It's official - The Dr. said so.

The school screening was right, I took Jav for an official eye screening and Javan is color-blind. Really. I was amazed that the child was actually seeing things I could not on the test, that is an odd feeling. He has never given us reason to believe he had problems telling colors, what a great little compensator.

C-H-R-A-I-N

The child is 6 almost 7 and as of last night I though I had heard everything. You would think after 6 years of living with a little one and knowing all their little quirks and years of teaching and correcting speech patterns and heck...life in general I was thinking we were pretty much in the clear on the basics!

While studying spelling words with Jav last night he had to do "rhyming" words with the words of his choice. He chose the word "rain". Hmmmm....what rhymes with rain? Ok, I'll give the kid a few so we can move on - "P-ain, pain,you know Jav, when you fall and hurt yourself you have pain". Progress, right? Let's do one more.

Me: Choo choo (waiting for him to catch the hint)
Me: (again) Choo choo. Javan! Train
Javan: Teeerain
Me: Yes! Good job, train. Write it down.
Javan: Hahahah, train, Mom your funny,

This is when I realized something was not clicking here.

Me: What is so funny?
Jav: Train, that sounds funny, that is not a word.
Me: Jav! Choo choo, choo choo TRAIN.
Jav: What's that?

At this point I was worried he might have a head injury of some sort.

Me: JAVAN! A Train, like on railroad tracks?(Now I even drew a picture for him)
Jav: Oh! A chrain - choo choo chrain.

Yikes! AMAZING!

How long will he let me dress him like this?

This is so sweet. I know, I know...He is almost 7 and is now such a big boy but I just can not resist every now and then just getting so excited because he looks soooo cute and small still. Marissa by this age had A LOT of ideas as to how she would and would not allow me to dress her. Once, when buying new school clothes for sis for first grade I was excited to go the the little bow and clips section of Target to mix-and-match ribbons to go with her new outfits, she proceeded to tell me that she was now in first grade and she could not wear baby stuff like that!

Javan did not say a word as I dressed him in his little tram poncho with little faces. I Love it!!