From Wit’s End

Jack definitely has a musical talent. If a melody is repeated to him over the course of about a week, he’ll pick it up and hum it himself. If he likes the melody in particular, he will make it his “happy song”: he’ll hum it at the fastest tempo he can when he is in a good mood.

This month, his newest happy song is “Come, Thou Fount of every Blessing“. Next month, we might see if he likes “Immortal, Invisible, God Only-Wise“.

WordPress’s iPhone application was just released in the App store, and this is my first post using it. There is picture uploading capability here somewhere, so I’m going to peruse the photos I’ve taken with my new toy so far, and include it with this post. Here goes…

[UPDATE: Okay, Rachel, this isn't really a photo taken with the camera from the iPhone, but it is a screenshot taken from it, using the screen shot function that I heard about (Hold down the home button and quickly press the lock button). When looking through the pictures residing on the device for this post, this one seemed like the most appropriate. So there. Nyah. ]

…because I can!

I have been in possession of my new iPhone for about 24 hours, and it is COOL!

I was actually in the original iPhone line on Friday morning, but after two and a half hours, it was taking too long, so I left. I had showed up five minutes before opening time, and I was far back enough in line that the manager of the store told those around me that we were all “borderline” as to whether we would actually get one of the first seventy available that first day. It was an interesting experience, but I am glad that I left early. We’re currently trying to potty train Jack, and Rachel runs out of energy pretty quickly in this first trimester. I came back to the same store later in the afternoon and signed up for one by mean of what they called “direct fulfillment”, which basically means that they will special order it and contact you when it is in the store.

So I went to pick it up last night, and though they still had a little trouble with their computer system, it eventually all went through. On my way out of the store, I heard, “Hey, How’s it going?” I looked up and saw the guy that had been immediately ahead of me in the original line. I said “Hey! Did you get one?” He said, “Yeah, I was actually the last one to get one.”

I didn’t think it would start happening this soon. In the middle of the night last night, I feel something bump me on my other side while I’m in bed. I turned over and was boggled to see Jack standing there next to our bed.

We put a “big boy” twin bed right up next to one end of Jack’s crib a few weeks ago, intending to get him used to it slowly by putting him on it for his daytime naps and such. We had seen him use it to tumble in to and out of his crib right before his bedtime, but this was the first time that he had figured out that he could get out of his crib and come see us in the middle of the night.

Well, we put him between us for a little while, and none of us slept very well, and then Rachel went to be with him in his room. Having a twin bed in his room is good for staying with him at night, too.