We keep on moving. Days seem to just go on. Levi has been more grumpy than usual but I have little to complain about given that he really has the mildest temperament! He is happy enough but has little niggling things. Maybe he is just testing me. Today we went to soccer in his school clothes, because he had decided that he 'hated' soccer and didn't want to get dressed. I told him that I didn't care what he wore but we are going to soccer. Of course, half way there he 'loved' soccer again. Who knows what that kid is thinking sometimes!
At the moment my house looks like someone exploded a few cardboard boxes in it. Levi's new game in the last few weeks has been to cut up cardboard boxes.
Is he making things with them? I hear you ask.
"No, he isn't" would be the answer.
He is seriously cutting up the boxes into little squares about 2 inches square. Every now and then, he builds something with sticky tape and staples, depleting my store of both. Mostly however he just cuts then up and either gives the bits out as 'coupons' or 'tickets'. Again, who knows what that kid is thinking sometimes??
Every night before he goes to sleep, after the stories and the sight words but before the cuddles, he wants me to give him maths problems. He can do most addition to about 100. He can do Subtraction from 100 to about -20 and he can do multiplication to about 50. Tonight I asked him 3 X 8 and he got to 24 but it was from a very interesting angle. He goes from what he knows. He divided 8 by 2 and got 4. Then he multiplies 4 by 3 getting 12. Finally adding 12 and 12 together. It was certainly not the direction that I would have gone and was fairly convoluted, but there is a basic logic to it all. So much fun to watch him learn sometimes!
You know, if I didn't know that Levi was not on the autism spectrum (Asperger's), I would wonder if he was on the spectrum just because his quirks & sensory stuff remind me often of my Aspies. That, by the way, is in no way intended as an insult or slight... just an outsider's observation.
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