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On Monday, Jonathan said what sounded like "van-fan" so I tried to figure out what he meant. He pointed to the shelf and said it again, maybe differently. I looked up, and there were the bits - works of Rembrandt! I said, "Rembrandt?" And he said, "yes, Rembrandt!" (or a close approximation.) It had been a while since he saw them so I was quite impressed that he remembered. After we saw the bits, he asked for the word cards behind them by saying, very clearly, "words." (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on August 5, 2005, 9:48 pm | Read 1975 times | Comments (0)
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Do Not Be Jealous

All this talk about Aunt Janet might get Auntie E a little jealous, so I thought I'd let everyone know that Jonathan now calls all dogs Toby and he does recall Auntie E's name when he's remembering the vacation.

Posted by Heather Daley on July 30, 2005, 7:23 pm | Read 2059 times | Comments (0)
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Family Resemblance

This morning Jonathan and I were looking at a photo album from when I was a baby. One of the pictures was of Mom and me sitting on a bed at the Maggie P. Jonathan pointed at Mom and said, "Aunt Janet!"

Posted by Heather Daley on July 30, 2005, 7:21 pm | Read 1791 times | Comments (0)
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He Has A Good Memory

As I was changing a diaper, I thought I heard Jonathan say "eechee", so I said, "eechee, nee, san" (which is my own personal spelling of the sounds of the Japanese for one, two, three.) Then Jonathan said, "Aunt Janet! Jump. [giggles] Eechee, san. Aunt Janet!" He was recalling the fun time he had with Janet learning Japanese on Alex's trampoline.

Posted by Heather Daley on July 30, 2005, 7:15 pm | Read 1898 times | Comments (1)
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Breastfeeding Encouragement

For the first time ever, today a stranger assumed that Jonathan is breastfed. We were walking home from the store and an older lady said, "You must have a lot of milk, and he must drink it all!" It was refreshing to hear that after many comments like "what do you feed him?" and "he doesn't skimp on bottles, does he?"
On a related note, I have only gotten one comment about him being an older breastfed child and it was just one of interest from a ten year old friend at church, "He still breastfeeds?" and then a simple "oh" when I replied in the affirmative.

Posted by Heather Daley on July 29, 2005, 12:08 pm | Read 2254 times | Comments (0)
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Remembering

Every day so far since we've been home, Jonathan has remembered out loud the fun he had on vacation. He says, "Water, deep. Sand! Boat. Beach. Water, shovel, water, deep! Uncle Jay, Aunt Prudence, Aunt Janet, Dad-o, Uncle Jay, Just Jay [one in NH who is not Uncle Jay], Dad-o, water, boat, Grandma, Grammy, sand! Uncle Jay, Aunt Janet, water, deep!"

Posted by Heather Daley on July 28, 2005, 12:52 pm | Read 1993 times | Comments (0)
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Jonathan Highlights

Colors - just before we left for vacation, Jonathan and I were sitting on our tshirt quilt. I pointed out a yellow sun, and he repeated me. Then he pointed to another yellow sun and named it, then to a blue shirt and said "blue", to a green shirt and said "green" and finally to a black shirt and said "black"!

Once on vacation, our cousins reinforced his color knowledge with Grandma's colored "asterisks" and now Jonathan knows and can say all the basic colors plus pink, black and white. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on July 28, 2005, 7:52 am | Read 4584 times | Comments (2)
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Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?

Jonathan was reading it to himself while I changed his diaper, and he said the sounds for most of the pages in addition to saying "Brown" and "raining." His favorites are "knock, knock" and "boom, boom, boom!" When he got to the end, he looked at the back cover and said, "house." Sure enough, there was the Random House logo. I did not know that he knew that!

Posted by Heather Daley on July 6, 2005, 1:29 pm | Read 2269 times | Comments (0)
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Water Play

Jonathan and I were taking a bath this morning when he stuck his face in the water and blew bubbles, his own idea! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on July 6, 2005, 1:29 pm | Read 2348 times | Comments (0)
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New Skills and Lots of Fun

On Saturday evening we were at a reception for a friend's baptism and Jonathan and I headed outside for some play. It was dusk and the fireflies started appearing. I caught some to show Jonathan and he loved them. Then to my surprise, he said, "I got it, firefly!" and sure enough, he had caught one!! It was a nice gentle catch - he just held his open palm up and swept under the firefly until it landed on him. How many fireflies survive the experience of being a child's first catch? (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on July 5, 2005, 1:47 pm | Read 2281 times | Comments (0)
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Fun Times

One day for dinner I prepared a noodle dish from a toddler-friendly cookbook that was "toddler rated 10 out of 10." I also made asparagus as a side dish. Jonathan loves asparagus and helped me taste test it as I was preparing it. Then at dinner we had to tell him that he had to eat a couple more bites of noodles before he could have more asparagus!! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on July 2, 2005, 3:39 pm | Read 2548 times | Comments (4)
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Break's Over, Mom!

I have not been consistent with the bits recently, but this morning, Jonathan let me know that it's time to get with the program! When he woke up, he sat straight up, pointed at them and said, "This!" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on June 24, 2005, 2:08 pm | Read 2132 times | Comments (1)
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Counting Fingers

On Wednesday, Jonathan counted his fingers on his own initiative - he held each one and said, "one, two" "one, two" "one, two..." It was very cute.

Posted by Heather Daley on June 24, 2005, 2:05 pm | Read 2075 times | Comments (0)
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Catch Up

With visitors and camping, I have not been as faithful in recording Jonathan's growth as I'd like. But here are some recent things. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on June 21, 2005, 1:54 pm | Read 2701 times | Comments (1)
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Identifying Bits

Jonathan likes to open the drawer where I store the Bits and take out some to look at. In order to make this an acceptable activity, I have put the retired ones in front and hidden the unseen ones in back, separated by empty file folders. This way, he is free to explore and look at, take out and put in, without messing up my organization. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on June 10, 2005, 3:01 pm | Read 2002 times | Comments (0)
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