Luca is swimming. He loves going to swimming lesson. He likes it better than when he was younger. The same happened with basketball and soccer. I think as he gets older he is enjoying sports a bit more. Of course, I took my camera to the pool and while I watched him, I also took pictures of him and played around with my camera and its manual and, not that I quite know what I am doing, but hopefully, I am learning some.
Luca esta nadando. Le encantan las clases de natacion. Le gusta mas que cuando era mas pequenho. Lo mismo le paso con baloncesto y futbol. Creo que segun crece disfruta mas de los deportes. Por supuesto, me lleve mi camara a la piscina y mientras le veia, tambien tomaba fotos de el y jugaba con mi camara y con el manual, y no es que sepa lo que estoy haciendo, pero esperemos que aprenda algo poco a poco.
I captured a tiny jump accidentally in this picture. I like how it came out.
Le hice una foto pegando un saltito de casualidad. Me gusta como quedo.
I also got the conference about Luca's achievements this week. He is doing great, progressing nicely, he is at the level where he should be academically, and pretty much all of his goals have been reached. In terms of language he made a very nice progress and more is expected shortly, but the only thing that I was told that I didn't expect was that he has a little bit more trouble than most kids learning articulation.
Tambien tuve la reunion sobre los avances de Luca con las profesoras esta semana. Va muy bien, avanzando muy bien, esta al nivel que deberia estar academicamente, y casi todos sus metas han sido conseguidas. En cuanto al lenguaje ha progresado muy bien y esperamos que sea mayor aun en poco tiempo, pero lo unico que me dijeron que no me esperaba era que tiene mas problema de lo normal para aprender a articular.Apparently he has something, that makes him have some trouble getting long words or long sentences pronounced properly. He has trouble getting his brain to make the motor part of the mouth to work how it should. He used to mumble and not move his lips at all. And as the therapists were telling me all of this, it hit me, I had the same thing. When I was little I was like that, I had trouble pronouncing things, I thought I was being lazy...I even had low muscle tone all over my body and needed therapy and lots of exercise to grow out of it. And I did. It seems like Luca only has this problem in his mouth, related to speech (although that might also be the reason why he can't shoot the ball in basketball and why he hasn't been that crazy about sports). It will take him longer than others, it will take more work on his part and on mine, but we will overcome this one too.
Aparentemente tiene algo, que hace le cueste pronunciar las palabras largas adecuadamente. Tiene problemas con que su cerebro sea capaz de hacer que la parte motora de la boca funcione adecuadamente. Solia hablar sin mover los labios. Y mientras las logopedas me contaban todo esto, me di cuenta, que yo tenia lo mismo. Cuando yo era pequenha, tenia problema pronunciando las cosas, pensaba que era perezosa...incluso tenia flacidez muscular en todo mi cuerpo y necesitaba terapia y mucho ejercicio para superarlo. Y lo hice. Parece que a Luca solo le afecta al habla, a la articulacion (aunque quizas por eso tampoco puede tirar la pelota a la canasta en baloncesto y no le han emocionado mucho los deportes). Le va a costar mas que a otros, va a necesitar ms trabajo que otros ninhos y por mi parte tambien, pero esto tambien lo superaremos.
