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6/14 - On our camping trip, Faith liked to play Ice Cream Shop. Her flavors are unique: pineapple hot sauce, strawberry beet, water, to name a few. After those, I requested just plain ice creams, though she really wanted to put hot sauce on most of them. We finally settled on a... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 17, 2011, 7:11 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Firefighting

I don't think it has been said here, other than in small mentions here and there, that I joined our volunteer fire company in Middlesex Township a couple of months ago. I am not sure of the exact number of incidents that I've gone out on, but the number is probably around 8 or so, though... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 9, 2011, 4:57 pm
Category: Reviews

Pocket Notes

Joy has two hair swirls at the back of her head. One goes clockwise and one counter-clockwise. Each of my other children only have one. 5/3 - Joy's two month appointment. 12 lb, 3 oz. She is developing a birthmark in the upper right of her forehead (can't remember the... (More)

Posted by joyful on May 19, 2011, 6:57 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Lots of Notes

Faith has started calling Jonathan, "Ohnny-int" This is related to how she says medicine ("meddy-int") and other words that end in /n/. She also says her own name, which sounds unfortunately rather like "Hate" but the /t/ is a bit softer, maybe halfway between that and "Hathe".... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 15, 2011, 9:13 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Pocket Notes

3/11 - Faith can count to six. 3/12 - Faith counted to ten. She isn't consistent with this. She'll get stuck after six, but if someone says seven, she can do the rest on her own. I don't think she has quantity recognition past five, though. And she sometimes likes to... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 28, 2011, 6:21 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith, Joy

Joy Ellen Daley's Birth Story

I'd been having these strange contractions for a few days. Not the simple Brackston-Hicks that I have throughout pregnancy that feel tight but do not hurt. Not crampy labor contractions, either. They were very tight and they hurt. They came usually when I was sitting – on the couch or... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 25, 2011, 12:35 pm
Category: Joy

Minivan: Oldsmobile Silhouette

We bought a "new" minivan last year, and it had the lowest mileage, and highest cost of any car we've owned so far. It is a 1997 Oldsmobile Silhouette, and it had 107,000 miles on it. We did a lot of driving (I hit 135,000 today, after a year and a half). Heather and I both... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 22, 2010, 10:41 pm
Category: Reviews

A Full, Crazy, Fun Week

11/6 - Noah and I were making rice krispie treats and Noah was stirring. He asked for a marshmallow, but I said no, they had to go in the recipe and he could have one of the finished products. Well, he decided to snitch and got a natural lesson. I, only a few feet away in the... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 15, 2010, 5:57 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Pregnancy, Noah, Faith

Visiting Washington, DC

We arrived at the Fitzkees' house on Thursday night, and Nick said we could stay as long as we wanted. We ended up extending our trip by a day and coming home on Tuesday, which was a good decision. I think we spent the right amount of time for the whole family to enjoy the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 8:48 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

2010 Family Bike Trip to Washington, DC: First Two Days

I've wanted to bike to DC for a while, but there never seemed like a good opportunity to do so. Once we purchased the tandem bike, and started thinking about the possibility of biking all over the country, the Washington trip seemed like a good first step. The trip did get... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 4:39 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Church Bike Trip - July 2010

As Heather mentioned , it did take us a while to get this post written, but I thought it would be good to have a record of it, so here goes... Each year for the last several years, Paul has organized a two day bike trip for the kids of BCF. This year, we drove to Rockwood, PA... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 20, 2010, 2:43 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Sprinkler Auto-Timer

Someone asked what timer we recently purchased, and I figured I should post it here, since it seems to work pretty well. We bought the " Meinor Aqua Flush ", I chose this one because it was the only one available at Target while I was buying our third sprinkler (I should do... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 3, 2010, 1:27 pm
Category: Reviews

Bike Trip, Vacation, Notes

This is going to be woefully brief. The bike trip was adventure after adventure, lots of fun, but lots of work. Among the things you'd normally expect on a bike trip, it included four tire blowouts on the triple-tandem, a torrential downpour, a tent with no stakes, Jonathan riding... (More)

Posted by joyful on July 26, 2010, 8:15 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

High Fructose Corn Syrup

We generally try to avoid corn syrup of all kinds (but we only "try", meaning it isn't banned or anything like that). But, when I'm looking for cereal or granola bars or whatever, I check the ingredients and particularly try to gauge if sugar (in whatever form) would be the first... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 11, 2010, 9:16 am
Category: Reviews

Pocket Notes

6/1 - Noah's use of /f/ in everyday speech has increased immensely and he now uses it in a substitution. 3 = "free" 6/1 - Jonathan cut Faith's bangs "because she asked me to." Forgot that part about asking Mom or Dad... He actually did a good... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 10, 2010, 4:22 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith