Thanks to Those Wacky Willmanns

I'm not very good at sending "Thank You" cards to people when they give us presents, so I thought I would let Lillian say thanks for her birthday (literally. her actual day-of-birth) presents. . . and Isaac had a lot of fun helping Lillian open her presents.

Our first conversation

Isaac and I had our first conversation this morning at breakfast. Here's how it went:

Isaac: "More cereal, please."

Doug: "Okay"

Isaac: "Thank you. Daddy cereal?" (He offered me some).

Doug: "Thank you."

Isaac: "Welcome. Ummm"

I think he realized we had just done something special but he didn't quite understand what it was, so he kept offering me more cereal to try and recapture the moment. It was great.

Death Star Look-Alike

I stopped by Radio Shack this morning and picked up the last parts I need to finish my star projector. I painted it a couple of days ago and it looks kind of like the Death Star . . . so that's pretty sweet. I'll post pics and a write-up of the project when I get it all done. I'm super excited. I put my maglight in the projector to get an idea of what the final star-projections outcome would be, and it looked pretty sweet. Isaac liked it too. He kept running around the room trying to touch all the stars he could reach.

If you have any interest at all in looking at stars, check out this freeware at www.stellarium.org

It has about a million fun features such as, it allows you to change your view to match your location on the earth, you can zoom in on various objects like the surface of the moon of Pluto, etc. It's a lot of fun.

Words, Words, Words

Our Parents As Teachers did his 18month "test" and she asked "Does he know 8 words yet." So I decided to count the number of words he 1) used without being prompted and 2) used correctly


all-done
all-gone
alligator
Apple
arm
baby
back pack
ball
balloon
banana
bath
bathroom
bear
becky
bed
bee
belly
belly-button
big
bike
bird
blanket
blocks
bob (as in bob the tomato)
book
bottle
brush
bubble
bucket
bug
bulldozer
bunny
candle
car
cat
cd
cereal
chair
cheese
christie
circle
coat
Coffee
cold
color
come on
cow
cracker
crayon
cup
daddy
dark
diaper change
dig
dog
door
down
duck
ears
elephant
eyes
finger
fish
flashlight
foot
fork
frog
go
grandma (grandpa)
hand
hat
head
heater
help
hillary
hot
hungry
hurt
isaac
jesus
jimmy
jr (from veggie tales)
juice
keys
kick
larry
leg
lillian
lion
little
mary
mcqueen (from Cars)
milk
mommy
monkey
moon
more
mouth
nail (as in finger nail)
nap
nemo
no
nose
okay
outside
owl
pen
pencil
phone
picture
pillow
pizza
please
potty
rock
sad
sheep
shirt
shoes
shovel
sister
sleeping
slide
snake
socks
sorry
spider
Spoon
star
straw
strawberry
stroller
sun
swing
table
teeth
thank you
throw
tickle
toes
towel
toy
train
tree
truck
turtle
tv
Uh-oh!
up
watch
water
wee!
Yes
yogurt

Mars

If you happen to be reading my blog right now, stop and go look at the moon. Well, actually, go look at Mars, which is right next to the moon.

Here are a couple cool astronomy sites I like:
www.skypub.com
www.space.com

Blog-out

It's kind of like burn-out, only with a blog. But I found some new motivation, so away we go.

I haven't looked forward to a Christmas as much as I am right now since that year I knew I was getting the RC Hovercraft (6th grade - I pealed back the tape and took a peak, which, by the way, totally ruined that Christmas).

Isaac will be bombarded with Bob the tomato.
Lillian will probably sleep most of the day (in Grandma Jeane's arms this time :)) (no that wasn't a smiley face with a double chin, it was a smiley face and I still had to close the parentheses so it just looked like a double chin).

Isaac knows about a million words now. My favorite are please and thank you. Yep that's right, we've already got him using them . . . but not always at the right time. Today I was cutting his toe-nails and he randomly said "Thank you, Daddy" . . . eh . . .you take what you can get. And I know that what he was really saying was "I love you Daddy." (I'll pause for your "awwwwws" . . . done? Good.)

The only news I have about Lillian is that today we had to wash her car seat, twice. Poop. Thank you Pampers, I'll stick with White Cloud When I started buying diapers for Isaac I had a hard time remembering which generic brand to buy, White Cloud or Parents Choice-we had decided we liked White Cloud a bit more, although I can't remember why-anyway I eventually found a trick, every time I buy diapers I think about baby Jesus floating on a white cloud, and that does it for me: I thought this an appropriate side-note since it's Christmas