I was talking to my friend last night who is an ISP teacher.  She was asking about Kurtis and how his talking is.  I told her he seems to be coming out of his shell these days.  As I was explaining his new found exertion something significant dawned on me...in each eval they did on him where he was supposedly behind, they never ONCE took into account that we moved when he was two then immediately had a baby.  I wish I'd thought of that when they had me so worried.

Nowadays he is doing great.  When we go to the park he runs around and plays like all the other kids instead of standing at the end of the slide waving his hands around.  At first I thought it was because he'd become comfortable with the places we go but I noticed over our short vacation that he was doing the same in the play areas that he'd definitely never been to.  I might even have to start keeping as close an eye on him as I do Stanley and Louis because he's not always my little shadow anymore.

In school we are working on the letter sounds (SWR starts with sounds, not names) and counting to 15.  He's got 1-10 down pretty well.  He is memorizing a short poem by RL Stevenson right now and is also working on the names of the continents and the names of compass directions (N, S, E, W).  He is still working on memorizing the 1st Q&A of the Heidleberg....gee, sometimes I wish we were Presbyterian. ;-)

He is completely potty trained, actually has been for a while but decided to do a regression thing for some unkown reason around Christmas.  He likes to play Power Rangers with his brothers and loves his dance class.  He'll be having his first recital in June.  *yikes* I hope he can handle that.  He may be more outgoing than he used to be but performing is not quite the same thing.

Here's Kurtis (along with his brothers) outside our hotel on Sunday.