Daley Ponderings

Repetition and Memorization

I can now recite in their entirety from memory:
Miss Spider's Tea Party
Dr.Seuss's ABC
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
and maybe Sandra Boynton's A to Z, though I haven't tested myself on that one yet.

Posted by Heather Daley on April 15, 2005, 9:38 am | Read 2276 times | Comments (3)
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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. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 15, 2005, 9:25 am | Read 2831 times | Comments (6)
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New Words

April 8 - "three" So he can count "one, two, three" now, but often will still stop at two.

April 10 - "grass" (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 15, 2005, 9:11 am | Read 2233 times | Comments (0)
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Kisses and Sneezes

The other night when it was time to say, "good night" to Daddy, Jonathan kept leaning over for kisses, and once even pursed his lips the right way! (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 8, 2005, 9:08 am | Read 1889 times | Comments (0)
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More Animal Sounds

Jonathan's animal sound repertoire has increased to:
"ee-ee" Monkey
"moo-moo" Cow
"hoo-oo" Owl
"pphht" Elephant
"wuff-wuff" Dog
"eow" Cat
whispery sounds - like Dr.Seuss "soft soft whisper of a butterfly"
"sss" Snake
"ba" Sheep

Posted by Heather Daley on April 7, 2005, 10:46 pm | Read 3340 times | Comments (0)
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Porch Door, Knock Knock, Whistling

Jonathan can now open the porch door (going from inside to outside) all by himself! He was so happy with the accomplishment, he did it over and over. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 7, 2005, 10:41 pm | Read 3025 times | Comments (0)
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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. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 7, 2005, 10:36 pm | Read 2725 times | Comments (0)
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Oiling the Coding Gears

Jon has me working on some stuff for Lime Daley so he has time for his other projects. For the most part, changing settings has a user-friendly interface that I can do pretty easily. However, there are some code things "in the background." (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 7, 2005, 10:31 pm | Read 2520 times | Comments (0)
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Helping Is Fun

I mentioned before that Jonathan likes to take the clothes out of the dryer and put them in the laundry basket. Now he likes to put the wet clothes in the dryer if I take them out of the washer and hand them to him. His favorite part, though, is pressing the button to start the dryer. He can't do that by himself, but I lift him up. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 5, 2005, 3:08 pm | Read 2046 times | Comments (0)
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Cute Things

On March 31, Jonathan was playing with his little people. He put a girl on one of the circus cars so that she was lying down, said, "night night" and put his head down on the coffee table. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 5, 2005, 8:39 am | Read 1972 times | Comments (1)
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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. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 5, 2005, 8:10 am | Read 1924 times | Comments (0)
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Sick Again - Diagnosis

We went in to see Dr. Anderson yesterday because Jonathan has had a recurrence of the coughing and throwing up routine, and this morning started a fever. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on April 5, 2005, 8:07 am | Read 1544 times | Comments (4)
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Jonathan's Recent Activities

He seems to have at least one new word a day now. Sometime before March 24, he said "boots." On March 24 he signed "cheese" and drank some water from a small bathroom cup by himself without crushing the cup to a pulp and without spilling very much. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on March 29, 2005, 9:05 am | Read 1991 times | Comments (3)
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Unenforceable Laws

While looking up information on the Pennsylvania Use Tax (which is another story for another day) I found a regulation that states that tourists in PA who stay longer than 7 days are required to pay Use Tax on items that they brought into the commonwealth and used while they were here. How enforceable is that?!?

Posted by Heather Daley on March 28, 2005, 10:05 am | Read 2935 times | Comments (4)
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Puzzle

This morning Jonathan clearly said, "puzzle." It was not a Mommy-only interpretation, I'm sure. Anyone would have understood it. (More)

Posted by Heather Daley on March 23, 2005, 8:34 am | Read 2231 times | Comments (2)
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