lock it again this morning.  I am now glad I picked up some extra towels for swimming because they are being put to use cleaning up after Zane.   (SIL was thinning out her massive towel collection she got from their wedding, including two great beach towels that I am loving)

Today at Tumble tots, he got across the balance beam, twice, without any assistance.  Yesterday, he pulled socks on after I got them over his toes for him.  He wasn’t able to do the socks earlier today, but I will try again today when we need to go take out the trash and get the mail this afternoon. 

Zora update

Not a lot of changes, but seems to handle “kid zone” ok at the Y when I drop her off to do Zane’s lessons.  It only took 2 days for the people there to remember her.  I thought it was sort of interesting that when I went to pick her up today there was another child in a swing, but she was being held.  I liked that.