(A few weeks back Jon discovered an old videotape which had a few minutes of a four-year-old Weather Network broadcast accidentally taped on it. Ever since he has insisted on watching the thing daily, until we finally stipulated that he could only watch it during his physio exercises.—L)

Jan. 10/07

I like to do exercise with the old Local Forecast. I like to do up and down exercise. And then I love to do dancing exercise. And last I do stomping exercise. When I stop the video taip I do exercise to the new Local Forecast. I like to do stomping exercise. Tonight I’m going to watch Franklin.

Jon

Jan. 8/07

I did something for Chrismiss. I like to hang the stokings. I like to go home. I am about to go home I had a grait holaday. I went to see the puppies. I went to the movies. Tonight I’m going to lissin to the old local forecast music during medek I step on the mat.

Jon

(We’ve been trying to get Jon to carry on writing his journal before his brain turns into holiday-flavoured mush, but only in the last couple of days has he willingly done so. —L)

(Dec. 31)
Puppies
I liked to see the puppies. I’m looking forward to getting a puppy. I like to cuddle the puppy. I will be seeing the puppies soon.

Jon

(Jan 2: We saw a matinée of Happy Feet this afternoon. Jon quite enjoyed the outing, even if he often seemed more interested in his movie snacks than in the movie.)

The movie
I saw Happy Feet in the movie theatore. My favorite penguin is Mumble. I like the dancing penguins. I like watching the credits.

This is actually an escalator at the airport, not the subway. Yes, it matters to Jon!

I went on the subway I got to whole foods market I went on the elevater and then I went on the escalator. An escalator is some stairs that move. Do you like to go on an escalator? Yes I do! My dad picked me up and down on the escalator.

I’m about to go to the escalator.

Tonight I am going to watch the old Local Forecast.

Jon

Some Jon news from the last couple of (eek!) few weeks:

Jon is playing intramural wheelchair hockey at school (he’s on the Canucks). I watched a recess game a week before and it’s nuts. The huge wheelchairs block almost any view of the ball for all but those in the midst of the action. I can’t imagine how Jon will be able to pick this up visually, but he’s had two games so far. They lost the first one, no comment on the second. I’ll get some pictures, but I wanted to let him to get accustomed to the frenzy first.

Jon finished the first half of his Grade 3 reading course and he’s onto the second book. With each textbook in the series, the text gets a bit smaller, the leading (space between lines) a little tighter, the amount of text per page larger and larger. And Jon continues to read it at school without any magnification help from his CCTV! He’s starting to flow whole lines together. It’s really nice. Vision comes and goes, but given that there there is a growing fluidity.

Another first: Jon wanted to try out an escalator the other day. So Laura took the elevator with an empty wheelchair while Jon and I took the escalator. I gave him a bit of quick coaching and on he went with a huge grin on his face. Then he insisted on going back down on the down escalator(harder, since I have to be behind to lift him, and he could span to reach the two handrails) and then back up again, even spontenously jumping at the top transition (I was holding him at that point). No wonder he thought that they’d be selling tickets for it!