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Ari is 3 today… wow…
We decided to get him a Vtech V.Smile TV Learning System, which we’ll wait until his party Sunday night to give him. There are lots of cartridges for it to add more educational games to it. I think Ari will think it is a blast and be educated at the same [...]

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Ari is taking lessons at the local YMCA. So far he is taking swimming and gymnastics.
Swimming he is not too enthused about. Though he does sit on the edge with his feet it the water he clenches onto the teacher when they take him in. All the parents have to stay in another room and [...]

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While Ari loves being a Jedi, he also likes pretending he is Ollvander, and will pretend to give you a wand and have you flick it, then go “No! No! Definitely not!” take the wand from you and exchange it. (More info on his shop here).

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Ari loves Star Wars, particularly Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace (Widescreen Edition) as he loves the battle with Darth Maul… as a matter of fact when he does the Star Wars theme he’ll actually sing the start (first two notes anyhow) of Darth Maul’s theme. Anyhow he loves playing lightsaber, so his [...]

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Ari: Knock Knock.
Me: Who’s there?
Ari: Orange?
Me: Orange who?
Ari: Me! (Starts laughing as if it is the funniest joke in the world)
This joke comes out of him trying to do the old “Orange you glad I didn’t say banana again?” knock knock joke. I think his version is funnier because of the way he starts laughing [...]

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We got a family package to the North Canton YMCA the other day, and Ari will start swim lessons and gymnastics here soon. We took him once so far to the pool. It took a while to get him to go into the water much, but then he pretended to swim and that was going [...]

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Ari going around the house diaper free except when goes to bed at night. We got a small seat for him to put on the big toilet and his little toilet is setup in the living room. There have been a few accidents, but nothing major yet. When he needs to use one, he’ll [...]

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One of the most noticeable aspects of Ari’s speech is that his K’s are pronounced as a T. There are a few other things as well, but that is one of the ones that can be heard clearly and identified. Once he has his 3 year checkup soon… wow… 3 years… we’ll have his doctor [...]

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Ari is starting to recognize several letters and numbers. If I show him a capital A, he knows it is the letter A. He knows a bunch of others, but thinks Q is an O, which is understandable at this point. Now we just need to start working on the phonics of the letters with [...]

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I forgot to update on what they decided Ari had, salmonella, and the fact that he came home Tuesday. The salmonella probably came from the Iguana, even though we never handle him like we should, we handle his water dish, which is probably contaminated and the cross contamination happened from there. Everyone is much better [...]

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I wrote earlier how we all had some stomach flu. Well about 10 PM last night I took Ari to the emergency room. He had slept all day, wouldn’t drink anything and his diarrhea was pure water, not to mention a fever of 103 or something like that. Amazingly we got into the room real [...]

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I uploaded more pictures of Ari, and pictures by Ari… Just click one of the pictures in the sidebar, then click “brian_a_thomas’ photostream” for all the pictures, or “Pictures of Ari” to limit it to just pictures of Ari and by Ari. Sorry for the long delay… These ones are mostly Christmas pictures, though [...]

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I have already detailed a few of the things Ari got, here are a few more:
Clothes…
Boggle Jr.. I recommend this game. Even with Ari not yet being 3, he can play so long as it is somewhat guided. Say we put the word Sun in the holder. We point to each letter and spell and [...]

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I have already talked about Ari’s play tent which we got for him for Christmas.
My dad got Ari a Thomas the Tank Engine play set, particularly the Thomas the Tank Water Tower Steam Set. So the blue track set it is. There are lots of cool things we can add to it. (The set seems [...]

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I mentioned in the Christmas list post, that Ari loves Thomas the Tank Engine.
The other day we went to a local shop in North Canton, called Toys and Trains. There they had a Thomas the Tank Engine Table top (basically a piece of plywood with a landscape painted onto it and placed in a Thomas [...]

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We went to Toys-R-Us the other day and got Ari his Christmas present. We got the Neon Hide-Me Tent & Tunnel Combination. There are a few cool things that can be added to it, such as more tunnels (follow the link and click on the link for Pacific Play Tents) and the like. I thought [...]

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Since I am talking about new TV shows, Ari’s favorite new show, and it would seem favorite show of the moment is Upside Down Show. It is an odd kind of show, with brothers David and Shane who have their viewers use their imaginary remote control to help them with stuff… Okay, bad explanation… just [...]

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Dig this. Ari pretending to cook and putting his very good imagination to use. He uses beads as the food, then a cell phone charger as the mixer and gives it the mixer sound.
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I, sadly, was at work while Ari went trick-or-treating for the first time. Word is that he enjoyed it. He said “thank you” to most everyone but didn’t say “trick-or-treat.” Sara asked him if he wanted to go home along the way and Ari was “no. More candy!” Once he got home (well, to his [...]

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Ari makes an appearance on this Vegan Freak podcast. Skip to about 93:45 where they wrap up talking about a caller that was commenting on one of Sara’s calls (actually a few bits in this podcast relate to one of Sara’s calls, she has been on a few times). About 49:15 into it they start [...]

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