Love, Leo and 100 Days

Yes, it was Valentine's Weekend 'round these parts.

I wrote the list of children in Leo's class (I imagine he could have done this himself if we'd had more time). When I presented him with the list of names he was alarmed.

"Leo! What about Leo?" he asked. He reached for the paper and immediately added his own name.

I reminded him that you don't give a valentine to yourself, that those were the names of the people he was giving valentines TO.

"Oh!" Leo laughed. He then erased his name and wrote his signature sign-off for Valentine's Day. The standard "from" just won't do, oh no. For him it's simple:

"Love, Leo."

We also completed Leo's "100 Days Project." The assignment was to compile a poster of 100 things to commemorate 100 days of school which, barring any snow days (cough, cough, mildest winter ever) is slated to fall on February 16.

Here's the illustration and title page. I was pretty impressed to learn that Leo knows about apostrophes. You'll notice how in many pictures where he's writing he's leaning over. His OT often has him lay on his stomach when he colors and writes as it helps him keep himself steady.

In other Leo news, his speech has taken an interesting turn. He seems to be in touch with the Yiddish roots that comprise fifty percent of his gene pool and is now pronouncing many of his hard "k" endings with a "huch" sound. It's hard to explain in writing here but the Yiddish speakers in the crowd know what I'm talking about. "Look" sounds like "luch." In all seriousness, I think his speech therapists are really drilling into him the importance of crisp word endings as he will often drop the endings of words ("yeah" instead of "yes"--though "yes" has recently become a Sean Connery kind of yes, more like "yesshhh." Hey, I'll take it.

Also, school seems to have fully indoctrinated him to the definition of Bullies. Now, if anyone is remotely mean to Leo he immediately accuses them of being a bully. Probably no shock to learn that Ellie is called a bully at least a dozen times a day.