Leon the Community Helper

Since my last post, we enrolled Leon in private kindergarten at his school, and he’s already outpacing many of his older classmates. Supposedly the owners had to buy him chapter books because the books they had in the classroom weren’t challenging enough for him. He knows addition up to 20 or so and subtraction from 10. I’m not sure what we’ll do in regards to kindergarten next year, because he’s already learned so much. He came home talking about binary the other day…

And as of August, he’s in the public school district’s speech program, and they bus him back and forth from kindergarten twice a week — for free. He can now say K’s and G’s with ease, and while he still struggles with R and H blends, multiple people have commented lately that it’s much easier to understand him.

Aside from articulation though, he’s doing well communicating and loves telling us stories (either real things that happened during his day or completely made up). He’s able to order his own food in restaurants — from picking out what he wants by reading the menu, to speaking his order loud enough for the waiter/waitress to hear, to saying “thank you” when his food arrives. He has great manners and is overall the sweetest little boy. 

And last week was Halloween! Because we drive by the crossing guards every morning, Leon wanted to dress up as one! He was adamant for weeks that that was what he wanted to be, and he never changed his mind. It wasn’t the most intricate outfit to put together, but I really can’t complain that my kid had the safest costume of the night!