What a perfect day. I prepped a planting bed on the shady side of the house in the morning, with some help from Isaac while Mama and Ephraim looked on. Then we just sat on the deck for a while while enjoying the world. Later in the day we went to Mike and Melissa’s, where [...]
The new little one is a talker. I grabbed two minutes of a ten minute soliloquy, which encompassed several bouts of cooing, two spit-ups, and a whole lot of head holding up.
Update 1: Looks my video go boom. I’ll have to re-upload tonight.
Update 2: Fixed.
‘Twas requested that I shoot a video touring our new digs, so family far afield could see how we are living these days. This one clocks in about 11 minutes, so make sure you are comfortable before we start.
Check out this fantastic picture on the big picture blog from the ice storm we had a couple of weeks ago. That’s the one that knocked our power out for a day and ended up roastimacating our garage door openers and my new microwave.
Today Isaac decided that walking was his preferred means of locomotion. It was fascinating to watch; his behavior just up and changed. He’d be sitting on the floor, and instead of crawling he would stand up. What a strange phenom! Something clicked in his brain and now he wanted to stand up and walk instead [...]
I watched the 8 videos of Dr. Albert A. Bartlett’s presentation on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy on the youtube, and I was way creeped out. Doc was all about trying to get people to viscerally feel what happens when you have an exponential growth rate. And he did a nice job with examples, and charts, [...]
Here is a most interesting article describing research linking autism rates in children with television watching.
The Cornell team searched for some independent measure of increased television viewing. In recent years, leading behavioral economists such as Caroline Hoxby and Steven Levitt* have used weather or geography to test assumptions about behavior. Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
Hooray! Isaac is one year old today. Why it seems like only yesterday that Blossom had me pull over at three in the morning so she could have a contraction on the side of the road. Today was a mostly normal day. We did give Mr. J. a few new birthday toys, but he was [...]
This weekend Mimi Trish came to visit. We had a lovely time, managing the boy and eating and drinking. Standard family encounter. We went to the Stone Zoo on Saturday. The grownups looked at the animals and Isaac looked at all the people. Then on Sunday we had the main event: a real haircut for [...]
