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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! The... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 15, 2006, 11:25 am
Category: Jonathan

Thank You, Mom (Wightman)

On the GirlTalk blog , they've been posting tributes from daughters to mothers, and I thought I'd write one for my own mom. Dear Mom, Happy Mother's Day! Thank you for being such a great Mom and now Grandma. Here are the things I appreciate about you the most these days.... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 14, 2006, 7:33 pm
Category: Reviews

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! A recent set of bits Jonathan has seen is fruits and vegetables including: apple, baby corn, banana, broccoli, cabbage,... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 3, 2006, 4:33 pm
Category: Jonathan

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. Daddy went downstairs with me, and I went downstairs with me too. We didn't get three scrambled eggs, we got four. (We had a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 29, 2006, 8:51 am
Category: Jonathan

Hardest Sudoku Puzzle?

This is the hardest one I have ever worked on. [ Update 10/24/2006: thanks to you all reading this post and posting other links, I have since found more interesting ones -- look through the comments - the one posted on October 9th appears to be pretty hard, though maybe I just made a mistake on... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 28, 2006, 9:21 pm
Category: Reviews

Names

Don't ever name your child the same name as you. It confuses everyone, from doctors to insurance carriers to airlines. USAir and United won't let me check-in online any more, since it can't figure out what to do with Jonathan and me. We both have different frequent flyer numbers, but it is... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 20, 2006, 8:01 am
Category: Reviews

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. How does he know about vibrations of glasses? Certain family members should be able to guess! I didn't really... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 16, 2006, 9:52 pm
Category: Jonathan

Good Ol' Home Cooking

I'm so excited about last night's (almost) from scratch Mediterranean dinner success that I have to post! I have come a long way to where I got yesterday. First, when I made this dinner, I would make falafel from a mix, raita (which is actually an Indian name, but I know there's cucumber yogurt... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 9, 2006, 7:15 pm
Category: General

Spyware Removal

Found an interesting spyware/virus/malware/etc at the Quinlisks yesterday. It was a "Browser Helper Object (BHO)", a method of getting your own code put inside of the windows explorer, and thus pretty hard to remove.They run Ad-Aware every once in a while to clean up their computer,... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 8, 2006, 1:17 am
Category: Reviews

Verizon Credit Check

I got a notification from a credit bureau today saying that a new account had been opened by: Verizon Pen, PO BOX 165018, COLUMBUS, OH 43216. Since I haven't changed phone service since last year, it seemed odd that there would be a new account from Verizon.My mortgage company had their backup... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 31, 2006, 2:33 pm
Category: Reviews

SNMPD upgrade error

Since it took me a while to figure out the answer, I will post this here to try to help the next guy who has trouble when upgrade snmpd to 5.2.2. The rest of you won't care about this post. could not open /proc/net/if_inet6 cache has existing timer id. Error opening specified endpoint... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 29, 2006, 10:11 am
Category: Programming

Dis-Ability Quote

Colin Portnuff, a guy who uses an AAC (alternative augmentative communication) device to communicate, was recently at a conference that some guys from my company (DynaVox) also went to. He has ALS , which is a degenerative disease of the brain. A number of our customers have ALS; I am not... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 28, 2006, 1:27 pm
Category: Reviews

Jonathan's Birth Story

I wrote it out formally about a year ago but it never got onto the blog. So below is the story. I'll post a comment on Jonathan's first post with a link to this one. Jonathan's Gentle Birth by Heather Daley This is Jonathan's birth story, but to really appreciate it, the... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 24, 2006, 11:39 am
Category: Jonathan

The Fascinating Ever-Changing Properties of Breastmilk

A woman I know has been having breastfeeding troubles with her three month old. She firmly believes in the superiority of breastmilk and nursing, and so has persisted through the discouragement (implicit and from other people, including pediatrician) and is using a lactation supplementer instead... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 14, 2006, 4:47 pm
Category: General

Nerdy?

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Posted by jondaley on March 7, 2006, 9:04 am
Category: Internet