Jake is having such a terrific summer. We are seeing a big increase in his expressive language - and my mom noticed a big jump in receptive from last summer (as she put it, "I can ask him to do something now and he will do it!"). But it's this past month or so where we have seen lots of new words, new sentences, especially. And using "I" to start them instead of echoing what we say. So if you say, "Did you go to Daddy's baseball game?" he can now spontaneously reply, "I went to watch Daddy's baseball game," or something similar. Not an exact echo, plus proper intonation. He is also asking for things more often and more completely and clearly. And sometimes when you just start him off with, "I..." or pointing to yourself and mouthing "I..." he will surprise you. I did this the other day and he said, "I like funny!" And if he is melting down and I say, "What's the matter?" he will reply, "I sad. I crying-sad!" Crying-sad is what he is when he is crying, you see.
Life has been incredibly busy but good. We are working on a sight reading program, eReadingPro, which was generously donated for us to trial. We are in the beginning stages but so far it is going well and I will post more about this as we get further along. They have been using mostly phonics in school, although I think they also tried Edmark, but he isn't really reading yet and I'm determined to change that by the time school starts again.
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