Preschool

Axton talks a lot when he wants to but can also be very quite. I understand what he's saying, most of the time, but I know not everyone else does. Some of his words sound similar and some I simply can't understand for the life of me and he gets so frustrated by it as do I. So we got him tested through the school district for a speech delay and discovered he has a hard time rounding his lips, like to blow bubbles, so his words don't sound right. He also tends to drop letters when there is more than one consonant so when he says stop, it sounds like sop, or top. He was very borderline on his scores, but they decided to accept him into their preschool program!

I am so glad that we are able to get on top of it before it becomes an issue, although I think he would have been ok either way but he'll for sure see improvement, and that he gets to have so much fun doing it. He gets to go to school at Cortina Elementary 4 days a week for 2 1/2 hours! Best part for Greg is that it's free and for a gauranteed year, best part for me is that I get to run errands without a 3 year old making it take longer than it has too! Best part for Axton: he gets to make friends outside of the neighborhood and ward, he gets to play, he gets to learn and hopefully will talk more clearly so the frustration will go away, he gets to learn how to behave in a school setting, the list goes on and on. He loved his first day and can't wait to go back. I think the weekends will be hard for him.

His first day!

Greg bought the backpack, it has Spiderman, Wolverine, and I think Iron Man? Axton loves it even if he doesn't know who any of the characters are.