Charlie the Builder

Charlie has really grown in a lot of his skills since we started therapy about a year ago.  He became a skilled bike rider, developed his musical ability on the piano, started reading, got better control of a pencil, and... started excelling in lego building.

One night I noticed there was a growing collection on Charlie's dresser, and I asked him if I could take a picture.  Andy and I had both worked with him multiple times on how to follow the picture instructions to assemble legos.  Honestly, he just didn't seem to get it... but he always had fun watching us build, and also created some great structures all on his own.

But, we went from incapability to a sudden ability.  He just figured it out on his own.  He went from us trying to explain what pictures were showing until we were so frustrated that we would just give up... to magically understanding them and not requesting an iota of help.  Things like this started popping up everywhere.

That's Charlie.  I've learned a lot about him in the past few years.  But the most important thing I have learned is that Charlie is very, very capable.  That when he is ready, he can do just about anything he wants to do.  I like the surprise of it all and constantly wait to see what skill he will suddenly pick up next!