Letters from Evan
Evan’s been wound up and ready to play all day…so of course, it’s been a miserable rainy day. I was playing with him today in his room when he looked at the brand name on his crib and started reading off the letters to me. I didn’t ask him to (we spend a lot of car rides going through the ABCs and 1 through 10), he just looked, pointed at each letter, and started reading them off – until about halfway through. He’s not as well acquainted with the alphabet past, say, P.
Not sure what the average age for this sort of thing is, but he’s just over two weeks away from 20 months.
How much of this can be attributed to his day care, or to the combined forces of Sesame Street and They Might Be Giants, or to dear old dad, I don’t know. But I’m still very proud of him. He’s growing blindingly fast, and I like to occasionally entertain the illusion that maybe, just maybe, I’m getting this parenting thing right.… Read more
I mentioned a day or so ago that my wireless router was fried in one of this week’s copious lightning storms. I have a lot of stuff networked between machines, especially with regards to the Avid (though it’s not like that sucker’s even plugged in during this kind of weather!), so that’s kind of a big item. Fortunately, one of my friends on the Digital Press forums has got my back on this one and is sending me a router that had recently been made redundantin his network, for which I’m indescribably grateful. A big shout-out to “NoahsMyBro” for his beyond-merely-generous help on this one.