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February 25, 2005

Hawaii vacation

We got back yesterday morning after taking a red-eye flight Wednesday night. Yawn. Ethan slept the entire flight, and then slept again until 1 pm after we got home. So he's basically recovered, unlike the rest of us.

We did so many fun things... it's hard to pick the highlights. My favorite was going to Makapuu Point and hiking down the cliff (only slightly harrowing) to these big tidepools you can swim in. It was a great way for Ethan to swim in the ocean, since the waves only occasionally crashed in, and even then the effect was gentle. The tidepools were big, and deep -- too deep for me to stand in places. And they had lots of fish in them. Ethan really liked swimming in a pool with a fish, especially the rainbow-colored parrotfish we saw.

He loved the Honolulu zoo, which had lots of tortoises, as well as some very entertaining chimpanzees. When asked what he saw at the zoo, Ethan always said first, "A nene," which is a Hawaiian goose. He also enjoyed saying "mahalo" instead of thank you, which charmed all sorts of people because he sounds so cute saying it.

We also got to visit with Kenny, including seeing a little performance by his group. We ate lots of good food, went out for dinner just the two of us, and visited a lot with Nancy and Fred. We hiked to a waterfall, played at the beach, went to the aquarium, and went snorkeling too. All in all, lots of fun. I'll get the pictures up soon.

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February 09, 2005

New skills

Progress on lots of fronts. He's basically night-weaned. That went very smoothly, I think because he's old enough to understand my explanations. In other news, we're working on some little behavioral things, like not saying, "You did it WRONG!" and getting upset. That one's harder, but he's getting the hang of alternative ways to ask for what he wants.

Today he agreed to lie down and rest after lunch, and he actually fell asleep and is currently napping. Jenny helped him fall asleep.

A new fun game is adding small numbers, as long as they don't get to be more than 10. (Though he insisted on adding 6 and 6 today at lunch, so we had to loan him fingers.)

He now knows how to launch Word by going to the Start menu and choosing Programs, and then looking for the W. I guess we'd better get some parental controls going pretty soon...

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February 04, 2005

Home again

I got home last night after being away for 3 days on a surprise business trip. Jeff and Ethan just drove by and met me outside, and when I got into the car, Ethan was giggling and happy to see me. I guess he started giggling when he saw me walking towards them. I got a kiss too, which is always nice.

Then we had lots of nana, and he zonked out. Hot tub time for the parents. It's nice to be home.

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