Scottlyn turned 1 year old on July 28th, 2010. The first few pictures here are from that day. Her party was on the 31st — the following Saturday — and the remainder of the pictures are from then. :)
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Jul 10
Scottlyn’s First Ice Cream
We let Scottlyn eat some ice cream on her birthday at Chick-fil-A. She loved it. :)
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Jul 10
Playing fetch with Cisco
Scottlyn loves to play fetch with my in-law’s dog Cisco… as you can plainly tell.
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Jul 10
Scottlyn and the Tribble
We have a stuffed Tribble that I got years ago that makes a noise when you hit it. I brought it upstairs a few weeks ago and Scottlyn keeps finding it and telling me, “No, no, no,” by waving her hand at it. I thought maybe she was part Klingon. So today when she found it I scooped her up and loaded “The Trouble with Tribbles” episode of Star Trek. After a few minutes of watching the people interact with them on the show she grabbed the toy and started loving him. “The Trouble with Tribbles” seems to have cured Scottlyn’s trouble with Tribbles. :)
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Jul 10
“Real Life” friends vs. “Real” friends?
My mother-in-law pointed me to this article titled “The ugly side of technology: Impatience and forgetfulness,” and asked me what I thought of it. This was my reply…
ARE your Facebook friends more interesting than those you have in real life?
They are my real life friends.Has high-speed Internet made you impatient with slow-speed children?
No. :)Do you sometimes think about reaching for the fast-forward button, only to realize that life does not come with a remote control?
Nope… the opposite really. A pause button.I think the whole “real life” and “internet life” distinction is something that needs to be done away with. My real life contains those people I’m friends with online. What determines “real” friendship? Communication, exposure, similar likes and dislikes, time together? Does it have to be verbal communication and time in the same physical environment? I don’t think so.
Also that “real” and “internet” distinction fosters the fallacy that what you do “online” does not effect your “real life.” Which is, obviously, completely untrue.
The fact that gambling, pornography, and other online “addictions” (including facebook) exist is no more worrisome than the fact they existed before. You may argue that it’s “more easily accessed,” but in reality I don’t believe that is true either. It’s simply accessed differently.
If people didn’t use the internet for an escape — and they needed an escape — they would certainly find and use something else.
What are your thoughts?
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Jul 10
More service please…
Scottlyn and I were hanging out together yesterday while Celeste did a couple of teacher interviews for Oak Grove. We were at the church building that Oak Grove meets at (they are not affiliated with any specific congregation). We went into one of the nurseries that had a little “diner” play-set. After playing on the “kitchen side” of the play-set for a while I took her around to the other side and sat her in the seat on the “diner side” and showed her how the little doorbell worked, explaining that when she used it she would receive more service. She loved the bell and got the full meaning of “more service please.”
