I'm going to start using this to journal Zachary's progress.

I am certain that there will also be updates on Jonathan and Nate too, but I'm determined keep a written account of his progress. I've tried writing it in a notebook, but find that it's much easier for me to record my thoughts whilst typing, that and I am way to critical of my own handwriting, so it becomes more about the handwriting than how Zachary is doing.

I'm going to go back a day on this one, and continue on to today. Zach is making strides in his learning, it's so wonderful to witness everything he's learning in such a short time it seems. We are getting better and better reports from school, it took him quite a while to transition well into the ASD classroom at the elementary school. They are teaching him so much, and we had good news, if his transitional and a few minor behavior issues are resolved by the end of the year, he will be able to go into the EELP program next year, and possibly be able to attend regular kindergarten in two years.

We (Scott and I) received his progress report from Head Start today we are so impressed, as are his teachers. He know's all of his alphabet by sight, knows 9 different colors, and can correctly count to 10. He's also learning more and more words by sight, yesterdays big word was "Seasons," he read it off a Seasons Greetings plaque we have hanging on the front of the house. He surprises us at least twice a week with words that he has learned that we didn't know about. I also love that the first word that he says when coming in the door from Scott picking him up at School is usually "Mommy!"

Potty training is sort of going, not progressing a lot, but I've not been putting a whole lot of effort into it as he didn't seem interested. Now his interest in it has gotten a bit better, so I put up a chart on what he needs to do (pull pants and pull up down, etc.) on the wall by the toilet and added some little smiley faces doing a thumbs up for him to put up when he's done each step. We're going to really start this weekend, as I dont want to heap too much on him during the week, and as it is easier to keep him semi naked for the potty at home.

A little funny about him, he has learned the song "Jingle Bells" and loves to sing it, though he doesn't remember the part about the one horse open sleigh, so it goes normally, then at the end it's " a one two bee bop day, HAY!" The "Hay" being his most favorite part of course.