Alex and Big 5

Pool party! We had ice cream and cake at the pool with family and friends.


Cool gifts.

Five years old is significant because it is the beginning of school, Kindergarten. Alexander has grown in leaps and bounds this last year. He started riding a three wheel scooter and now cruises around on his Tonka bicycle like a pro with the help of training wheels. Alex made the deadline for school by only thirteen days. He is developmentally delayed in hand strength which makes writing hard. We have been actively participating in early intervention programs and speech therapy since he was two. We were told that he had apraxia which is a very difficult speech problem that is difficult to overcome. We were relieved to find out that he does not have apraxia but phonological replacement difficulties.
Alex met his most wonderful and loving teacher Melanie McPherson last week, who fell in love with Alexander's quirky little sense of humor and personality. We are thrilled to have him in her small classroom of 9 kids (7 boys and 2 girls) with 2 aids in the special education program at Snow Springs Elementary.
For his birthday Alex wanted a squirt gun and Lightning McQueen. So he got a monster big squirt gun and a birthday card from Grandma Marilyn that plays rock music when opened. He was thrilled. And when he got school clothes from Grandma Sherry he immediately laid them out on the floor in arranged outfits.