Chance with a mustache in a taxi....

Chance is learning all kinds of vocabulary and is able to focus on learning more words now that he is hearing so much better. This makes us very happy!!!!

Chance has been trying out some of these new words that he is learning about. For instance, he told me the other night that when he was a daddy, he would be able to have a mustache and a beard and stroked his face. I told him that this was indeed true. Then Chance got to work making himself a black mustache to show his dad when he got home. Hmmm. Maybe a mustache is in Chance's future. He looks really cute with the two peice one that he tapes onto his face:)

Chance has been bringing home books to read to us each night. He is progressing with his reading but we have to work on his confidence some still. When he read to me the other night, he came to the word "taxi" and wasn't sure what it was. I asked him what it was again, and his head fell to the side as he said, "I can't do it!" I told him that he could do it, and then told him what the word was. It occured to me that Chance probably had no idea what a taxi is, so I asked him. He told me that he did not know what a taxi was. The word had no relevance for him. The book he was reading was talking about different ways that kids get to school. By bus, car, van, boat, walking, etc. I told Chance a story of when his dad and I had taken a taxi. This little tid bit of information helped him immensely and he read the book again, reading the word taxi. After we were done reading, Chance informed me that he wanted to ride a taxi to school. I told him that his bus driver would miss him. Chance shook his head and said "no". I told him that none of his friends would be in the taxi. Chance informed me that friends can indeed ride in taxis. So Chance's new ambition in life, is to ride in a taxi cab to school. There are not all that many taxes where we live (read: next to none). Otherwise, we could just let Chance have a little jont around the block in one. For now, Chance has riding in a taxi to look forward to in life.