Nap time!

Words of the day:

Yogurt
Close

Shadow- This was not prompted by any adult. She was walking along a shadowy area and pointed to a moving shadow and said shadow. As she repeated it several times it became increasingly apparent that she knew what she was saying and that her pronunciation was improving.

2007-04-30 Uncle Adam, Aunt Anni and little Dilly.

Cordelia's umbilical cord came off and now she has a cute little cinnamon roll shaped belly button.

Phrase of the day:
Hello baby.

Word of the day:
Back (as she pats her sister on the back to help burp her)

Word of the day:
Gone

Phrase of the week:
Where ba-ba? (Where's dad (Chinese)).

She is now answering her own question. Where is dad, he is gone. She asks about dad's whereabouts about 10 times a day and runs to him when he comes home. Daddy's little girl.

Word of the day:
Broken (she was handed a cup with a broken handle)

2007-04-25 Cordelia 3 weeks old on the comfy chair

Word(s) of the day:
Come

2007-04-24 Daddy and Dilly napping.

We have been sleep deprived mostly because our girls are a tag team and one wakes up when the other is asleep. Naps are always at least as valuable for the parents than for the children at this stage.

We have had Elnorra for over two years and her nick names have always been longer (Elnorra-worra) or unrelated to her name (bubba-zoo). Cordelia was not even 5 hours old before we both started calling her Dilly. Ben called her Dilly-munch on her birth day and I often call her Dilly-willy.

2007-04-21 What fun! We were invited to a BBQ at a friend's house and after Elnorra and Windy went swimming and played on the trampoline they got dressed and warmed up. Elnorra was still interested in playing with the other kids and found the mud puddle. Good thing we had a spare outfit! It's amazing to see her grow up and mature. Six months ago she wouldn't have cared what the other, older, kids were doing. Now she wants to be involved, but just don't know how she fits in yet.

Word of the day:
Penguin

2007-04-19 Elnorra loves to play with money and always takes the change out of our wallets and puts it into her purse. She also has a very good sense of paying for things, even though she has no concept of diffrent values. I will give her the necessarry amount and then she will pay for things, especially bannanas. She got to ride this electric car ride because she insisted on pulling out her purse and paying for it herself.

17 April 2007 Cordelia's baby shower (2 weeks old)

Mom and baby.


Our amazing friend Bev Gams.


A big sister activity book for Elnorra.

Word of the day:
Prayer

2007-04-16 Cordelia 2 weeks old

2007-04-15 Sad with dad

Words of the day:
Yogurt

Phrases of the day:
Baby Sister
Jei-Jei (older sister in Chinese)
Mei-Mei (younger sister in Chinese)

2007-04-13 Sad with dad.

Word of the day:
Elbow

Word of the day:
Nail (finger nail)

Word of the day:
Camera

Cordelia 1 week old

Elnorra's word of the day:
Hug

Words of the day:
pacifier "fier"
cry

Gee you'd think she just got a little sister!

Word(s) of the day:
Amen (at the end of dinner prayer, she's never repeated it back before)

Phrase of the day:
no wanna (ah, the grammatical embarrassment of it)

All American-(Made in Taiwan)

Cordelia Anne Shaffer was born in Taipei, Taiwan at 11:04 am on the 3rd of April, 2007 (her due date). She had an easy and natural entrance into this mortal existence and mom and baby are doing extremely well.

8 pounds 8 ounces (3850 g)
21 inches (54 cm)

Cordelia-Latin-Heart; Irish-Jewel of the sea; Astronomical-innermost of Uranus’ moons; Literary-The virtuous daughter of King Lear

Anne–Hebrew-Favor. Grace.

Shaffer-German-Shepard.

2007-04-03 Mommy with Cordelia on her birth day.

2007-04-03 Dady and Cordelia on her birth day.

2007-04-03 And then there were four.

Words of the day:
Pants
Shirt

Words of the day:
Bean (Jelly bean-We celebrated Easter today)
Blow

Phrase of the day:
No, no, I blow (bubbles).

She is also starting to really understand the diffrence between up & down, on & off, open & closed. She still often says the opposite word, but is more accurate every day.