Challenge Course

Xavier has done his two days at the challenge course for this month. He is loving it. His friend Mariah is also doing the challenge course so he has someone to buddy around with.
I rather like Mariah. We've known her most of her life so it's really nice for Xavier to have a friend like that. She's a year younger than Xavier so they will not be in school together next year and they are both sad.
According to Xavier, the challenge course was easy. I should probably ask Anna how he does. Xavier has a tendency to step away from the hard problem solving especially in a group setting. On his own, Xavier is always thinking about creative ways to do things. He's big on finding random objects for "projects". Most of the time he likes to take things apart and figure out how they work and go together. He's got some interesting imagination - he can connect with stuffed animals and action figures but not create things that are not there.
I know that at the Scout Challenge Course Xavier often wanted to hold back and not really participate. I think some of that has to do with his inability to really connect with the boys in that troop - we'll see how things go this fall with the new troop.
So many little things going on. I will try to remember to share all the things. I am going to start teaching Xavier to do "tapping" which is a therapy that has the person invision positive thinking while tapping on particular body parts. Rob and I took a class years ago and I recently found a book about it at the library.