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Play Trucks With Me!

Yes, Jonathan has now started to use personal pronouns correctly. He said the title phrase, and then when we were playing, he said, "Jonathan bulldozer, you backhoe." He's still not consistent, but he's starting to figure it out! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on October 5, 2005, 2:45 pm | Read 2320 times | Comments (3)
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The United States

Jonathan got out the large United States puzzle yesterday and had fun playing with the pieces. He would pick up one and I'd tell him what it was. Then he dumped the whole thing out and he would try to put them in. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on October 2, 2005, 4:02 pm | Read 2428 times | Comments (2)
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For Aunt Pami

On Thursday as we were going about our day, Jonathan looked up from his play and said, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!"

Posted by Heather Daley on October 2, 2005, 4:00 pm | Read 2423 times | Comments (1)
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Heather and Jonathan in Florida

You can check Linda's blog for updates on Jonathan this week.

Posted by Jon Daley on September 26, 2005, 2:58 pm | Read 2355 times | Comments (0)
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Songs, Shoes, Books, and Packages

On Tuesday, I just randomly started singing "All Around the Mulberry Bush" without really thinking about it. When I finished, Jonathan said in a singy voice, "monkey, weasel, monkey, weasel!" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on September 15, 2005, 2:01 pm | Read 2212 times | Comments (1)
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Counting and Stairs

Saturday, Jonathan started counting to 4 consisently and then went up to 6 a few times. Now he consistently counts to 6, and if you say 7 he will then say, 8,9 and sometimes 10. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on September 13, 2005, 1:16 pm | Read 2358 times | Comments (0)
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Scrapes, Bruises, and Using Real Language to Talk to Children

In addition to not using baby talk (Would my wittle Jonafan wike a nice kissy-poo?) it is a good idea to go even further and not use baby slang. Here is a personal example of how Jonathan learned the correct words instead of a word he would have to grow out of someday. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on September 9, 2005, 10:19 am | Read 2248 times | Comments (1)
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It's A Snap!

Jonathan has tried before, unsuccessfully, to fasten the snaps on his onesies. Part of the reason it's hard is that the more he bends over to concentrate, the more his back pulls on the back part, the tighter the snap is - if he tried to adjust his grip, he usually dropped it. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on September 7, 2005, 1:01 pm | Read 2477 times | Comments (0)
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More Words

While it is impossible to keep up with all of the new words Jonathan can say, there are interesting stories every once in a while (how "interesting" is measured is probably different among the different readers of this blog) and so I like to share them. Also, I realized that sometimes we say he can say things when really only we can tell what he means, so in this post, I will write in quotes what he actually says. (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on September 5, 2005, 9:26 pm | Read 3485 times | Comments (1)
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Dr.Seuss

Jonathan has fallen in love with Dr.Seuss. He will quote from the books while we are doing other things, and laugh - "Pat, cat, No, that!" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on August 31, 2005, 11:47 am | Read 8310 times | Comments (2)
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Mine and Share

Although he still says "hold you" when he means "hold me," Jonathan is starting to figure out the me-you-mine-yours thing. He will now say "mine socks" or "mine shoes." (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on August 31, 2005, 11:38 am | Read 3793 times | Comments (0)
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Putting Words Together

Jonathan is great at couplets now, for example, "yellow button" "dry diaper" "one hand." He is also increasing his use of complete sentences. One thing he said yesterday was "Yes please, Daddy" which is the first time ever that he has said all three in a row like that for a request.

Posted by Heather Daley on August 29, 2005, 5:31 pm | Read 2229 times | Comments (0)
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Word Association

Jonathan was playing with Heather's hair band, and was calling it a bandand, his word for rubber band, (close to his word for baid-aid: bandane) (More)

Posted by Jon Daley on August 27, 2005, 5:00 pm | Read 2334 times | Comments (2)
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Butterflies, Japan

Jonathan now identifies two of his butterfly bits by name: "morpho" for brown morpho and "lady" for painted lady. By the way, I always type his words the way he means them, but often they are not exactly like that. For example, these two words actually sound like "my-foh" and "yay-dee." He has been working on his l's though, because sometimes he says a very good "lap." (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on August 18, 2005, 4:52 pm | Read 2187 times | Comments (1)
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Tiptoes, Gate, Zero

On Tuesday, Jonathan discovered how to stand on tiptoes, and he thought it was great fun and asked me to "Watch!" him and share in his joy. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on August 18, 2005, 8:19 am | Read 2345 times | Comments (3)
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