This weekend Logan seemed quite confident in many things.  We started the weekend with a playdate on Saturday morning.  We were going to meet at the Oak Meadow Park with Logan’s classmate Rohan (and parents), but because of the unsettling weather, we changed to the Bouncy Land at the mall.  Rohan loves jumpy houses and immediately went inside, but asked Logan to join in.  Both Logan and Connor were reserved initially, took a bit of time before warming up and jumping into the fun.  Maybe it was because his best buddy was there, Logan became comfortable quickly as he climbed and crawled inside the inflatables.  There was one that was quite high and required some climbing, and Logan did not show any hesitation at all.  Connor had fun bouncing on one for awhile, then the rest of the times, he just wanted to go wherever Logan was even sometimes when the big boys were in one for 5 years and older. We took a snack break in between, and the boys played for over an hour there.  We then had lunch together at the food court before calling an end to the playdate.  One cute thing we learned from his parents was that when Rohan gets dropped off in the morning, Logan and a few boys always have a huddle together in the courtyard.  They talk about their hats and their shirts every morning.

     Logan likes to do mazes lately, and for the past few days, I decided to ask him to write his name on the papers after he completed the mazes just to start a new habit.  He only knew “L” and “O”, so I held his hand to write the remaining letters the first few days.  Then two nights ago, I wrote his name down on a paper and just had him copy it.  Logan never cared to follow my lead, but would just do it to move on to the next maze.  But last night, while I was paying attention to Connor, Logan wrote his name on the page without my prompting and did a nice job all by himself.  He was so proud to call my attention to what he did.

     We also thought that Logan only knew a few letters as he only often said “L for Logan”, “C for Connor”, “M for mommy” and “O”.  We tried to teach him more by playing some games with him in the past, but he did not seem too motivated to learn.  However at bath time last night, Logan all of sudden started pointing out many of the foam letters in the bath.  He pointed out “D for Devin”, “I for Ian”, “R for Ryan”, “A for Alex” and “Z for Zach”,  They all are classmates in school.  He also pointed out Q, F, N, P, and some numbers, 4, 5, 6 and he knew that when we flip 6 over, it was 9.  He was on a roll; both Stuart and I were so shocked.

     Stuart even told me that some of the things Logan had said this weekend seemed quite clever.  I guess Logan is learning a lot, but just not interested to show us until he is ready.