Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Ari Update on Aug 1st, 2007
There is a good way to tell when Ari is misbehaving. He’ll say “Don’t look at me,” he may expand this to say what it is he is doing that you are not supposed to see him doing. An “Oops! Sorry!” may also be a clue.
We may take him roller skating Saturday… I haven’t been [...]
Posted in Ari Update on May 22nd, 2007
Ari the other day, nor for the first time, broke my heart. I had to go to work, and Ari just started balling, crying and saying “But you don’t want to. You want to stay and play with me. It’s play in my room day.” I actually cried on the way to work, thank God [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on May 16th, 2007
I talked about Nuttin But Stringz a while ago, and now the video is out there I thought I would share the video on Noggin that got us to learn about them. When Ari sees the video he pretends he has a violin. Check out their official site.
Posted in Ari Update on May 6th, 2007
Ari wanted to type something so here we go:
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Posted in Ari Update on May 1st, 2007
Enough political posts today.
Ari is wearing regular underwear now, except at night where we still put him in a regular diaper. He is now more or less officially out of pull-ups except on trips.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t checked out the rest of the Ari Updates in a while, be sure to do so now, lots [...]
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
The video quality here isn’t great, as it was taken with a camera phone, but here is a video of Ari, at the end of which he claims he is Darth Maul (lead villain in Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace. The look on his face was very funny.
Posted in Ari Update, Vids on Apr 27th, 2007
Ari’s favorite music video of late is Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights. He does it with lots of her dance moves while he watches it and it can be quite funny…
He is also a fan of Ben Harper’s A Better Way, sometimes asking “I want the Better Way song.”
Posted in Ari Update on Apr 12th, 2007
Sara’s mom took Ari and Sara to COSI yesterday (I had to work so I couldn’t join them). From all reports, Ari had a great time as one would expect of Ari at a science museum like that. Ari was asleep when I got home from work, and I haven’t got much out of him [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Apr 9th, 2007
The newest video I uploaded to YouTube. Here Ari is dancing while watching Lord of the Dance.
Posted in Ari Update on Apr 3rd, 2007
Ari has been full into asking “why?” for a little while now. Anything somebody says to him is followed by “why?”, and he’ll just ask “why is ?” off and on as well.
He is also into saying “I want to ask you something?”, although it sometimes comes out as “I want to tell you something?”, [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Mar 13th, 2007
Last Saturday, after we cleaned the house, I took Ari out of Sara’s hair for a little while and took him to a public star gazing party at the Astronomy Club of Akron (I myself was a member… 30 or so years ago…) Ari had a great time, as did I. These star gazing parties [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 8th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 3rd, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 3rd, 2007
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).
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 3rd, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 3rd, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Feb 17th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Feb 3rd, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jan 28th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jan 16th, 2007
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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