Jonathan is saying new words so quickly now that it is impossible to keep track of them. Here are a few highlights from the past week.
I once overheard a neighbor boy across the street complain to his aunt, "That baby is so annoying, he just keeps saying 'hi.' " But the other day, Jonathan did try to tell him something else: They said "hi" to each other as usual, and then Jonathan said "truck, round and round" moving his hands in a circular motion. He was telling the boy about a concrete mixer truck!

On Friday night, Jonathan pointed out the moon for the first time and said, "moon."

On Sunday, I stayed home from church with a cold, and Jon rode his bike with Jonathan in the trailer. When we were getting ready, Jon asked Jonathan if he remembered riding, and he said, "bike, Daddy, Daddy!" with the sign for Daddy and a very excited voice.

That afternoon, they biked and I rode a bus to a wedding of some friends. Certain parts of the music were very loud, and Jonathan pointed to his ear and said, "loud."

On Monday, Jonathan took an empty gallon jug and put it in the recycling bag. Also, he climbed up onto our bed by himself for the first time.

Last week I set up a trapeze for him, which he enjoys, but he is still learning how to use it.

Today, we discovered that the robins had hatched, and we watched the daddy post a guard. Jonathan pointed to him and said, "rob-ee."
Posted by Heather Daley on May 25, 2005, 10:23 am | Read 2353 times
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Proof that my RSS "live bookmark" works! It told me about this post before I found it for myself. How long did the trip to church take? I remember it being a long drive.

Looking forward to new pictures (trapeze, robins, Jonathan in the bike trailer...).
Posted by SursumCorda on May 25, 2005, 11:23 am

Also looking forward to a comment-editor plug-in. Part of me says it doesn't really matter that I didn't close the italics right, but the rest of me is rather perfectionist in these matters.... :(
Posted by SursumCorda on May 25, 2005, 11:25 am

That's too bad, I thought it would fix up html if you did it wrong. Maybe it doesn't care if you have bad html, but converts good html to xhtml.
I will have to see if that is a bug, or if it doesn't work at all.
Also, for all of you who don't read the blog often enough to see what happened, I already fixed Linda's post.
Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2005, 1:35 pm

To answer your question - it took an hour and a half to bike with Jonathan. I had planned on it taking a little over an hour, but I got a bit of a late start, and made one bad decision because I was trying to avoid a narrow stretch of road, and ended up going up a large hill.
When my speed dropped to below 4 mph, I started walking, since it is about the same speed, and walking is less effort than biking.
The trip was 14 miles to church, with a 40 mile round trip, including the wedding and reception.
By car, the trip is 11 miles, and takes about 30 minutes.
Posted by jondaley on May 25, 2005, 1:38 pm

Ok, pictures of robins and trapeze are up. We didn't take pictures of Jonathan in the trailer, but he is eager to go again, so I'll try to remember next time.
Posted by joyful on May 25, 2005, 3:43 pm
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