Tractor, plow, farm, papa chicken, rooster, cockadoodle-doo, push, pull, red-stop, green-go, siren, big, small, red, blue, yellow, green, purple, black, white, circle, piece, turn….
The words are just exploding and they have started to come in pairs ” bucket water more” “Mamma door” “Book read”. Places have significance. Mention library and he says “book!”. He recognizes letters as a concept though everything is called C. He counts to three and can fill in to 6 or 7, but I am not certain that he understands the concept of set. Maybe. He knows at least 6 colors with 80% accuracy. Yellow is his default. If he is trying to express the concept of color or he cant remember the name then its yellow.
We read. Palo the Train is the sacred text by which all other books are measured. Palo is a train on what appears to be a Turkish Island. Published in 1975, we have only a used copy picked up at a book sale. It is rapidly showing age. Potty books are a favorite topic and the tractor book. The Tool Box is a simple book that is rapidly teaching Alon the names of common tools. Tractors and other large or unusual vehicles are of great interest. Alon absorbs entire taxonomies of names. He knows the difference between wheels and crawler tracks, a plow and front loader, a nail and a screw.
He says, “oo-la-la”.



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