Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in Ari Update on Jan 7th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jan 1st, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Dec 27th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Dec 27th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Dec 25th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Dec 20th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Dec 17th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update, TV Shows on Nov 9th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Nov 6th, 2006
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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Posted in Ari Update on Nov 2nd, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Oct 11th, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Sep 21st, 2006
Tuesday, Sara was going to go to Niagara Falls with a friend, her daughter and Ari. (Well her original plan was to see the Dali Lama, and while her name was drawn for second chance tickets, she was unable to go pick them up in person a week before the event, so there went that [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Sep 11th, 2006
I posted some of the pictures of the trip Ari and I made to Stan Hywet Hall up at Flickr. I may post some of my favorites directly to a separate page (so people don’t have to wait a long time for the main page to load).
Posted in Ari Update on Sep 11th, 2006
After the obligatory heavy post prior to this one today, we move on to much lighter fair.
I took Ari to Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens to see the “Butterflies in Flight,” and “Trains Across the Valley” exhibits yesterday. He really enjoyed both, but I think he enjoyed the trains far more. I am trying to [...]
Posted in Ari Update, General on Sep 6th, 2006
This is Ari’s new pet Green Iguana, Quincy.
We chose Quincy as it was a nice unisex(ish) name. If it turns out to be a girl, we’ll just shorten it to Quinn.
I got rid of the mice the other day by abandoning them at a local abandoned house (somehow no condemned notice is on it, [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 30th, 2006
Ari sometimes calls me Brian rather than dad. It reminds me of a girl I knew who called her dad by his name… Needless to say, I generally will ignore him until he calls me dad, or after a few million times of it, will tell him “Ari, I am dad,” where he normally switches [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 25th, 2006
Ari has stopped going for the most part to the restroom. He still does from time to time, but not nearly as much as he was for a while there. Hopefully he’ll get back into it again soon.
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 7th, 2006
For two days, Ari went around the house, without a diaper most of the time so he could go potty when he wanted to. This went fairly well, with few accidents. On the Fourth we went to my mom’s, and there he had pants on and told us when he wanted to go. While there [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jul 2nd, 2006
Ari yesterday, and so far today, has gone without a diaper and no real accidents (save at night when he sleeps). He simply goes to his potty and goes. So he is well on the way to potty training.
Posted in Ari Update on Jun 24th, 2006
Ari is back home after spending the week at Sara’s parent’s house. With Sara gone, I would have had to take Ari out there each day and pick him up each night as he slept. It was decided it would be best to leave him alone most nights and for me just to visit him [...]
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