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Our family had been emailing around about the wind and rain from a recent storm, the power outages, and water in our basement, and a couple questions came up, and I thought I would post them here, that perhaps other people are interested in the goings on at our new house. 40% (18,000)... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 17, 2008, 9:03 am
Category: General, Reviews

40 Weeks

Had a midwife appointment today. All stats are good, baby seems to be about 8 1/2 lbs (tall and skinny, the midwife thinks.) (S)he is a bit turned posterior at the moment, but I am not too concerned because it's not very much, and as long as Mommy gets to be in whatever position she feels... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 3, 2008, 6:27 pm
Category: Pregnancy

Waiting, Quotes

I have to say that the real baby is much more squashed in me than that little graphic baby is on the sidebar. (S)he pokes up knees and heels all the time and increasingly presses on my bladder. I am ready to go, but still have plenty of things I can do while waiting. When Mom and Janet... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 24, 2008, 8:49 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Pregnancy, Noah

Hot Water Recirculator is a Waste of Money

Our new house has fairly long hot water lines to the kitchen and bathroom, so I was looking for different solutions to getting there to be hot water quicker. I researched some tankless heaters, and for the kitchen and washing machine (on one trunk) a small heater (12 amps) would have worked... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 19, 2008, 1:34 pm
Category: Reviews

New House, Cleaning, Fixing

Yes, we have a new house! The closing was a little hectic because the seller left a van in the driveway and we had to work out an escrow agreement for them to get rid of it (which still had not been done by last night.) Right after closing, we headed up to do work. We have had... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 3, 2008, 6:24 am
Category: General, Jonathan

32 Weeks

We went to our 32 week appointment today and the office was much busier than when we've come before. The baby moved vigorously during the exam and the midwife had a hard time hearing his heartbeat. The first time, he obviously moved away from where she had the fetoscope; on the next try, I... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 9, 2008, 7:39 pm
Category: Pregnancy

SSH Login Attempts

I think I have written before about DenyHosts , but this evening, it prevented somewhere around twenty thousand individual hosts trying to login to one of my servers. The hackers have gotten smarter - that they used to just try from one host, which was trivially blockable, even manually.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on July 8, 2008, 11:40 pm
Category: Programming, Reviews

Fourth Time's the Charm?

I had delayed posting this since I think people were getting tired of hearing about each house that we put an offer on. But, now that this offer has been accepted, and I don't expect too much trouble with the inspections, I figure it is safe enough to post.I said to a friend the other day,... (More)

Posted by jondaley on July 8, 2008, 1:29 pm
Category: Reviews

Birthday Celebrations

After breakfast on Noah's birthday, we went to the dollar store to buy him some balloons. Jonathan thought Noah shouldn't come, because it would spoil the surprise, but I said that since Noah likes to go on walks, he'd have a happier birthday if he came with us. And what's another 10... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 1, 2008, 2:05 pm
Category: General, Noah

Someday I'll Just Stay Home and Eat Bonbons

On Wednesday, we walked to the Shursave for a regular shopping trip. The only difference in this trip was the lack of milk in the bottom of the cart, since I had just gotten some at Trader Joe's. But it made a big difference for Jonathan! He pulled the cart the whole way home by himself,... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 27, 2008, 7:42 am
Category: Jonathan

Toll Booths

Jonathan enjoys blocking a doorway and demanding, "Three thousand dollars!" or some such amount. Sometimes he'll block every doorway from the laundry to the bedroom, charging an exorbitant amount of money every time. If there are any complaints, he always says, "Don't worry, it's just... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 19, 2008, 10:25 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Conversations With Jonathan

I forgot to write this down before; Jonathan can now spell "Jonathan Daley" all by himself. He used to get stuck after "Jon." He read a book of jokes the other day, and he thought they were hilarious. But he doesn't quite get the concept of "crossing" two things. Jonathan's version:... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 19, 2008, 10:14 am
Category: Jonathan

28 Weeks

My glucose came back fine and so did the iron. The fundal height is only slightly big - I'm hoping this is a positive indication of not as big a baby as Noah! Also, praise God, this little guy is already head down. Thanks for your prayers on all of those things. After this we're going... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 10, 2008, 3:10 pm
Category: Pregnancy

Multi Update

Noah now has many more words that I can write down. They are still mostly only understood by me and Jonathan, but he's using his mouth to communicate. Most words have only the initial consonant and vowel sound (moo for "moose") and some have only part of the word (mo' for "remote") so much... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 7, 2008, 7:23 am
Category: Noah

Connect the Dots

Jonathan got a couple of connect the dots books for Christmas and has recently taken off with them. He can easily do the ones that go up to 25, and I made him a homemade one that went to 40. He likes to make his own and have me or Jon fill them out. Usually he does not label the dots with... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 26, 2008, 8:18 pm
Category: Jonathan