March 2005

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.

posted by Heather Daley on March 29, 2005, 9:05 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

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 | Comments
Category General

Puzzle

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

posted by Heather Daley on March 23, 2005, 8:34 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Light Beer

We went late to a party the other week and also stayed late to help clean up. It turns out that this year the guests were not beer drinkers, so the host had lots left over. He was not unhappy about that, but he did have a few bottles of light beer that he lamented still having. I offered to take a couple of bottles to try in fondue.

posted by Heather Daley on March 22, 2005, 4:21 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Are The Old Ladies Right After All?

Friday evening, Jonathan was cranky, he fell asleep early, and he felt hot. I wondered if it might be an ear infection because his right ear had been squeaking when he nursed.

posted by Heather Daley on March 22, 2005, 4:21 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

One, Two...

In situations where it's fun to count down (jumping, etc.) Jonathan will now say, "one... two..." He doesn't seem to want to say three, but the first two are very clear.

posted by Heather Daley on March 22, 2005, 1:55 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Big Helper

This morning Jonathan and I went down to the basement. I opened the dryer door for him and told him he could take the clothes out and put them in the laundry basket if he wanted to.

posted by Heather Daley on March 18, 2005, 10:41 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Debian Server

My new server arrived last week, and it came preconfigured with Gentoo, so it booted up, and I checked it out, but I really want a Debian system, so tonight is my second attempt at getting it to install. The first attempt failed miserably, but...

posted by Jon Daley on March 17, 2005, 11:34 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Kids Just Grow Up So Fast

I called my friend Alissa today and her four and a half year old son William answered. I said hi and asked for his mom and he said, "Well, she's downstairs right now, but you can talk to me and tell me what you want to say and I can tell her." It was not that long ago that he would only say, please call back. It wasn't even that much longer before that when he couldn't even answer the phone!

posted by Heather Daley on March 17, 2005, 10:11 AM | Comments
Category General

Good Night, Daddy

Last night when it was time to go bed, after I changed his diaper, I took Jonathan down from the table and said, "Go into the other room and say good night to Daddy and then we'll go to bed."

posted by Heather Daley on March 17, 2005, 9:18 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Formal Business Letter

There was a problem in opening a bank account for Lime Daley, I think they typed in my social security number wrong. This is the letter that they sent back to me explaining why my account had been closed.

posted by Jon Daley on March 16, 2005, 9:32 AM | Comments
Category Reviews

Puzzles and Rhythm

Rhythm is such a funny word I had to look it up to double check the spelling. Anyway, Jonathan has shown advancement in doing puzzles, having patience to turn the piece more than in the past. Today, he successfully put the triangle and square pieces in his shape sorter, where before he only could do the circle.

posted by Heather Daley on March 15, 2005, 10:23 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

One Disadvantage to Signing

For lunch on Saturday we had pasta with red sauce. Jonathan had it all over his fingers when he signed "please" and smeared sauce all over his shirt!

posted by Heather Daley on March 14, 2005, 8:47 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

No, Thank You

While clearing the breakfast dishes this morning, I asked Jonathan if he wanted more juice. "Yes, please or no, thank you," I prompted. He replied, "No. [pause] No, thank you." Very clearly!

posted by Heather Daley on March 11, 2005, 1:42 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Italian, Oatmeal, and Dolls

Jonathan has an Italian board book that Aunt Janet brought him from Italy, which I stumble through as best I can. After I read a book, he will usually turn through the pages again himself. This time, he babbled in a more singsong voice, unlike his usual talking. I really think he was trying out the Italian!

posted by Heather Daley on March 7, 2005, 3:02 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Thumbsucking

Jonathan was a thumbsucker since before he was born. We did nothing to discourage it, except that I would often offer to nurse.

posted by Heather Daley on March 4, 2005, 7:08 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Words and Doings Update

Jonathan says, "shirt" now and yesterday and today he said "undo" when asking us to undo the highchair strap.

posted by Heather Daley on March 4, 2005, 6:56 PM | Comments
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Have A Nice Day

When I was in the grocery store today, a lady came up to me and said, "Did you see...?" and proceeded to tell me a sad and horrific story she had read in the newspaper. I said, "no, that's one reason I don't read the paper" and she went on about it and how angry she was. I started to move on, and she said, "Well, have a nice day." Yeah, not quite as nice as it had been. . .

posted by Heather Daley on March 4, 2005, 2:26 PM | Comments
Category General

Grammy Teaches a Sign

Grammy likes to sing "If You're Happy and You Know it" and one of her verses is "duh" with the hand motion of smacking your forehead. She sang it on the bus to Jonathan on our way to the museum.

posted by Heather Daley on March 1, 2005, 6:55 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Children's Museum

Grammy decided that it would be fun to go to the Children's Museum, and boy was she right! This place is so so so so fun.

posted by Heather Daley on March 1, 2005, 2:44 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan