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November 07, 2007
School
Ethan's generally been enjoying school a lot lately. He's still a homebody and would probably prefer to just stay at the house and play games all day, but still... since he finished many of the language materials near the beginning of this year, Jude (the head of the school) has been working with him to invent some new "purple boxes." They pick objects, put them in a box, and then he gets them out and spells them. Things like dinosaur, motorcycle... whatever they can find that seems fun to spell. He really likes that, and there will be other kids who might do them later as well.
Today's the last day of swimming lessons this time around - probably his last time in Penguin, as he's gotten quite good at back floats and front glides. He wants to wait a while before doing it again. This time was fun, though, because Linna had a class at the same time. Mostly Jeff went with her, and she's gotten really comfortable being in the water with him. In fact, she loves it.
Linna's been super cranky lately, and this morning she kept coming up to Ethan, grabbing a hunk of his hair, and pulling as hard as she could. She did it three separate times as I was trying to get everything ready (Jeff's out of town), and amazingly, Ethan didn't retaliate. He yelled, and he swiped a hand at her, but didn't actually hit or push her. Amazing control considering that more often lately, I've had to really watch him because he's prone to pushing her over if she knocks his blocks down or whatever.
Posted by ktingey at November 7, 2007 10:28 AM