tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65981342024-03-12T20:38:39.890-05:00elias simon david jaime jasonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger650125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-33186181919688582432010-02-20T22:31:00.003-06:002010-02-20T22:46:37.993-06:00Elias' arrivalThe social revolution that is Twitter and Facebook means that this blog is no longer the go-to place for up-to-the-minute news about things like births and Iranian politics. If you don't know the essentials about the birth last week, then you need to "plug in" dude.Jaime describes this birthing experience as the perfect end to a miserable pregnancy. Smooth, easy, enjoyable. Boring, almost.But Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-82756042696924081512009-12-31T23:58:00.004-06:002010-01-01T00:51:43.459-06:00Eternal Earthbound Pets repliesMuch to my surprise, one of the principles of Eternal Earthbound Pets replied to my email. Except that he didn't reply to my email, he replied in the comments to my blog post about the email. You can read it in context there or, um right here, with a couple of editorial comments.Hmmm..yes, I see your email in my business partners trash: jasonxxxxxxxxx@sbcglobal.net>He handled inquires for West Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-904612904853430402009-12-29T22:53:00.001-06:002009-12-29T22:55:53.982-06:00ChristmasChristmas this year--at least the beginning of it--has felt over-shadowed. I know that my feelings don't matter at all in relation to the marking of the Nativity of Christ and that most important aspect of the holiday was the highlight. Because of the weather, very few people made it to Liturgy so that only David and I served at the altar. I loved serving with him and he enjoyed the additionalUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-28327031309831295022009-12-20T22:36:00.003-06:002009-12-20T23:00:49.434-06:00Altar BoySo, I mentioned before that David and I have been practicing at being an altar boy. Today was the big day. Having practiced several times and told everyone who would listen that he was going to be serving, came in the back stairway after Sunday school, got his robe on, came in, prostrated, got his blessing, and then served like an old pro. Before he came up, I prayed to various and asorted Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-31031080544314156322009-12-17T16:00:00.001-06:002009-12-17T16:01:45.642-06:00Pithless Thoughts: Orthograph #2 - TeachersPithless Thoughts: Orthograph #2 - TeachersPithless Thoughts: Orthograph #2 - TeachersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-35760769807798402702009-12-15T22:49:00.005-06:002009-12-15T22:55:03.197-06:00Brothers"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers KaramazovI didn't grow up with brothers. One of my brothers died as a toddler and I hope intercedes for me before Our Heavenly Father. The other is quite a bit younger than me and has always lived in another town. I consider it a flaw in my character that I did not develop closer Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-10738137484692623482009-12-12T22:20:00.002-06:002009-12-12T22:26:02.789-06:00This post composed in a blog that may also contain traces of wheat or dairySimon has had some pretty serious digestive problems since he began eating. I won't inflict the details on you. Receiving nothing really useful from the medical establishment, we have experimented ourselves. Our first breakthrough came from taking mild out of his diet. The second came by taking wheat out. The difference is noticeable and possitive, but it does make life a little bit Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-55413314452922972302009-12-11T22:39:00.003-06:002009-12-11T23:04:14.206-06:00ErrataI have uploaded a small variety of new photos to Flickr.I came on this site one night in the boys' room, which I believe is an alternate ending to either Curious George or King Kong.School time. Haven't talked much about that, but it is going ok. We don't do enough, but David is learning to read, write, do math, etc. When it is going well, it looks like this. Simon occupies himself on the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-81378955591600503902009-12-10T23:10:00.001-06:002009-12-10T23:13:11.765-06:00SquirmiesIt actually bothers me a bit how much the new one moves around inside his poor ailing mother. He'll have these bouts of squirmies (to use the technical term) that feel like he is a couple of wrestling puppies egged on by toddler swinging a kitten. It makes Jaime miserable. But, by all other accounts, he is healthy and growing so I have to feel gratitude while I sympathize with Jaime, who feelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-46249541795053487582009-12-09T22:49:00.001-06:002009-12-09T22:52:24.542-06:00Where David surprises me by paying attention and Simon is sickDavid behaves as well as any five-year-old in church--fidgety, tired, bored. our agreement is that he knows what points in the service that he is expected to stand, and for the rest he simply needs to not distract others. Then, I don't hassle or lecture him. If I see during the service that he is not standing, then I will limit his play for the rest of the day, expressing my concern that we Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-54403493878705117552009-08-26T12:41:00.002-05:002009-08-26T12:46:06.490-05:00My letter to Eternal Earth-Bound PetsI sent the following in an email to Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USADear Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USAAs an Eastern Orthodox Christian, I don't believe in an a Rapture scenario like that made popular by the recent "Left Behind" books; however, I have some questions about your business.Among Rapture theorists are those who believe that the Rapture will occur before a period of intense tribulation. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-120682947414485102009-08-06T16:27:00.010-05:002009-08-12T22:25:40.993-05:00End of training seasonA friend of ours gave David a bicycle a couple of years ago. For the first year we had it, he was too small and could not control it. But he has done ok with training wheels for the past year. Recently, I had noticed that, when he was riding in a straight line, he would todder back and forth from one training wheel to the other, indicating that he was not relying on them to keep him up. But IUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-87191917222520416482009-08-05T23:00:00.000-05:002009-08-05T23:04:39.767-05:00FishingDad is threatening me unless I update the blog and I will admit that a lot has happened since the last time I wrote to you. Mostly: fishing and bicycling.I don't remember now where David got the idea that he wanted to fish, but it came from somewhere a long time ago. I am always interested in learning a new way to get food from scratch, so I was game. Thing, is, I don't know diddly about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-50949874631675378822009-08-05T22:58:00.002-05:002009-08-05T23:03:46.262-05:00BeatSo I took the whole morning off yesterday to spend 30 minutes in a doctor's office to hear 30-seconds of sound--the sound of the heartbeat of an 11-week-old. It was totally worth it. It was Jaime's first with the nurse/midwife who will be our captain of baby birthin' for number three.This is a pregnancy blog again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-71296193076514506622009-06-20T23:40:00.003-05:002009-06-21T00:31:28.641-05:00Old FoodFor lunch today, I dolloped kim chi onto egg-roll wrappers, rolled them up and fried them. I made the kim chi myself. This evening, I jarred and refrigerated sauerkraut that I made myself and I pickled some fresh beets. One jar of beets I am pickling with vinegar, sugar, and spices. The other, I am pickling with whey. I "made" the whey myself from yogurt. Typically, I think of whey as a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-40058162572538149572009-06-18T15:25:00.000-05:002009-06-18T15:26:43.618-05:00Juniper envyHey, look! Someone else is living my dreams.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-21345964959239018952009-06-15T22:09:00.006-05:002009-06-16T11:31:49.870-05:00DOWAMAPLCSHRF2009Part of the problem with trying to keep a regular blog (if memory serves) is remembering interesting things to write. I hit on a new idea today. Typically, when something of note happens, I Tweet about it. So my Twitter/Facebook status list becomes a sort of outline for possible blogging.Thursday, David and I set off for an adventure. We were to spend two days in Wichita at the Parish Life Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-57826166185717249112009-06-15T21:34:00.005-05:002009-06-15T22:09:09.958-05:00How David Got a Free* FishSo we were at the Smoky Hill River Festival (more on that later) and the boys wanted to play some of the games. First David attempted to pitch the dunk tank, with no success. Next, we spied a game consisting of a table covered with vases of water. There were some small fish in a couple of these vases. The object was to throw a ping-pong ball in the general direction of the vases. If the ballUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-18567313282951782962009-06-10T23:05:00.007-05:002009-08-26T13:44:44.472-05:00I had a farm in AfricaTomorrow, David and I leave for Wichita for the 2009 Parish Life Conference of the Region of Ambiguous Status formerly known as the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America. I'll spend my day doing grown up things, like listening to annual reports, while David goes to the Zoo. He was feeling nervous about it because he thinks that he is afraid of crowds of people he does not know. Nevermind that you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-71772481470455589852009-06-09T23:30:00.003-05:002009-06-09T23:58:29.502-05:00The house smells like chicken and beetsAuntie Skylar started a new blog about her latest project and that got me to thinking, "hey, I have one of those; I should dust it off and see how long it takes before I can prove I know how to use a semicolon correctly."The Big News around here today is that David woke up from a bad dream to a Buzz Lightyear. The way Jaime tells it, he told her that he had a bad dream this morning and woke up Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-26635139777255698182009-04-12T23:36:00.004-05:002009-04-13T13:39:27.983-05:00About Simon's armSimon has a broken Ulna (not a Radius, as previously reported). It happened like this. Sometime in the past week, he began to occasionally complain about pain in his arm. I would pick him up by the arms or bump him and he would say his arm hurt. He did the same with Jaime. Each time we would both do the same thing: carefully examine the area where he indicated he had pain, and ask him to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-4734153357132026402009-03-11T09:57:00.003-05:002009-03-11T10:01:36.261-05:00Reading with DavidAlthough we are beginning later than I had wanted, we are finally moving into full gear (2nd-gear, at least) with David's reading. Jaime's new schedule has allowed us more breathing room for this kind of structure. Additionally, David is developing a growing awareness of reading and the benefit to him.We had our biggest break-through last week when he finally got the idea of blending sounds Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-88229047339626880562009-02-17T22:06:00.004-06:002009-02-17T22:27:29.775-06:00"Best Buddy" the final episodeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-35276272671014274742009-02-06T10:09:00.000-06:002009-02-06T10:10:00.888-06:00Sick SimonSimon has been feverish and vomiting for 24 hours now. He is not doing as poorly as we have seen in the past, but he feels pretty miserable. Breaks my heart to see him this way.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598134.post-63367223427552442422009-01-31T09:39:00.006-06:002009-01-31T14:12:20.464-06:00"Best Buddy" Episode IIWe filmed this at the end of the day so David was getting kind of worn out (hard to believe, I know). He had been singing these all day. So they aren't quite as imaginative as they had been earlier in the day. Nevertheless I think they still reflect the bold creative genius of the thrash-toddler-mosh-haze genre.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0