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Car Seat Buckle
When our car was disabled, we had the carseat in the house, and Jonathan loved playing with the buckles and straps. Recently, he has...
joyful, 2 November 2004 |
Bits of Intelligence
I have been teaching Jonathan using a not-so-intense version of the programs recommended by The Institutes . I'm adding this post...
Mid-Night Bath
Thursday night, Jonathan was crying for hours, which is completely unlike him. At about 2am, he threw up all over himself, me, and the...
Science Demonstration
We happened into the kitchen when the heat was on - and found a balloon floating in the air above the register! Jonathan thought it was...
Good Kick!
Jonathan is amazingly adept at kicking a ball. We have fun playing "soccer" together, and he usually kicks the ball straighter than I...
Chase
Jonathan likes to be chased. Especially fun is for Mommy or Daddy to get on hands and knees - then he (nearly) runs away and giggles...
Signing, finally!
I had just told my friend yesterday that I was getting discouraged about signing because Jonathan was not doing any except for an...
Hello
This afternoon, Jonathan walked around the dining room table, and when he got back to where I was, I said, "Hello!" He immediately said,...
Getting off the Bed
In a recent post , I mentioned that our bed is a little too high for Jonathan to comfortably get off by himself. So today, I took the...
Vacuum Cleaner
On Monday, which is my vacuuming day, I did two floors while Jonathan took a nap. Then for the other two floors, he was awake, but he...
Paperwhites and Peppers
Our paperwhites from last year are starting to show little green tips! Our hot pepper plants are starting to flower again. I wonder...
Internet Connection
People at work have finally gotten sick of the lack of support from our IT department. Their FTP site was not operable the other day,...
Dermatologist and Philosophical Rambling
I went to a dermatologist this morning to have a mole removed and a small skin lump checked out. My referring doctor said this...
Spam
I just noticed on SpamCop that since August I have received 1.5 bytes/second of spam. And I get significantly less spam than most...
Version Control Comparison
I have been evaluating different version control programs for my company for the last month or two. My current evaluation is that all of...
Damp Wall
There is a spot of wall on the landing of our basement stairs that has been getting soggier as the summer progresses. We've had lots of...
Open and Close
Jonathan likes to watch me "take the diapers out of the washer and put them into the dryer." This evening, he closed the dryer door...
Games
Jonathan and I now have this fun game where we sit on the bed and fall back. He will do this by himself now, and he thinks it's very...
Talking in His Sleep
At some point in the middle of the night, Jonathan, in a sing-song quiet voice, said, "Hi-eye, oh, bdoy" It was cute.
Oh, Yeah!
That's Jonathan's favorite phrase nowadays. He says it while walking, while looking at lights, and at other random times. Somtimes it's...
Jack Ganssle
Jack Ganssle is a conference speaker and has a monthly newsletter that I have been subscribed to for a couple years. He wrote an...
Light Switches
Jonathan can now flip the light switches in both directions. He also continues to enjoy pulling the chain switches.
John (The Fish) Put Out of Misery
The last of our four gospel fish was so weak on Monday that he got stuck in a plant. Then when I freed him, he got stuck on the filter...
Puzzles
A couple guys here at work have been working on some puzzles. They didn't like my solution to the 3rd puzzle, as they wanted it to be...
Windows Shell Auto-Completion
On all the windows machine I use, I have auto-completion turned on for the dos prompt. Apparently, I must have gotten that behavior from...