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There have been a number of things we wanted to work better on the Flying Junior, but mostly because it is hard to find a sailboat store in Pittsburgh, we hadn't gotten around to it.The wind spinner is fairly old, and after the capsize, didn't spin as well as it used to, and in the process of... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 24, 2005, 7:34 pm
Category: General

Songs, Shoes, Books, and Packages

On Tuesday, I just randomly started singing "All Around the Mulberry Bush" without really thinking about it. When I finished, Jonathan said in a singy voice, "monkey, weasel, monkey, weasel!" That evening when we were putting on shoes to go home from the Kuhns, Jonathan said, "right foot" and... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 15, 2005, 2:01 pm
Category: Jonathan

Update from Vicki

Monday morning, September 19, 2005, at 9 a.m., the Judge will begin hearing arguments on Pre-Trial Motions filed in the case. Judy's attorney will be asking for dismissal. Judy has asked me to request that those of you who pray, pray for 3 specific things: That her attorney will be... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 14, 2005, 1:49 pm
Category: Isaac

Counting and Stairs

Saturday, Jonathan started counting to 4 consisently and then went up to 6 a few times. Now he consistently counts to 6, and if you say 7 he will then say, 8,9 and sometimes 10. Also on Saturday, he walked downstairs all by himself, only using his hand on the wall for balance - but he walked, no... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 13, 2005, 1:16 pm
Category: Jonathan

Scrapes, Bruises, and Using Real Language to Talk to Children

In addition to not using baby talk (Would my wittle Jonafan wike a nice kissy-poo?) it is a good idea to go even further and not use baby slang. Here is a personal example of how Jonathan learned the correct words instead of a word he would have to grow out of someday. On the way home from the... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 9, 2005, 10:19 am
Category: Jonathan

It's A Snap!

Jonathan has tried before, unsuccessfully, to fasten the snaps on his onesies. Part of the reason it's hard is that the more he bends over to concentrate, the more his back pulls on the back part, the tighter the snap is - if he tried to adjust his grip, he usually dropped it. So today, I... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 7, 2005, 1:01 pm
Category: Jonathan

More Words

While it is impossible to keep up with all of the new words Jonathan can say, there are interesting stories every once in a while (how "interesting" is measured is probably different among the different readers of this blog) and so I like to share them. Also, I realized that sometimes we say he... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 5, 2005, 9:26 pm
Category: Jonathan

Dr.Seuss

Jonathan has fallen in love with Dr.Seuss. He will quote from the books while we are doing other things, and laugh - "Pat, cat, No, that!" He also can identify most of the words in Hop On Pop, likely at this point by the illustrations rather than the words themselves. One thing that I really... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 31, 2005, 11:47 am
Category: Jonathan, Reviews

Putting Words Together

Jonathan is great at couplets now, for example, "yellow button" "dry diaper" "one hand." He is also increasing his use of complete sentences. One thing he said yesterday was "Yes please, Daddy" which is the first time ever that he has said all three in a row like that for a request. (More)

Posted by joyful on August 29, 2005, 5:31 pm
Category: Jonathan

Funny

In a sales flyer I got recently, there was a line at the bottom that said, "Not responsible fro typos." (More)

Posted by joyful on August 29, 2005, 5:29 pm
Category: General

New Spammer Record

I happened to check my logs this evening and discovered that a spammer had tried to send one of my clients a few emails over the weekend. Only 100,000 or so. He was being blocked via an RBL, but that still takes up resources, so I manually blocked his IP address, as well as ran a ping -f -s... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 27, 2005, 6:34 pm
Category: Internet

Word Association

Jonathan was playing with Heather's hair band, and was calling it a bandand, his word for rubber band, (close to his word for baid-aid: bandane)Heather encouraged him to call it a rubber band, and he made the face that means, "that word is too hard for me to say", so I just said, "rubber", but he... (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 27, 2005, 5:00 pm
Category: Jonathan

Weekend Sailing Adventures, Part II (aka Capsized!)

Sunday after church Jon suggested we go sailing again since we did not make it the day before. After lunch, we headed out again, this time to North Park because it is closer. The wind was strong, the best we've had in Pittsburgh so far. However, it was also gusty and changed direction a lot in... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 25, 2005, 1:25 pm
Category: General

Weekend Sailing Adventures, Part I (aka No Sailing)

This was quite the weekend of the sailboat. Saturday's adventures pale in comparison to Sunday's, but I want to write them down anyway. After lunch on Saturday, we headed out to Moraine State Park, where we have never sailed before. It is about an hour away, but it has a nice big lake. We... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 25, 2005, 1:20 pm
Category: General

Butterflies, Japan

Jonathan now identifies two of his butterfly bits by name: "morpho" for brown morpho and "lady" for painted lady. By the way, I always type his words the way he means them, but often they are not exactly like that. For example, these two words actually sound like "my-foh" and "yay-dee." He has... (More)

Posted by joyful on August 18, 2005, 4:52 pm
Category: Jonathan