Ivo at School

So Ivo doesn't like the idea of going to school but, thankfully, he seems to like actually being at school. He gives positive, though sketchy, reports and his communication book, written by the teacher, says he "coordinates" with classmates and with teachers, that he eats snack and his mood is "happily attend."

Yesterday, he really didn't want to go. It was only his 3rd day and the first that we hadn't gone somewhere else first...but he was in an excellent mood when Ryan picked him up. He was all-around happy. Happy to have been there and happy to see Papa.

Last night in bed I asked Ivo about the teacher having changed his pants. Ivo said "yea, that teacher like me so much - that teacher love me." That's all I need to know. I was curious about the why (my guess is cuz they were too big) and how Ivo handled it. From how Ivo characterizes the situation, I'm gonna assume all's well.

More Dora and Boots: Dora is Boots' best friend. Who is Doras' best friend? Boots. Who is Ivo's bf? (pause) Papa. Who is Papa's bf? Ivo. Who is Mama's bf? Burl. Aside from the initial pause, these questions were no-brainers for Ivo.

I think some part of Ivo's not sharing info about school is due to language (school is totally Chinese and Taiwanese). He answers questions with yes and no but without elaboration (excepting the pants episode). Ivo tried to tell me something about school but I couldn't understand and asked him to say again. I think it made him self conscious and he realized he didn't know the word... Something like that. Ivo will use words, having only ever heard them once regardless of never having practiced pronouncing them. Usually when I don't understand, he'll repeat and if still unintelligible, he'll try other words to explain. I think when he tried tried to repeat, he couldn't access that word again and it threw him.

Burl loves to have light finger walking tickles, laughing, talking (still)and looking at himself doing all of these thing in the mirror.

Ivo loves shadows.

Today we went to the park to work on Ivo's bike-pedaling.