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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... (More)
Posted by joyful on July 5, 2005, 1:47 pm
Category: Jonathan
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)
Posted by joyful on July 2, 2005, 3:39 pm
Category: Jonathan
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... (More)
Posted by joyful on June 10, 2005, 3:01 pm
Category: Jonathan
20 Questions?
A co-worker purchased this game which is kind of fun, and I found the Darth Vader version on Yishan's blog . (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2005, 12:11 pm
Category: Internet
Email Random Signature Generation
I wrote a random signature generator for Pine, my email client. It worked great for a number of years, but with a recent upgrade of Pine, it started having trouble a couple of times a day, where the signature would be correctly rotated, but Pine would hang prior to sending the message, and would... (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2005, 8:34 am
Category: Programming
Zoo and Other Adventures
On April 27, we went to the Zoo with Alissa, Will, Nate, and Sam. I sang to Jonathan the "We're going to the zoo" song and he repeated, "zoo, zoo, zoo!" He also repeated "cheetah" but he growled at the bears on his own. The elephants were much larger in real life than he expected and he didn't... (More)
Posted by joyful on May 5, 2005, 10:37 am
Category: Jonathan
Extra Life
In the Electronic Engineering Times this week: The skills needed to defeat Bowser are similar to those required of laparoscopic surgeons, contends Dr. James Rosser, developer of a videogame for surgical trainees."There is, indeed, a positive correlation between videogaming and increased hand-eye... (More)
Posted by jondaley on May 3, 2005, 10:00 am
Category: Reviews
Daddy
On Saturday while we were hanging around on CMU campus for Carnival, Jonathan signed "Daddy." We were at the top of the hill by the tennis courts, talking to a friend, and our kids were playing down at the bottom of the hill. I saw Jonathan signing for Daddy, and he was thrilled to answer the... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 19, 2005, 8:08 am
Category: Jonathan
Current Vocabulary List
Sometimes it's hard to tell exactly when he says something, or to remember to write it down. So I've compiled a list of the words Jonathan can say. Maybe I'll even post comments as he adds words. apple ball bits blind (as in window) boo (as in jumping around a corner to surprise... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 15, 2005, 9:25 am
Category: Jonathan
Power Wheels Lil' Quad
We have a neighbor a few doors down who is almost the same age as Jonathan. Today Justin and his mom and Jonathan and I were outside playing at the same time. Justin has a little Power Wheels vehicle that is designed for kids under three. It has one button to push on the handlebars and it can... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 7, 2005, 10:36 pm
Category: Jonathan
Bits Update
Jonathan continues to love the butterflies. We're almost finished with Van Gogh. We started some mammals, which he likes, too. He likes geography as long as I don't spend too much time on it. We finished with states a while back, did continents, and are now working on countries in Africa. We... (More)
Posted by joyful on April 5, 2005, 8:10 am
Category: Jonathan
One, Two...
In situations where it's fun to count down (jumping, etc.) Jonathan will now say, "one... two..." He doesn't seem to want to say three, but the first two are very clear. We were playing outside today, on our furniture cart, riding it down the very gentle incline of our "yard." When I pushed off,... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 22, 2005, 1:55 pm
Category: Jonathan
Big Helper
This morning Jonathan and I went down to the basement. I opened the dryer door for him and told him he could take the clothes out and put them in the laundry basket if he wanted to. While I rinsed out a dirty diaper, he did just what I said! He unloaded the whole thing all by himself (including... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 18, 2005, 10:41 am
Category: Jonathan
Debian Server
My new server arrived last week, and it came preconfigured with Gentoo, so it booted up, and I checked it out, but I really want a Debian system, so tonight is my second attempt at getting it to install. The first attempt failed miserably, but...I had been having trouble with my usual installer,... (More)
Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2005, 11:34 pm
Category: Reviews
Thumbsucking
Jonathan was a thumbsucker since before he was born. We did nothing to discourage it, except that I would often offer to nurse. Somewhere around 12 or 13 months, I mentioned to Jon that he wasn't sucking his thumb any more. After that, I did notice him doing it in his sleep sometimes. Now, he... (More)
Posted by joyful on March 4, 2005, 7:08 pm
Category: Jonathan
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