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!