Month: June 2007

Here’s the situation: Several months ago, I made contact with my niece on the other side of the country that I hadn’t seen since she was about 2. She just graduated and is going to be starting college (and ROTC) this fall. She’s working over the summer to save money for college, but would like…

Looked at some stats from the blog, andit’s kinda funny. During the worst part of Joshua’s hospitalization in March, we averaged about100 visits a day. As a regular website, not a whole lot…but as a basic blog, was a lot. Average now?…about 2 a day. So, yeah…I’ve been slacking a bit. Summer, and things are…

Yesterday was Father’s Day, but this is a train of thought I’ve had for a couple weeks now but hadn’t taken the time to write yet. Yesterday, though, was a bit of a spark to find the time to do so…which I am now beginning as I am doing a server prep. Now THAT’S multitasking……

So almost out of the blue, Sammy starts reading. Complete words, sentences, paragraphs. He’d been tracing along in books like he was trying to read for a while, but sometimes the tracing didn’t match the words, so we kind of dismissed it. Then we thought it was memorization. And then after JoAnn wrote some sentences…

(reposted from MySpace blog) Joshua had fallen asleep, so I took him and did a comfort test on some patio furniture set up in Costco. Was near the entrance, and we were there for quite some time as JoAnn and MikaSam did the shopping. I was a little amazed by the amount of attention we…

Mika and Sammy…or in the unified name we use, MikaSam. 3 months, 2 teeth…and possibly more coming (no, I understand he’ll get a lot more teeth…I mean right now!) Lots of drooling still…chewing on fist…fussiness…and the first 2 are already out. Leads me to think we’ve got more immediately following. (And yes, he is sitting…