![]() I’ll update the blog when new material is posted. I may also post some interesting letters and official Navy documents, including ones from the Secretary of the Navy and the President of the United States. The first item is the log book you can find here, which I will add to on a regular basis as I have time to scan its contents. Following the urging from some history buff friends, I’ve decided to scan and post some of the materials. In all the old slides and scrapbooks, I came across his Navy records and aviator’s flight log book. When we lost him last year, I created a slideshow for the funeral with pictures from his life. He always captivated me with his stories from that era, and someday my cousin and I will finish getting them down on paper to share. I think he was most proud of his service as a Naval Aviator. He graduated as an Ensign, then served in the Caribbean with squadron VJ-16 as a Lieutenant, j.g. He became a cadet and attended civilian flight training then flight school in Pensacola, Florida. He worked hard in his youth, as a bartender in Hell’s Kitchen taking care of his parents, and eventually followed his older brother into the US Navy. Thanks, Matt Download of the Day: BabySplat Windows only: Let your toddler bang on the keyboard to her heart's content with BabySplat, software Read. My grandmother Joyce was the love of his life, and he adored his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren… but I think he always thought of himself as an aviator.Īs a kid who grew up in the 1930’s and hung on the fence at Floyd Bennett Field on Long Island, his dream was to fly for the US Navy. We knew him as the patriarch of a large and vibrant family, a successful entrepreneur and executive, an avid sailor, civilian pilot and world traveller. I've heard from friends that mobile babies are a lot happier but she's fairly content as it is.My grandfather served as a US Naval Aviator in WWII. Once she is mobile, everything will change and I have a feeling watching her will be a lot more work (no more plopping her down with a few toys and doing something else nearby). She's rolling over like a champ, standing against objects, and almost getting to the point of crawling. Posted by mathowie at 07:06 PM FebruNine monthsįiona surpassed nine months old the other day. It only took a few sessions with alphababy before Fiona knew what to expect and now every time she sees my computer, she wants to play. If you've got a powerbook with a tough metal keyboard or an extra keyboard for your desktop mac, you can freely let your baby bang away. When you hit any key, a shape is shown (either a symbol or the key being pressed, or optionally, a photograph) and a sound is made (you can turn it off). It clears off the desktop and shields the rest of your system from any harm. ![]() Posted by mathowie at 06:46 PM FebruAlphababyĪlphababy is a great mac app for infants. ![]() Today I witnessed Fiona madly crawling across the floor towards a pair of shoes and when the piano did a few chimes, she paused for a moment mid-crawl, sidetracked a few feet over to the piano, mashed 3 or 4 keys, then continued crawling towards the shoes - almost out of a sense of duty. When it sits idle, it will do a few chimes every 15 minutes or so to remind the baby it is still on. You can't do much, but it plays little midi tunes and can be played like a five note piano. We have this musical piano toy that has five keys you can mash to make sounds. Posted by mathowie at 09:06 AM Ma4 8 15 16 23 42 I'm just glad we finally figured it out for Fiona. There are a lot of good basic sleep tips out there but different things work with different babies. Most recently, her solid food has gone up and I think tanking her up at dinner each night has greatly helped. The Ferber stuff where you let her cry it out never really worked and we could never commit to ignoring her for five minutes, but she's getting pretty good at calming herself down after a few seconds. Then we kept her in her crib as much as possible, so no co-sleeping or feedings in our bed. We've been working on it for about a month now, first by cutting back the nightly feedings and instead just giving a pacifier. ![]() We instituted the nighttime rituals very early on, so that helped matters from the 8PM-midnight realm, but it wasn't until recently that we finally got the midnight-6am sleep to stick. There were loads of nighttime feedings, rockings, and sometimes hourly attempts to get her back to sleep. The first six or seven months were tough on us - even with switching off baby wake up duties still meant we got a maximum of 3 hours of sleep between interruptions. She's otherwise a perfect baby - calm, happy, easy to get along with and loves to travel. Sleep has always been the sticking point with Fiona. Generated by Flickr Album Maker ApSleep, finally.įiona is just about three weeks shy of her first birthday and I'm happy to report that last night was the first night she slept through completely.
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