Moving On Up

Nico has had some major changes lately. First, about a month ago, the little man graduated from speech! His SLP evaluated him again in mid-July and Nico's receptive score went up (which had already been above the mean) and his expressive score sky rocketed to be above the mean! Both Lauren (the SLP) and I were so incredibly proud of Nico and the hard work he has put in. I know Nico will miss speech therapy. He really enjoyed going and loved "playing" with Lauren. We do go back for a final evaluation in January to make sure he has been making progress on his own.

Another change is that Nico has moved up to the next class at his school. He is now in the Early Preschool II class. We had Meet the Teacher Night a couple of weeks ago, which was fun. There was face painting, train rides and snow cones for the kids. This past Monday Nico had his first day with Mrs. Short and Ms. Mouton. Although, he absolutely loves Mrs. Cooth, his EPS I teacher, he was looking forward to moving down the hall to Mrs. Short's class.

Monday morning, this mommy was more nervous than her little guy. I walked Nico into the classroom and he went straight over to his friends and got started in the activity. No tears....at least not on Nico's part, just a "bye Mommy." My little man sure is growing up and I couldn't be more proud of him.

Here are a couple pictures I snapped on the way into school on Monday morning.