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June 28, 6:02pm. 10 lb. 3 oz. 22.5" long, 15" head, 15" chest. This is the quick post. The birth story is coming soon (really! it's actually all written on paper, just needs to be typed.) Sorry for the delay, we've had internet problems, but Jon has it all fixed now. (More)

Posted by joyful on June 30, 2006, 4:48 pm
Category: Pregnancy, Noah

First Sailing Adventure, 2006

Sunday, May 21st, on the way home from church, we saw what a gorgeous day it was and we wanted to go for a sail. We ate a quick lunch and then I took a nap while Jon and Jonathan prepared a picnic dinner and got the boat ready. We were all ready at the same time, and we headed off to the river.... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 26, 2006, 8:45 pm
Category: General

Grammar, Tricycle, Foreign Languages, Pens, Sun

5/16 - "That was a lot of running. Now I need some breath." 5/17 - "I leaved... I leaved... I left it a little bit open." Whenever someone says that he is a big boy, Jonathan says, "No, I'm not a big boy, I'm a little boy!" Specific instances include talking about the little bed that is... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 24, 2006, 6:15 pm
Category: Jonathan

More Independence, Thinking, Talking

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 (Daley)

( Originally read on the phone, Mother's Day, 2006 ) Dear Mom, I want to say some things to you and I thought it would be easier to write them in a letter because I am not very good with words and after all those years of getting me to write thank you notes, you know how hard it is for me... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 14, 2006, 7:34 pm
Category: Reviews

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

Prayer

On Sunday we were singing "Forever God is Faithful, Forever God is strong, Forever God is with us, Forever." This is "Samuel's Song" for me - the song that rang through my head all day long when Sam K. was born. It reminded me of all the prayer that went up for his birth, and God's faithfulness... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 10, 2006, 11:44 am
Category: Pregnancy

Dean Kamen Quote

I read an interview of Dean Kamen recently. I first heard of him when he was demoing his Segway invention around the mall in our very own Concord (I don't know if I will ever be a Pittsburgher - still feel like a New Hampshirite), or possibly for USFirst , but he has been around a while - I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 10, 2006, 11:35 am
Category: Reviews

The Christmas Tree Survives!

Our first attempt at keeping a live Christmas tree live was a dismal failure, for two main reasons. One, we didn't take it down until April or some other such long time. Two, I misunderstood the instructions about misting the tree. What you are supposed to do is mist the branches to keep them... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 4, 2006, 2:32 pm
Category: General

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

Family Bed

After two and a half years of sleeping in a family bed, it is surely ingrained in me. When our friends' daughter needed to spend the night with us when her baby brother was being born, I couldn't bear the thought of putting her in another room. She even has her own room at home. But I... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 2, 2006, 8:41 am
Category: General, 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

Counting Trampoline, Pumping Swings, Running

On Friday, we all had fun on the Kuhns' new indoor trampoline. I showed Will how we used to count while jumping, and he jumped and counted (by ones) all the way to 100. He did not make himself start over if he missed a jump, he just kept jumping until he remembered the next number. But Alissa... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 19, 2006, 9:35 am
Category: Jonathan

Breakfast

I was working on the computer this morning, so Heather and Jonathan made it downstairs before I did. Jonathan asked Heather if he could make breakfast (eggs, since it is Saturday), and Heather said that he wasn't ready to do it by himself, and do it with Daddy.When I got downstairs, he asked me,... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 15, 2006, 10:59 am
Category: Jonathan