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Noah Update

Last week, Noah opened the childproofed cabinets in the kitchen. It was no fluke - he closed it after the first time, and then deliberately repeated his action. So we have disabled those and instructed him not to open those cabinets (he is obeying so far.) These are the... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 18, 2008, 4:03 pm
Category: Noah

House Search

As some of you know, we have been looking for a house for the last couple of months, and we think we have found one! I asked a couple guys from church to come look at it today, and give their thoughts, and they generally approved. Someday, I'll probably make the kitchen nicer (ie.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 8, 2008, 8:23 pm
Category: General

Where Does The Time Go? (the numbers are even correct this time...)

Shortly after I posted the first analysis of my time , I realized that my hours per day calculation were kind of off, since I was counting 7 day weeks, and I basically never work on Sundays. As I am redoing the calculations, I see that I must have been doing something strange to try get... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 4, 2008, 11:58 am
Category: Reviews

Falling in a Lake, 18 (19 really) Month Appointment

On Sunday after church, we were driving around the area and went to the lake we visited in the summer. It was frozen over, people were ice fishing. We walked on carefully, telling Jonathan to stay near us and of the dangers of weak ice. We found an abandonded, yet fresh, ice... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 7, 2008, 5:21 pm
Category: Noah

Taxes

Whew... For some reason, taxes took longer than they have in other years. Part of the time was spent trying to get out of a federal tax penalty for not calculating the estimated taxes correctly. We spent 14.63 hours (courtesy of worklog ), mostly together working on them. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 7, 2008, 12:47 pm
Category: General

Forks, Thinking of Talking, Dictionary, How God Makes Little Girls

Noah likes to help set the table. When I ask him to put forks at the places, he will run to the drawer and grab a fistfull, then put a fork on top of each plate. I usually have to help him put away the extras, or they end up all over the place. He's also been copying words... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 2, 2008, 9:34 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah

One For All Universal Remote

One of my customers gave me an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, and so I bought a geeky toy for myself ( One for All URC 8910 Universal Remote Control ), and a book for Heather and I ( Teach Them Diligently: How To Use The Scriptures In Child Trainin g). I haven't opened the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 27, 2008, 12:05 am
Category: Reviews

Dictated Story by Jonathan

Growl. Arg, we're going to eat you up! Dogs, Aloo-ki! We're going to eat you up. Growl. Growl. Stomp. There's dogs [being] eating [eaten] up. The bears have eaten one dog. Dog, cats, they are fighting. Rocky, rocky is the monkey. The... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 23, 2008, 1:13 pm
Category: Jonathan

Subtraction, Reading, Memorization

Last night Jonathan was helping me set the table for dinner. He said we should get five plates, but I said no, Noah has his tray so he doesn't need a plate. But he could get five bowls for the chili, and five spoons. Then I said, "Make two of them big spoons."... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2008, 2:55 pm
Category: Jonathan

EETimes Subscription and Advertisers

I assume that the EETimes is paid by their advertisers based on how many active readers they have in certain categories, etc. Hopefully, the advertisers know that those numbers are inflated, since I think it took me a year of calling and emailing them to get them to stop mailing me the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 17, 2008, 10:52 am
Category: Reviews

Random Stuff

Just when I thought I was a geek, the bar is raised... I forgot to post this a while ago: Tim Hawkins and the "homeschool family". Prairie Home Sausage is kind of funny - and has a picture of a really neat merry-go-round. Lastly, being... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 7, 2008, 2:50 pm
Category: General

Christmas Present from Verizon

For some reason, Verizon thought it would be a good idea to reconfigure their network early morning Christmas Eve (or late the night before, I am not sure which). Unfortunately, they transferred me to a broken gateway, which has 3 minutes outages every fifteen minutes or so.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 26, 2007, 11:47 am
Category: Internet

Jonathan In A Day

Yesterday, Jonathan did and said several things of note. He counted to 100 all by himself! (He still has to think really hard and is not consistent yet, but he did it once.) He asked how to spell "tub" and "bath" and then said,... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 24, 2007, 9:51 am
Category: Jonathan

Spelling, Counting, Play and More

11/28 - Sanda has been teaching us Romanian, and one day Jonathan was asking what various random words were. We thought he said, "walk" and Sanda hesitated because it's a verb, so when she asked him to clarify (I walk, you walk, she walks?) he said, "No! Not 'walk' with a... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 12, 2007, 2:20 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Do Not Call Lists

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately. I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for our state and for the country. We are supposed to get $100 for each violation (where the caller pays $1000). But, I haven't ever gotten any money.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 10, 2007, 4:20 pm
Category: Reviews