First Day of School

The boys started a couple of days apart at their schools. Evan is now in the big school! He started 5K in a special classroom with his wonderful assistant, Hannah. He will now eat breakfast and lunch in the school cafeteria with his class. At 6 years old, Evan is now doing several things:

1. Evan loves his daddy. He is such a daddy's boy.
2. Evan does not talk with words, but is learning more words on his iPad through the AVAZ program, as well as using sign language for simple requests such as eat.
3. He will now sit in a chair to eat without having to be restrained as much. He still loves to knock over all drinks on the table, so this is closely monitored at restaurants.
4. Evan loves the little packaged muffins more than life itself. He can eat 3 bags at a time, if we let him. He loves bacon.

We are excited to see how he does with the big kids at elementary school.

Alex started at the ELC again this year, but now in 4K. We were hoping to get him in the CDC for all day 4K, but he was last on their long waiting list. If we had low income or Alex had special needs, he would have been a candidate. Lucky for us, we love the ELC. His teacher is Ms. Barbara, who is Hannah's mom! So both by boys have teacher/aide from the same family. They can't get away from us! Alex has many skills at 4 years old:

1. Alex practices writing his letters. He does not like writing, but works on it daily. He constantly asks me how to spell things, but he's not quite reading, yet. He does know many sight words.
2. Alex can count to 1000, by 2s, 10s, or 100s. He loves doing math. He even knows negative numbers.
3. He loves candy and popsicles. He could skip all real food and eat junk and drink milk all day. He does not like any breakfast foods. 

The boys were excited to start back to school after a full summer of summer camps for Alex, ABA therapy for Evan, and a trip to Orlando, Florida.