He also likes to share much of what he does, so he more than likely won’t be doing much private journaling till he is older. That’s fine by me, too. I kept a journal around his age and have always in some form done so. It’s good to be able to freely express yourself without judgment.

His reading has improved drastically, so much so that he can read entire 2nd step books almost completely without any help. He may have stumbled twice the last time he read a full book. I am proud of his progress. His handwriting is also improving. From last month, his handwriting was extremely neat and legible in comparison to April of this year.

All in all, he is progressing nicely. We are working on Psalm 23 now as a line by line Bible study.

I am still struggling with my consistency in keeping notes on what he does. I have tried every way I can think of to make notes. The final straw will be for me to video tape everything we do, but then I wouldn’t get around to editing it LOL I really have to get better at this!

We would have walked out at that point if it had not been that my son needs care. He has this weird bone spur type thing on his chest under the skin. I want to make sure it is nothing serious. They cover xrays, so we stayed.

I also got him the last of his series of polio shots. The doctor kept trying to get me to do all 4 shots that he is missing. I told him we will NEVER do the chicken pox shot. We will NOT be doing any mixed serums, either. Then he asked me (respectfully, which was a shocker) why. I then gave him just a bit of my knowledge of vaccinations and their risks. He then says “Autism has not been proven” to which I retorted “Well I would rather not take that risk with MY child”. He respected my opinion! *more shock* After the treatment we received from intake, I would have expected the nurses and doctors to act in kind. Thankfully, that was not the case. The nicest person we saw all day was the one who gave him the vaccine. If she had not been, I would have demanded a different nurse!

Anyway, he came through it with flying colors and no real side effects other than the tell tale sore arm. All in all he had a great checkup. Nothing wrong with him other than that weird bump that is only bothering us, his parents, and not him LOL. Isn’t that always the way?

We are waiting for the paperwork confirmation to get his xray done. He also has to do a blood test because he has not had one since 2004. *We are mostly anti-doctor around here.*

All that said, I still left them a nice little comment on the bottom of the survey sheet they had in the doctor’s office about their service. I even put my name, which was optional. I am not ashamed of my opinion of them and therefore HOPE they call me on it. I expressed that they need to have people more mentally capable of dealing with multiracial children and people who are on unemployment. Here’s hoping they call so I can let them know EVERYTHING that went down while we were there.

Last night we talked about the differences between crocodiles and alligators, then looked over various species of reptile in his Charlie Brown encyclopedia. FUN!