Daley Ponderings | Jonathan

More Independence, Thinking, Talking

At church on May 7, Jonathan washed his hands in the bathroom completely independently for the first time - turning on the water, reaching the sink, reaching the soap, turning off the water, drying his hands. I offered to lift him up as usual, but he said, "I can do it!" And he did! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 15, 2006, 11:25 am | Read 1940 times | Comments (0)
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Cheerios in Milk

I have discovered that Jonathan likes his Cheerios in milk if they don't have time to get soggy. So now we have two bowls at breakfast - one for dry Cheerios and one for milk. Then he puts a few in the milk at at time and eats them with his spoon. He gets a lot of milk that way, too. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 12:20 pm | Read 3019 times | Comments (2)
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Father/Son Day

On Sunday, I went to a baby shower and Jon and Jonathan went out to lunch with our pastoral intern. Then they took me home so I could get a nap, and headed out to the annual Texas Independence Day party at the Regans'. (TID is really in March, but the party was delayed.) (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 11:51 am | Read 2520 times | Comments (0)
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Pouring, Questions and Answers

Jonathan can be very good at pouring things if he is careful. He can pour just the right amount of juice into a glass, he can pour just the right amount of cereal into a bowl. Sometimes he gets excited, especially to look around to make sure we're watching him, and that often leads to trouble. But if he concentrates, he does excellently! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 4, 2006, 2:21 pm | Read 2008 times | Comments (0)
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Fruit and States

On our flight to Boston, I made sure we had plenty of snacks. Jonathan was eating a fruit leather when he held it up and exclaimed, "Looks like Nebraska!" It really did! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 3, 2006, 4:33 pm | Read 2003 times | Comments (3)
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Family Bed

After two and a half years of sleeping in a family bed, it is surely ingrained in me. When our friends' daughter needed to spend the night with us when her baby brother was being born, I couldn't bear the thought of putting her in another room. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on May 2, 2006, 8:41 am | Read 2333 times | Comments (1)
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Making Breakfast AKA Jonathan's First Post

Italics are what I (Jon) said during the dictation, though I missed a lot, and didn't type in some of Jonathan's repeated sentences.

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Posted by Jon Daley on April 29, 2006, 8:51 am | Read 1884 times | Comments (2)
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Counting Trampoline, Pumping Swings, Running

On Friday, we all had fun on the Kuhns' new indoor trampoline. I showed Will how we used to count while jumping, and he jumped and counted (by ones) all the way to 100. He did not make himself start over if he missed a jump, he just kept jumping until he remembered the next number. But Alissa thought it might have been the first time he counted all the way to 100 without skipping any numbers. Then he went by 100's to a thousand. He originally wanted to go to two thousand but he was tired and someone else wanted to jump. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 19, 2006, 9:35 am | Read 3380 times | Comments (1)
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Little Ears Listening All The Time

Thursday morning at breakfast, Jonathan said to me, "Maybe you should try vibrating your two glasses. I'm vibrating mine!" as he tapped gently on his orange juice glass with his spoon. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 16, 2006, 9:52 pm | Read 2129 times | Comments (2)
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Breakfast

I was working on the computer this morning, so Heather and Jonathan made it downstairs before I did. Jonathan asked Heather if he could make breakfast (eggs, since it is Saturday), and Heather said that he wasn't ready to do it by himself, and do it with Daddy. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on April 15, 2006, 10:59 am | Read 2437 times | Comments (4)
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Common Recent Sayings, Hiccups

Jonathan now has an imaginary friend. Her name is "Su-su" or "Soot-soot" or some combination/permutation of those sounds. She has a big house (not a small one) and she has toys there, usually three. We like to go to her house in the evenings if we aren't going somewhere else. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 13, 2006, 9:02 am | Read 22747 times | Comments (9)
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Getting Ready to be a Big Brother

Jonathan has gone from complete non-understanding to maybe understanding but not caring, to really being excited about the baby. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 6, 2006, 2:51 pm | Read 2621 times | Comments (1)
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The Pa Game, Drawing

Recently, Jonathan has been drawing a lot. He likes markers best, but if I don't have enough energy for them (supervision - though he can now clean up the table himself when he gets some there which makes it easier on me) he will do crayons. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 5, 2006, 8:35 am | Read 2011 times | Comments (0)
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Favorite Bits

Jonathan's favorite bits recently are Fluorine, Estonia, Great Gray Owl. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on March 28, 2006, 8:03 am | Read 2466 times | Comments (6)
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Dreams

As Jonathan was waking up this morning, he said, "Look at my brown, Mommy." I asked him if he was dreaming about drawing a picture and he said yes. Then, he was looking all around, moving the pillow, looking under the sheets. "Where is my picture?" It was very hard to understand that it wasn't real, that it was only a dream. He asked about the picture for quite a while, until we got going on other morning activities.

Posted by Heather Daley on March 27, 2006, 10:28 am | Read 2199 times | Comments (0)
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