Kids on John's Random Review

Funny Things Easton Says: Part 2

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:50:09 +0000

Easton is now almost 4. I figured I’d have a “part 2” to follow up on the original part 1 before this, but, you know. Things. They come up. So I’m a little behind schedule on this one. :)

“Gwirl” (rhymes with “Squirrel”. This is how he produces the ultra simple word “Girl”. It is one of the funniest things he says. sometimes I try to correct him, and he says “no, it’s gwirl!” If you didn’t hear it all the time, you probably wouldn’t notice it. but now that I’ve pointed it out, you’ll hear it too.
“my friend pogo-stick” – for a while, we think easton had an imaginary friend that he had named “pogo stick”. no idea where it came from.
“my friend robin” – now he’s in a HUGE superhero kick, so now his imaginary friend is robin. So that’s a good thing, it means that he’s the lead, and he has at least one sidekick. So tonight before bed, he was looking through his books, and said “I don’t want to read this one, I just want to look at it to see if Robin wants it for his birthday”
“This sounds like a job for [superhero]!”, where [superhero] is whichever super-hero shirt or pajamas he is putting on.
A whole set of words where he just drops the first (few) syllables. I’m not sure if this is just the hip new thing that kids his age are doing to save typing on twitter or what:
- "-chine" for "machine"
- "-cado", for “avocado”
- "-nected" for "connected"

Of course, there are a bunch more, but now that I started writing them down I can’t think of any!

Why I'm buying a Kinect

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:26:52 +0000

Now that Kinect for XBox360 has officially released, i’m allowed to say that we participated in the beta program for Kinect, and that we’ve been playing it now for a few months. (i even got a avatar t-shirt and a 0 point achievement, yay!)

There’s a very simple reason that i’m buying it: Easton can play it. He’s only 2, and doesn’t have the dexterity to do anything with a wii-mote or an xbox360 controller, but he can run in place, and he loves to play Kinect. Supposedly, the recommended minimum height for players is 3 feet, but for the most part he can play some stuff.

Funny things Easton says: Part 1

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:04:27 +0000

Well, probably more accurately, “things which easton says or mispronounces that i find funny”. Right now all the ones i can think of are single words. he’s starting to form sentences so i’m pretty sure there will be funny phrases for a future installment.

“Zune” is easton’s word for “phone”. I really wish i had my zune still (lost it on an airplane…) so he could be even more confused.
“Bean” is easton’s word for “beer”. “Daddy’s bean” is what he says whenever he sees a glass bottle of any kind. even though he says other words that end with the “r” sound, he will not say beer, he just says “bean” louder if you try to correct him
“Coshee” is easton’s word for “coffee”, although i think last weekend he started saying it right. He loves to run the coffee machine weekend mornings, and seems to enjoy the taste of even black coffee. I don’t know if its because he likes to copy me or if he really likes the taste. He does like raw garlic and onions though, so it wouldn’t surprise me if he likes the bitterness of coffee.
“Shark” is easy’s word for “fork”. sometimes its just “sark”. The weird thing is that he can say the “f” sound, so i don’t know why he won’t say fork.
“Fi-fi” is what easton calls Felix Hernandez. But most of the Mariners call him that too, so that’s okay.
“Pay-pay” is what easton calls Peyton Manning. I’m generally pretty anti-Peyton, but he’s my fantasy QB this year, so i root for him, but against the Colts in general.
When he sees cats, or squirrels or other small animals outside, he will generally say their name, then say “eat”. The conversation goes like: “Meow. Cat! Eat?”, “no, we don’t eat cats.” “eat? no eat.”

Easton!

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:45:06 +0000

I have been a little busy for the past oh, 10 weeks, so i haven’t gotten to post. But i’m always busy with something, so i figure i should just post some little posts more often.

So here’s a fun one!

Just over 10 weeks ago, Laura had our first child (of many, i’m sure. i’m not a basketball fan, so maybe a hockey team? baseball team is wishful thinking!), Easton John Gardner. If you’re following my flickr easton collection contents like our friends and family, you already know that!

OH! Please, let it be a boy!

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:53:23 +0000

If not the overlord, maybe he is batman?

Ultrasound

Batman/boy?

As gizmodo says:

Step one: Strap Mattel’s Wayne Tech Mega Cape on him from the day he can walk. The wings spring out with a single touch, instantly readying him to fly down a staircase and into the ER. $40, June. Health insurance sold separately.

I think my baby might be the overlord?

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:23:14 +0000

Ultrasound	Overlord

I’m not the only one that sees it, am I? And this is NOT photoshopped in anyway, the image is just resized and mirrored to match the box art. If you go to the flickr page you can see the original!

Ultrasounds are awesome, i have to say that much. I cannot believe how detailed information you can get by firing sound waves through someone!

There’s a whole bunch more ultrasound and pre-baby pics up in this flickr group, and the ultrasound video is up here on youtube.