Thinking outside the square

A small miricle happened in our family today, it seems a light switch has turned on somewhere inside my little boys brain.
It was just another day as I trudged up to the pre-school gates and dragged a screaming 2yr old up to the classroom to collect his brother, as I entered I was beckoned in by a rather excited looking pre-school teacher and ushered towards the back of a classroom where brightly painted self portraits of stick figure children hung pegged to a string running between the concrete walls. Right there, smack bang in the middle there hung a slightly different picture, not of a child not of a dog and shining sun, but of a word. The word was painted in bright colours and ran several times along the sheet of paper, it unmistakably read “JAIDEN”.
This little boy who yesterday could not copy an X could suddenly form every one of the individual letters that make up his name with perfect accuracy.
I gasped and held back tears, “All by himself!” said the pre-school teacher with a huge grin, she told me she had asked them to paint a picture of themselves and Jaiden painted his name! Jai came over and pointed to his masterpiece and said proudly “That’s a picture of ME!”
It certainly is Jai, it certainly is.