Well as
Ryan hasn’t featured much in this blog recently I thought we’d make this
last one before Christmas exclusively all about him.
So, what has happened to him this
year? He began by starting a new school, Jessica was concerned how he
may settle in, she needn’t have worried, quickly making friends and
finding the move no stress at all.
His speech therapy continued, he now
rides the bus twice a week during school time to go to his soon-to-be
elementary school and he’s kept going to his private sessions with
Kristen. The change has been amazing, as his confidence grows in his
ability to communicate he regularly leaves us pondering the days “when
he said nothing and it was so peaceful!” There’s still a few little
kinks to iron out, but overall he’s almost up to par which is amazing
given he was 14 months behind when he began at 2.
Ryan’s decided to add a few lumps
& bumps over the year, a repeated impact to his left side of his
forehead has seen a nasty swelling on at least 3 occasions - hopefully
thats one thing to grow out of in 2015!
The year has seen him develop more
interest in toys, first of all an interest in Transformers - Rescue Bots
saw repeated viewing of a 2o minute DVD (sigh) we were very grateful to
move him back to The Incredibles, Cars or Wall-E. Next up was
Minecraft after some problems understanding what he meant, a quick trip
to Target saw the beginning of a collection.
It’s safe to say Ryan is quite
talented in constructing things, and is happy drawing Wall-E, Eve &
especially skeletons. He’s able to make remarkably well thought out
lego shapes with no intervention from us.
The skeletons are linked to his
favorite holiday, Halloween. Singing along to the songs from The
Nightmare Before Christmas, and telling us how he’s drawn Jack the
Pumpkin King he really enjoyed trick or treating with some school
friends, he even braved going into a haunted “garage”!
After a few struggles, the alphabet is
now his most regular go-to song along with randomly quoting some
numbers and slowly getting to work out time (a theory that will
definitely need some working on). He’s now totally comfortable spelling
& writing his full name which he’s very proud of.
He is very, very excited about
Christmas, he helps turn on the tree lights each night and can’t wait to
raid the advent calendar - I think he believes Santa’s seen he’s been a
good boy so he’ll do well on Thursday I think.
Ryan has begun to ask some difficult
questions, he’s realized some of his friends have brothers & sisters
and wants to have one, we’ve begun to explain some of the story of
Nathan but he’s much too young to understand it fully of course. He has
decided he wants a sister though - maybe 2015 could see some
developments to keep him & us happy.
I keep getting told not to teach him
bad things, but it’s too tempting to wind him up at times “I’m not a
numpty Daddy!” and “pffftttt, Mommy farted!” are humorous, but his
uncanny ability to mimic things & people will see him in good stead
at the right times I think. Especially if he can continue to work on
his Mommy impression.
Goals for 2015 will be getting him to
have a full nights sleep in his room, going to school in August and
working on his swimming class so that he can be more confident &
capable in the water.
Well that’s it for this year, we
managed to be a little more consistent with our reporting, of course
Jessica diverted her time to her own blog which is full of more
important stuff than my half-assed efforts, but without this, how would
you know what we’ve been up to?
Have a great Christmas, I’m sure
you’ve been behaving so Santa doesn’t have you on the naughty list even
though most of you definitely belong on the permanently dodgy scroll and
I hope 2015 proves to be a full kick ass year!
Best Wishes,
J, J & especially Ryan Scott Hunt
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