Daley Ponderings

2/15 - JPD walked up to me and hugged my knees.  He now does this often.

2/19 - JDD quotes from The Incredibles, with an Indian flair: "This is your automated captain speaking. Would you like more samosas?"

2/24 - JDD "What's the difference between lo mein and chow mein, and why isn't there a high mein?"

Our Daley vacation to Washington, DC fits in here, but I'll post my notes on that separately.

2/26 - I do not usually post my children's prayers, because they are so personal.  But this one was so beautiful and simple - a true example of the childlikeness that Jesus wants us to have, that I think it will be a blessing to share it.  Joy, praying out loud at dinner for the first time. "Dear God, Love dinner. Amen"

2/26 - And, now in that same dinner the conversation turns to other subjects.  JDD, "It's in an annhiliated pile of..."  He and Noah finish in unison, "Annhiliation!"

3/3 - Jeremiah rolled off the futon onto the floor.  Joy remarked, "Dat was a nice tumble-sault."

3/5 - Joy was tired of not being able to get clean clothes in the morning when our bedroom door was shut.  So we moved Faith's clothes around to empty a drawer in their room for Joy.  Joy transferred her clothes into her new drawer all by herself.  She carefully re-folded everything very neatly, and stacked them into like piles in the drawer.  She did the whole operation herself.

3/6 - It's too quiet and Mom's brain is in too many places:  I was working on school with Jonathan and remarked that Jeremiah was being really quiet, I wonder what kind of trouble he's getting himself into.  A few minutes more and I can't stand it.  I have to go find out what's going on before I have some big disaster to take care of.  I start searching, and what do I find?  A peacefully sleeping baby on the couch in the living room - exactly where I had put him!

3/6 - Joy showed me that she can climb up to and down from the top bunk all by herself.

3/8 - Faith got her yellow belt! 

Her test looked pretty different from the boys', mostly because the class had a higher percentage of younger kids.  It was still two hours long, but they did more moving tests - obstacle courses, and moving from station to station to demonstrate their knowledge, and not so much holding one position for a long time.  They did do the meditation position at the end for a long time, though, and we (the parents) were wondering if a couple of them were sleeping.

3/10 - Jeremiah looked in the open door of the broom closet, saw the broom, reached out for it and said, "Ah! I get that" and started sweeping the dining room.

Some time before that, he was playing Legos with Jonathan and picked up a piece and said, "Ooh, what's this?"

3/11 - He said "up" quite distinctly a couple of times, and "nan" for banana.

3/12 - Joy and I were discussing her age.  She remarked, "When I two a half, then I little."

3/17 - Jeremiah knows how to bring a step stool somewhere so he can reach higher.  Ack!

3/20 - Jeremiah climbed down the stairs from halfway.

3/21 - Noah read the dijon mustard label as "digital mustard".