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Powered by LifeType11/2 - Jeremiah, "Aunt Prudence gave us this one." perfect grammar
11/3 - Jonathan, "Mom, did you know that if you take the 'c' out of 'record' and add 'er' at the end, it becomes 'reorder'?"
11/3 - Jeremiah, walking backwards with finger in front of his face, "Me try to pick [scab], but me go 'way."
11/3 - Nathaniel recognizes his name. Jeremiah calls from the other room, "Nan-el!". He turns and crawls to Jeremiah.
11/3 - Nathaniel says, "Guh-guh-guh"
11/5 - NPD sticks his hand in oatmeal fresh from microwave. I rushed him to the sink for cold water right away, but blisters still formed in between fingers and on his wrist.
11/5 - NPD upper left 2nd incisor
Noah's favorite hobby - opening presents (More)
9/2 - NPD definitely pulling up (on bathtub) - see Mom's post of Maggie P.
9/2 - NPD, "ma-ma-ma" "na-na-na" JDD is convinced it means "Mom"
9/2 - Joy, "2+3 is 5. [pause] I learned that in bed." Subsequently also taughtherself other addition facts.
9/2 - Joy making bracelet with paper and tape. She pointed out to me, "I made the tape not so it would hurt you." She had made sure to place the sticky side facing away from the skin!
9/3 - Joy and JPD get their own bath.
9/4 - Joy figured out 2+4=6 at breakfast.
9/6 - JPD, "I doved under water, no." (Means "I didn't dive underwater.")
9/8 - Me, "Tomorrow, NPD has a dr appt." JPD, ruefully remembering the doctor's office, "Lady poked me." Me,"Yes. Yes, she did." JPD, "Why?"
9/9 - Our kids like to count how many American flags they see on the way to karate (and other destinations.) Joy, " 'Merican flag!". JPD, "Merry gag!" (More)
7/6 - Noah is building a paperboard New England village.
7/6 - Jeremiah opened the cupboard under the kitchen sink with the TotLok. He was so proud of himself. "There we go. Open!" (sounds like "deh-do. Opih!") He closed it and opened it several times, each time repeating his words with delight. The very first thing he did with his newly opened cupboard was to take out the dishwasher detergent, squeeze the correct amounts into the two cups in the dishwasher door, close the little detergent door, and put the detergent back in the cupboard. I'm sure he would have also started the dishwasher had I not been there to tell him it wasn't full enough yet.
7/7 - Nathaniel was doing pushups (hands and toes only on the ground) and Joy was counting them. At one point, she said, "Six! You just have four more to go!" And that session, he did twelve total (but that was, of course, after he got to her expected ten first.)
7/13 - Jeremiah had on the Jango Fett helmet and Nathaniel was getting worried. But then Jeremiah lifted the helmet and said, "Me, Nan'el!" and he was happy again.
7/21 – Joy, holding NPD, “You are my best sweetie ever.”
7/29 – JPD, “Open this door, please.”
7/31 – brass/organ hymn CD in car. Ryan, “It's like Grammy's church, but in the car!”
7/31 – same trip. Ryan, “Look! A wooden table in the middle of nowhere!” Joy, “My Dad goes there!” (No. Weare)
JPD answered how old he is correctly, at Shaw's before NY trip – and many times since.
On our Daley vacation in the Finger Lakes in New York, there was this great old-fashioned playground with merry-go-rounds, a big tall slide, and metal jungle gyms. It was great fun!
8/8 – Joy wants to marry NPD
8/15 - living history event in Hillsboro (not sure what I was going to say about this except that we went to it)
8/1 – NPD roll back to front, maybe the day before also
8/1 – JPD potty training day
8/7 – NPD on back, with soccerball. Dropped to right, rolled over to reach it.
NPD sitting if propped
8/18 - NPD crawl to sit
8/30 - Jeremiah was interested as usual when it was time to take communion at church. I explained a little, and his reaction was very similar to the disciples' in Jesus' day: "Eat body, gucky." "Eat blood, gucky."
5/6 - Jonathan is as tall as Mom!
5/7 - Faith, "Ramen numerals"
5/8 - Jeremiah, "Don't touch it." I think that's his first three word phrase.
5/9 - Jeremiah was looking at the New Bible Dictionary that has a painting of the last supper (or something like it - Jesus in the middle with a few disciples around him). I think it was rather in the syle of Rembrandt, with lots of browns and off-whites, with Jesus a bit brighter. He pointed at Jesus and said, "Scary" (sounds like geh-wy".) I never had really looked closely, but it did make him look kind of freaky...
5/9 - The girls and I went to our church's Mother-Daughter banquet. Afterwards, Joy said, "At church, I dreamed about hearts and ribbons and flowers." I replied, "How did you dream if you were awake? Were they daydreams?" She answered, very confident and matter-of-fact, "I have dreams *all* thetime."
5/18 - Joy counted to 100, only needing a prompt at 50.
5/20 - Noah said, "assumination" when he meant "assumption".
5/21 - Joy counted the odd numbers to 99.
5/25 - Joy counted the evens to 100.
5/27 - Jonathan followed the Betty Crocker biscuit recipe on his own. He mistook "shortening" for "thickening" so he used a cup of cornstarch instead of butter. The biscuits turned out surprisingly edible.
May - Jeremiah says "mung" for gum. Also, "now" for down. Other words I can't recall at the moment he also pronounces backwards.
5/28 - Amazing baby Nathaniel sleeps 8.5 hours. He consistently sleeps 6-7 hours at night. Thisis such a blessing for me.
5/28 - Jonathan likes to exclaim with an "evil" laugh. Jeremiah this time copied him, "Mwa-ha-ha-ha..." very cute.
5/29 - Jeremiah is starting to initiate going on the potty.
6/3 - Nathaniel can kick himself forward a few inches (on his belly and on his back.)
6/4 - Jeremiah recognized and named a circle.
6/4 - Nathaniel's first solid food. Jeremiah fed him some tortilla chips. Thankfully, Faith observed and called me right away. Nathaniel's gag reflex did its job and I got it out before he really choked.
6/5 - Nathaniel rolled from front to back. The first time startled him and he cried.
6/5 - Jon went to the station to do his shift chores. Faith, Joy, and Jeremiah went by themselves after him to help. They came back the first time, Faith unsure of which direction to turn at a particular cross-street. The second time, they made it successfully. And Jeremiah kept his promise to hold Faith's hand the entire time.
June - Jeremiah likes to pick flowers for me, and he always lets me know that they are from "my yard". (Because we are not allowed to pick flowers from other peoples' yards.)
6/9 - Joy washed the kitchen windows on her own initiative. She started with water, and then I showed her the window cleaner and squeegee, and she did a nice job on the windows she could reach (lower panel).
6/19 - Jonathan and Noah have a discussion with Dad-o about geography and time zones, latitude and noon.
6/20 - Faith transposed Journey By Camel from C to G. This included accidentals.
6/20 - Jeremiah counted, "one, doo, wee, doh"
Jeremiah says "way-way" to mean "this way" or "that way" or "the right way" etc.
6/20 - Jeremiah had a 12-inch ruler and went around measuring all sorts of things. Each time, he would exclaim, "Inches!"
Nathaniel has said "Hi!" several times in the right context. One time in the morning he said what sounded exactly like, "Please."
6/29 - Jeremiah climbed to the top bunk unassisted.
6/30 - Jeremiah climbed down from the top bunk unassisted.
Jeremiah consistently identifies the color blue correctly.