May 2006

First Sailing Adventure, 2006

Sunday, May 21st, on the way home from church, we saw what a gorgeous day it was and we wanted to go for a sail. We ate a quick lunch and then I took a nap while Jon and Jonathan prepared a picnic dinner and got the boat ready.

posted by Heather Daley on May 26, 2006, 8:45 PM | Comments
Category General

Grammar, Tricycle, Foreign Languages, Pens, Sun

5/16 - "That was a lot of running. Now I need some breath."

5/17 - "I leaved... I leaved... I left it a little bit open."

posted by Heather Daley on May 24, 2006, 6:15 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

36 Weeks

Jon had a business-related meeting this evening, and so needed to be in to work on time today. Thus, Jonathan and I went to the midwife appointment by ourselves.

posted by Heather Daley on May 24, 2006, 5:32 PM | Comments
Category Pregnancy

My Mother's Day

Saturday, Jon bought me a beautiful little azalea bush which we put in a big pot.

Sunday morning, he served me breakfast in bed - pear slices arranged in a heart shape around scrambled eggs.

posted by Heather Daley on May 15, 2006, 11:29 AM | Comments
Category General

More Independence, Thinking, Talking

At church on May 7, Jonathan washed his hands in the bathroom completely independently for the first time - turning on the water, reaching the sink, reaching the soap, turning off the water, drying his hands. I offered to lift him up as usual, but he said, "I can do it!" And he did!

posted by Heather Daley on May 15, 2006, 11:25 AM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Thank You Mom (Daley)

(Originally read on the phone, Mother's Day, 2006)

Dear Mom,
I want to say some things to you and I thought it would be easier to write them in a letter because I am not very good with words and after all those years of getting me to write thank you notes, you know how hard it is for me to say, "Thank you".

I want to thank you for being my mom.

posted by Jon Daley on May 14, 2006, 7:34 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Thank You, Mom (Wightman)

On the GirlTalk blog, they've been posting tributes from daughters to mothers, and I thought I'd write one for my own mom.

posted by Heather Daley on May 14, 2006, 7:33 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Bloggers Make The News?

I was poking around on Slashdot, a site I used to read regularly, but then decided it was taking too much time. I found an article about Microsoft trying buy a portion of Yahoo, and apparently Yahoo rejected their offer.

posted by Jon Daley on May 14, 2006, 6:10 AM | Comments
Category Internet Reviews

Cheerios in Milk

I have discovered that Jonathan likes his Cheerios in milk if they don't have time to get soggy. So now we have two bowls at breakfast - one for dry Cheerios and one for milk. Then he puts a few in the milk at at time and eats them with his spoon. He gets a lot of milk that way, too.

posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 12:20 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Father/Son Day

On Sunday, I went to a baby shower and Jon and Jonathan went out to lunch with our pastoral intern. Then they took me home so I could get a nap, and headed out to the annual Texas Independence Day party at the Regans'. (TID is really in March, but the party was delayed.)

posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 11:51 AM | Comments
Category General Jonathan

Prayer

On Sunday we were singing "Forever God is Faithful, Forever God is strong, Forever God is with us, Forever." This is "Samuel's Song" for me - the song that rang through my head all day long when Sam K. was born. It reminded me of all the prayer that went up for his birth, and God's faithfulness in answering it.

posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 11:44 AM | Comments
Category Pregnancy

Robin Eggs Abandoned

We don't really know what happened, but we hadn't seen any robins at the nest for a while. Three weeks after Easter, I became suspicious, and now for sure these eggs won't hatch. We're going to clean up the whole window area and hopefully next year we will have successful robin hatching.

posted by Heather Daley on May 10, 2006, 11:39 AM | Comments
Category General

Dean Kamen Quote

I read an interview of Dean Kamen recently. I first heard of him when he was demoing his Segway invention around the mall in our very own Concord (I don't know if I will ever be a Pittsburgher - still feel like a New Hampshirite), or possibly for USFirst, but he has been around a while - I think he said something about inventing things for 30 years.

posted by Jon Daley on May 10, 2006, 11:35 AM | Comments
Category Reviews

Microsoft Anti-Spyware / Defender

I guess Microsoft has decided they have cornered enough of the Anti-Spyware market to start charging for the tool to fix their insecure OS. Microsoft popped up a dialog offering to download the new version of the anti-spyware tools. Usually the upgrade doesn't pop-up a separate window, so I was suspicious.

posted by Jon Daley on May 6, 2006, 4:16 PM | Comments
Category Reviews

Exercise

Good advice: if you're tired, make yourself get some exercise, even (or especially) if you're pregnant!

posted by Heather Daley on May 4, 2006, 2:40 PM | Comments
Category Pregnancy

The Christmas Tree Survives!

Our first attempt at keeping a live Christmas tree live was a dismal failure, for two main reasons. One, we didn't take it down until April or some other such long time. Two, I misunderstood the instructions about misting the tree. What you are supposed to do is mist the branches to keep them hydrated. However, I thought you were supposed to mist the rootball. So this poor tree never had enough water from the start.

posted by Heather Daley on May 4, 2006, 2:32 PM | Comments
Category General

Pouring, Questions and Answers

Jonathan can be very good at pouring things if he is careful. He can pour just the right amount of juice into a glass, he can pour just the right amount of cereal into a bowl. Sometimes he gets excited, especially to look around to make sure we're watching him, and that often leads to trouble. But if he concentrates, he does excellently!

posted by Heather Daley on May 4, 2006, 2:21 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Fruit and States

On our flight to Boston, I made sure we had plenty of snacks. Jonathan was eating a fruit leather when he held it up and exclaimed, "Looks like Nebraska!" It really did!

posted by Heather Daley on May 3, 2006, 4:33 PM | Comments
Category Jonathan

Family Bed

After two and a half years of sleeping in a family bed, it is surely ingrained in me. When our friends' daughter needed to spend the night with us when her baby brother was being born, I couldn't bear the thought of putting her in another room.

posted by Heather Daley on May 2, 2006, 8:41 AM | Comments
Category General Jonathan

USA Datanet

I don't think I have written about USA Datanet on this blog. They just reminded me to tell everyone how great they are, so I will gladly do so.

posted by Jon Daley on May 2, 2006, 6:04 AM | Comments
Category Reviews