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He Has A Good Memory
As I was changing a diaper, I thought I heard Jonathan say "eechee", so I said, "eechee, nee, san" (which is my own personal spelling of...
joyful, 30 July 2005 |
Breastfeeding Encouragement
For the first time ever, today a stranger assumed that Jonathan is breastfed. We were walking home from the store and an older lady...
Credit Card Processing
I had figured it would be too expensive for Lime Daley to accept credit cards, but Citibank recently sent an advertisement that they...
Remembering
Every day so far since we've been home, Jonathan has remembered out loud the fun he had on vacation. He says, "Water, deep. Sand!...
Water Recycling
I have discovered a fun and convenient way to water our plants. Our air conditioner drips about a gallon of water a day if we run it all...
Jonathan Highlights
Colors - just before we left for vacation, Jonathan and I were sitting on our tshirt quilt. I pointed out a yellow sun, and he repeated...
Video Projector
After a lot of deliberation, we (mostly myself, as Heather thinks it is neat, but not really worth the money) decided to get a movie...
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Jonathan was reading it to himself while I changed his diaper, and he said the sounds for most of the pages in addition to saying "Brown"...
Water Play
Jonathan and I were taking a bath this morning when he stuck his face in the water and blew bubbles, his own idea! He has been much more...
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...
Grocery Bags
It's taken a long time and persistence, but I have now succeeded! Today I bought several gallons of oil, milk, and orange juice, and I...
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...
Break's Over, Mom!
I have not been consistent with the bits recently, but this morning, Jonathan let me know that it's time to get with the program! When...
Counting Fingers
On Wednesday, Jonathan counted his fingers on his own initiative - he held each one and said, "one, two" "one, two" "one, two..." It was...
Internet Searching
It seems that lots of people have trouble typing in keywords into search engines that result in the hits that they want. Every once in a...
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
I have come to a new appreciation of that little spider. When I was a child I always thought it was a rather stupid creature not aware...
Catch Up
With visitors and camping, I have not been as faithful in recording Jonathan's growth as I'd like. But here are some recent things. He...
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...
Incredibles
I was reminded of the Incredibles today by a slashdot article , and I went looking for the "Everyone's special, Dash." "That's just...
Fledglings
This morning when I went downstairs, I saw one of the baby robins out of the nest on the ledge! Later when I went by all three were in...
Music Meme
I had heard of memes before, hadn't paid much attention until Adrian Drury mentioned it a couple weeks ago on snurgle, and today I...
Ladder
I realized this morning that we didn't ever post about going to the Pasteriks a month ago or so. Jonathan had lots of fun with the...
Robin Observation
The chicks have started preening themselves. I opened the smaller panel. It would be a nice view except that the outside is very dirty...
Ergonomics
At my last job, I discovered that after I gradually developed some pain in my shoulders that my desk needed to be raised. When I got to...
Successful Inside Robin Viewing
After much disturbing of the poor robins, I have taken off the paneling over the window and have a lovely view of the nest. It is at a...