Some of Johnny's better expressions. Sorry for the mess of these tables, but I promise I'll clean it up someday.

Johnny's first word: "Dat" meaning clock.
Soon after came "Nono" or "Ñoño", somewhere inbetween the two, meaning window.

As of Nov. 11, 1994

July 10, 1995
        While sitting on the toilet, Johnny said, "Mommy, poo lives in bums and pee lives in weenies."

        Nowadays Johnny gets "him", "her" and "she" and "he" quite consistently backwards.
        He also knows how to say "please" but almost never does unless prompted (It's a bit frustrating).

Sept. 3, 1995.
        Johnny is completely toilet trained (and has been for several weeks). He's just beginning to use
"she" for mommy, but only after a lot of effort on our part.

June 23, 1997
        Johnny speaks very well now, but there are still some grammatical improvements to be made.
For example, the grass wasn't cut, it was "cutted". He's quite articulate for his age.

        This evening he was playing on the freshly mowed lawn and fell, scraping his arm on the sidewalk.
Five minutes later he was still howling. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" On his way into the house,
by way of complaint I finally said, "Johnny, so loud." His, response? "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I CAN ONLY
YELL THAT LOUD! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

July 28, 1997
Tomato:        "Pimmayno"

Nov. 3, 1997
        "God is so big that if he stood on the ground his head would still be in heaven!"

Dec., 1998

Jan., 1999

May 9, 1999

Today Johnny drew a picture of a bookend. He drew it, however, as "a fly would see it if it were on the ceiling." A view from above. An hour and a half after bedtime I caught Johnny standing at his desk, drawing a perspective view of a barn!

June 25, 1999

Yesterday was the last day of school. See Peter's page for a funny story. Well, Johnny brought home his report card and it was all A's and B's. I'm very proud of him. Today it's raining but since we had planned to have a party we're going ahead with it anyway. Should be fun watching all these kids expend ten months of pent-up energy!

July 17, 1999

I asked Johnny to hold his breath as long as he could. He held his breath for 65 seconds! (Just for the record, I held mine for 85. I'm proud of both of us!)

August 17, 1999

As Mary stepped out the front door she said, "Look! A butterfly on the tree!" Johnny said, "It looks like a marnoch butterfly." Mary said, "It IS a monarch butterfly." Johnny exclaimed, "DON'T EAT IT! IT'S POISONOUS!"

Sept. 5, 1999

This evening at dinner Johnny let out a huge burp. Peter was starting to laugh and Johnny was smiling. Mary asked, somewhat seriously, "What do you say?" expecting a polite "Excuse me" from him. Instead, Johnny replied, "Thank you, thank you very much. You're a great audience!" (It's not often the four of us laugh together as hard as we did at that moment!)

Sept. 11, 1999

I called the kids into the dining room and asked, "Did you guys put these here?" Johnny replied, "Yes, I found them in the grass." "Do you know what they are?", I asked, known full well what the answer would be. "No." came the response. "They're rabbit poo!" Reacting with disgust, he said, "Aww, I thought they were nuts!" "Did you try to eat any of them?" "No, they were too hard." (Daddy breathes a sigh of relief J )

Sept. 14, 1999

Johnny has chicken pox this week. About the third night Johnny couldn't sleep. He was crying. "Chicken pox hurt."

Oct. 9, 1999

I was showing Johnny my brand new contact lenses as I removed them from my eyes. I told him all about them, and after removing them he said to Mary, "Mommy, those lenses are really easy to lose because they're pitch clear!"

Feb. 2, 2000

Johnny and Peter were given Donkey Kong 64 for Christmas. Until his birthday, Johnny was totally obsessed with the game. He would lie awake at night thinking about what strategy he would try next. On his birthday he was given a Gameboy, with a Pokemon game cartridge. Now he's obsessed with that. AND DK64! It's hard to get him to sleep because of it. He's very intense.

March 18, 2001

Here is Johnny's book report:

"Le Mystère De La Bague Introuvable" est une histoire pour les filles. Par example, ou sont les dragons? Ou sont les monstres? Ou sont les batailles? Ou sont les aliens? Cette histoire est très ennuyeuse. Elle manque quelque chose comme surexcitation et aventure. Qui s'inquiete du problem des filles? Qui s'inquiete de la bague perdu. Cette livre met moi à coucher.

January 16, 2003

Here's an actual conversation I had with Johnny the other day:

Johnny: I found a daddy long-legs!

Owen: What did it taste like?

Johnny: I didn't eat it yet.