He got to see her again on Tuesday while I went to my Bible Study. He came home with a lego bulldozer that him and Guy put together later that night. Thank you Grandma!
The bulldozer was probably the biggest lego to date, and Guy told me that he stayed focused on it for a good 45 minutes before he started losing steam. So Guy raced through the rest of it while Nico started playing with the lego guys, role-playing with the half-built bulldozer. They had fun.
Nico's really been digging the color-by-numbers. There is a website where you can print free copies and they add to them all the time. They just added about 7 of them and Nico's been rifling through them. We are burning through markers! He supplements with crayons.
We've been implementing something we call "You and Me Time" which is where Nico and I play together doing whatever he wants to do for 10 minutes, no distractions, no phone, computer, no iPad. We play at other times, too, but this gives us structure and a name to it, so he knows he can expect at least one You and Me Time per day. Guy has been trying to do this with him too. It's supposed to cut down on the acting out, which, it does! I am going through some parenting videos and lessons from Positive Parenting Solutions online. It's been helpful. We have a parenting TOOL BOX, and the #1 tool is You and Me Time. The #2 tool is Calm Voice. That's as far as I've gotten. Because we don't have a separate room for Nico it's hard to implement time outs, so we're trying to find other ways.
Anyway, for You and Me Time this week, he has almost always chosen color-by-numbers.
Here's some preschool pictures from a few weeks ago, I forgot to add them last week. This is him and his friend Ella.
On Friday we visited the Language and Learning Center at Calico to check out their program there. We are considering it for summer time. It would be twice a week for three hours. They read the same book every day for a few weeks and focus on speaking correct sentence structure and using right language. Then he'd get pulled out for 30 minutes every day to do 1:1 speech therapy. We want him to be as prepared for kindergarten as he can get… and the time this summer will be pretty important. So, he'll be tested in May so we can determine how necessary it would be to enroll him in the program.
And speaking of Kindergarten - AH! Official registration day is next Thursday. I already filled out the forms, but I have to go in with Nico and they need to give him a quick test to see where he stands, then they send us home with a packet of stuff to make sure to go over this summer. The whole town will be there so I'm going to try to show up a tad early. Ok, not the whole town, but all the people within the school's boundary that have kindergarteners.
Until next time..
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