Clue!!

First off, I should tell you that Andrew doesn't talk . . . I may have already mentioned that. He has a vocabulary of less than a dozen words, and many of them exist but not in the proper context. He's getting better, but we're talking tremendously limited here. Most of his words are repetition words. An example is "Andrew, get your shoes" and he says "shoes", but if you point to his shoes and ask him what those are, he just looks confused and walks away.

Now to the fun part! At daycare apparently they watch "Blues Clues". I had no idea about this until the day after Andrew's first meeting with the Special Ed Department at the school. Andrew found a Blues Clues book, and pointed at the little blue "clue" up in the corner and announced (to no one in particular) "Clue!". And on he went with what he was doing. This in and of itself surprised me.

But the school here in town has for its mascot a Tiger. And because of that, all over town you can find evidence of this in the orange and black paw prints that are scattered throughout, especially at the school. So we were leaving the school that afternoon and my son was gleefully walking down the sidewalk toward the car, going from paw print to paw print. The paw prints were facing into the school, so he would reach each pawprint and run to the far side of it, look at it with a huge smile on his face and announce in a bright, happy voice "CLUE!". Then he was off to find the next one. Needless to say, getting to the car was not only easy, it was sheer enjoyment for Andrew.

I think he's going to like the school!