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What a difference a year makes

When I tell people that Evan's really only been talking for a year and a half, they're shocked. These days, he sounds more like a normal kid who is very social. He's also constantly surprising us with words he knows - just last week he was going on and on about the self-portrait he did at school. Here are two videos to show the amount of progess he's made in such a short time.

Here's Ev right around his 4th birthday.

Tough to understand, right? Jenny and I had the secret Evan Rosetta Stone, but only because we were with him 24 hours a day.

Here's Evan last week. Night and day.

At his kindergarten open house last week, the teacher was telling me they were doing their weekly reader and Ev read most of it, much to the surprise of his classmates. He's an excellent reader - I think because he did so much work from age 2 on that he'll be well prepared for school. With his two years of preschool, speech therapies, sessions in Pittsburgh, a TSS this past summer, and all the work we do with him at home, I think he's put in more effort then your average kindergarten student and it's really paid off. He's so much more social and often he's downright hilarious. It's been a long and hard journey, but he's done everything we've asked him to and then some.