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| John's recent Blog entry. | Julia is two ( 258 reads) | Monday, February 22, 2010 (22:29:51) | | | Today is my Daughter's 2nd birthday. Squee, YaYa (what she calls herself), Julia Rose. Named after my beloved grandmother and the middle name of my wife Anne's Grandmother, she is equally and more beloved.
We had two parties for her this weekend. One on Saturday for the family and one on Sunday for her and TJ's (her brother) friends, but today is her birth day.
On my desk at work I have a picture of myself and my wife, one of TJ and Julia and another of just Julia herself. Her hair is slowly coming in all over. At first when she was so small, she had no hair at all. Then her hair grew in from the back and she was mostly bald up top, the ultimate baby mullet, "short up top for the Daddies, long in back for the Momma's"... now it is more grown in, but her hair still resembles the Nick Nolte mug shot in the most adorable way that Nick Nolte's mug shot is not.
TJ, her brother loves her too and she adores him. They are brother and sister though so they have their moments. Lots of people say Julia can hold her own with the bigger kids. The daycare people at the gym say that, some of the parents of TJ's friends say that, so perhaps having an older brother gives her an advantage.
She talks. She talks and says so many things that it surprises you. Some times you think she is a mimic savant with how she can repeat almost anything you tell her to say, to the point when she doesn't repeat what you ask her to, you almost think she is refusing on principle. Animals, sounds, names, phrases, three words at a time. She says "No more eat" when we leave a restaurant, she says "TJ, Mommy, bye bye" if they leave together. Please, thank you, her vocabulary is immense. "Yesh" for yes. "No, uh uh, nope..." all for no. She talks so well I sometimes forget that a lot of two year olds can't speak this way.
At night we read to her as we read to her brother. Sometimes together, sometimes separate from her brother, but the special thing that she and I do is to sit in her rocking chair and sing lullabies’ before I put her down for the night. The same four or five songs. Little Boy Blue, Rock-a-bye Baby, Silent Night, and a sweet song I think I learned from Anne that she made up: "Lullaby and good night, soon you will be sleeping, lay your head down to rest, and soon sleep will appear. Lullaby and good night..."
Our friend Sou knitted her a rainbow blanket that she sleeps with every nap and night. She loves that thing. She also sleeps in a big giant pink fuzzy blanket. I put her down on one half of it and cover her with the other half. Her crib looks like the coziest place to sleep I'd have ever slept, were I able to fit into a 4 foot by 3 foot crib.
She loves dolls and trucks and her play kitchen set that I put together for Santa until 2:30 AM on Christmas Eve. When music comes on the stereo that she likes she leans her head back and yells "Ahhhhhhhh" and spins around, sometimes until she falls down. She loves to watch backward too. One day Anne and I were at the kitchen table and she said to us "Mommy. Daddy. Watch this." and she proceeded to walk backwards from near the able across the next room. We were quite impressed and she knew it.
We love her, our YaYa, our Julia. Happy birthday sweetheart. |
Brylee123: is very quiet around here nowadays!
20:00:54 Brylee123: WHERE IS EVERYBODY?!?!?! I feel so alone, so alone . . . seriously though it
20:00:31 Brylee123: I thought they were more of a blue(?)
18:49:32 schlegel: Loved to Avatar green people, cried a wee bit ha ha Jon
08:44:40 Brylee123: Haha yeah right. I really don't have any poems that I like . . . I'll have to start writing more.
15:43:53 Brylee123: Okay, hopefully this works. This is my poem "The Werewolf": http://www.gotpoet ry.com/Poems/l_op= viewpoems/lid=5481 9.html
18:56:11 Brylee123: okay I'm back. I'll get the url!
16:16:12 Brylee123: Oh . . . okay cool! Off to my poems! Actually, I'm off to bed because it's late I'll PM you in the A.M. with the URL. G'night!
03:07:34 PinkNeonFlavor: All you have to do is go to your poems and copy your url in PM...
22:37:32 Brylee123: Sorry, I didn't meant to seem rude. 
15:15:25 schlegel: Hey Winterchild u there? Jon
07:20:44 Brylee123: Hmm . . . I'll see what I can do. I'll get back to you on this situation.
22:07:57 Brylee123: are you talking to me? guess so . . . what? no poems? I have poems! I have quite a few! You don't see them? isn't that strange . . .???
19:49:58 PinkNeonFlavor: Hello! Hello! You have no poems on this webpage...You gotta get writing some poetry.
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| | The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content. | I like the way you set this all up - I am a member of other poetry forums and this is the most active one I've seen yet!
SO THANKS!
Steph thankyou for gotpoetry. this site means a great deal to me. some of the people i have met on here, are some of the most wonderfull people i have met in my life.- love and peace- paul.p.s. i just found out you are english, i'm english too, from sunderland. which part of london are you from. Originally I'm from Chatham but born in London. I'm in the States now.
hey, hey! j. powers!!! i haven't seen you since... man, 2003 i think. yeah, 2003. i'm sure you don't remember me, but i sure as hell remember you! it was in Providence at AS220 --- that was THE VERY FIRST time i ever heard a spoken word piece & a poetry slam live. you were the main host, along with jared paul. you had spit one in between either the youth slam & featured speaker, or during the open mic session that happened right before the youth slam. it may sound like nothing much to you, but ever since then i've been HOOKED on spoken word. 
anyways. well, i just wanted to say thanks for the comment & rating on "Verse 2: Queen To King.." i really appreciate it.
HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD ONE!  Wow, thats great! I'm glad you have that memory. Its been a long time.
yeah I'd also like to thank you for taking the time to comment on my poems. thanks for building the site and making it better every time. Thanks for reading and commenting on a few of my poems. I really appreciate it. Constructive criticism is nothing but a good thing. I also appreciate your site! Thanks for building it. I need friends lol. I figured... who better than the guy that runs the operation? And yeah, I don't get it: I don't read a poem without rating AND commenting on it; that's half the fun. Thanks for commenting on my poem. It feels good to know people read atleast some of the stuff I write. It looks to me like you get a lot of reads, just not a lot of comments. Poets are strange. Why don't they comment?!
thank for putting my poem in the right spot... Karen I don't ever mind fixing things...
i just posted a poem called Lover i put it under general poems and should have be put under sexual poetry... Is there a way that can be changed?  Karen thanks for your comment on my haiku
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