Dilly's words of the day:
Pizza
"pop" popcorn
water

Dilly's Phrase of the day:
"ery is-ms" Merry Christmas

Dilly's word of the day:
Windy

Today Dilly climbed out of her crib several times. Yipes! Now we have to convert the crib to a toddler bed wheather I like it or not! I'm not ready for her to have this freedom...

Dilly's word of the day:
Mine

Dilly's word of the day:
Baby

Dilly's word of the day:
Paper

Dilly's Phrase of the day:
Bring me to mommy.

Dilly's word of the day:
"ank" Thank you accompanied with sign

Dilly's First verbal apology

"orry" Sorry coordinated with her sign language sorry.

Dilly's Phrase of the day:
"And That"-She wanted the cheese with her cracker.

Dilly's Word of the Day
Grandpa (Grandpa Shaffer is visiting for Thanksgiving)

Dilly's word of the day
"unk" Skunk

As it is Thanksgiving, she does say thank you in Sign language all the time, she also signs food, pacifier, done, sorry and please.

Dilly's word of the day
eye-responding to a game with daddy, he said eye, she pointed to her own eye and clearly said "eye"

Dilly's Word of the day:

"Mon-kee-ee" Monkey (Reading Curious George with Grandee)

Dilly's words of the day
Bowl
Book

Dilly's word of the day
"boon" Balloon

Dilly's wrist is much better and the pediatrician didn't find mention of a fracture in the Urgent care's formal report and Dilly was acting like it hurt her so much less that we took off the splint, she has a bad infection on the side of her hand where the splint had pinched it and that took an additional 2 weeks to heal but she's backup to full speed now.

Dilly's word of the day:
Up-wanting to get out of her crib first thing in the morning.

Words of the day (Dilly):
"He" help
"Gra" Grandee

She was even singing her own quite version of the ABC song...

So cute, and she does hear it a lot from her older sister.

Her favorite song is "The Wheels on the Bus" as no matter how loud she is crying and for how long, that song always calms her down (at least while we are singing....) She also knows several of the hand motions that go with the song.

Word of the day:

Cup "Cu"
Cracker "Cra"

Mischief and trouble...

Elnorra went down for her quiet time quite nicely, except that she didn't really go down, in fact she woke up her sister and took her out of the crib and started playing with her.

Dilly was outside playing and decided that a cactus looked like a nice thing to touch. She's already woken up several times in the night to voice her discomfort.

I have used tweezers and scotch tape, and I'm sure I've improved the situation, but I just read a medical journal online (http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol7num2/unknown/cholla/cholla2.html) that says that tape can make the situation worse by only breaking off the top, not removing the barb. This article recommends removing the tiny cacti spines is to first use tweezers and then use Elmer's glue, let dry completely and then peel off. Now that's a good idea, but just how am I going to keep a 19 month old still long enough for the stuff to dry? Sneak up on her while she's sleeping and wake up to find it in her hair an everywhere else she's flopped! Trust me she moves a lot when sleeping.

Dilly's words of the day:
Dog
Cat

Dilly's Word of the Day:
"Boon" Baloon

Phrase of the day (Dilly)
Tha i "there it is"

Word of the day (Dilly)
Oh-oh

Phrase of the day (Elnorra)
"What can I do to help?"

Dilly's finally talking. She's been babbling for a long time and has used her favorite syllable "that" as her all purpose word/sound for many months. Today she finally repeated after me: say momma "mommy" then say daddy "ba-ba". Ah ha! The light of comprehension has been lit. Or she's just willing to lower her intellectual standards to finally humor her parents. Within the last week she's been saying Mommy, Ba-Ba/Da-da/Daddy as well as "owwie", dog and cat, but refused to repeat to let us know she's really comprehending and deliberately saying things. With her hand in a splint I though I even heard her her say "owwie mommy" ...

I'm excited that mommy is the first "official repeat after me word" as Elnorra took over a year of talking before she said "mom" in any variety!

1-2-3-4-5-8-11

Learning to count. Elnorra has a lot of fun singing numbers, she has 1 to 5 down and then skips to 8 and then goes to 11. Repeating 8-11 as her favorite combination. She also throws in an occasional 82.

She's almost grown out of saying eleven-teen. But it's so cute I have to mention that it was a common occurrence for a couple of months.

The vicissitudes of life

First trip to the Urgent Care

Our first medical trauma. Friday night, seemingly without any cause Cordelia started crying and holding her wrist. When she still seemed to be in real pain after dinner and a snuggle with mama we figured that she was probably hurt badly enough to warrant a trip to the urgent care. We took her and they thought it was probably a fractured wrist! Well, we have been keeping it in this splint and icing it often. She has had some bad swelling and pain but now, two weeks later, it is beginning to seem comfortable again. Her pediatrician said that he cannot confirm an actual fracture, which is good news I suppose but now we are just playing it by ear and trying to encourage her to go easy on it. Here is a picture of her napping (the only time lately she can hold still) with her splint.

Cordelia's first hair cut! Just a trim of the bangs to keep her hair out of her eyes.

Glass-Glasses

Dilly does not yet have any words, but really understands a lot of what is going on. Today Grandee wanted to know if she liked the new drinking glasses she bought. She asked Dilly about the glass and Dilly immediately pointed to Grandee's reading glasses. Well at least she's making a connection. This reminds of the time when Elnorra brought me a straw when I was talking about STRAWberries.

Quiet time, Jaden's mommy and Sweet Sisters.

Sisters!

The girls "reading" together.

Adorable Elnorra about 3 1/2 years old.

Dilly in the cupboard.

Elnorra's such a big girl. She made us dinner all by herself-Peanut butter and jelly. Thanks a million, mom and dad had collapsed and really needed food!

Silly Dilly sucking her toe.

Dilly playing in grampa Ken's front yard, Flagstaff, AZ

At the Tucson Zoo-Dilly starting to walk

Dilly took her first steps today!

Video

Dilly's first steps.

ben's favorite childhood toy "baby bunny" and Elnorra dressed up in the bunny suit our friend Anne made for her.

Dilly can stand all by her self!

Dilly-Lilly

Mexico "over-the-border" trip with Uncle Joe. forgot our passports, even though we have them and there has been such media attention about needeing them to walk across the border now. Fortunatly they let us back in anyway. Now I carry them with me just in case. (Living just a 45 minute drive north of the border it's actually probable that we will "just happen" to go.)

Dilly's first birthday cake.

Cordelia turns 1. Measured on the family wall.

Dilly's First Birthday! We went out to breakfast with Grandee. She was given a little baby doll and can give such cute hugs to all, especially the little dolly!

Dilly trying to help. Gee, Thanks for trying...to bad it's so germy!

What a cutie!

Happy Dilly, Silly Sleeping Dilly

The girls love to help clean out the dishwasher.

Small victories!

Dilly is learning to blow her nose! She's really tring to figure out how to imitate mom and Elnorra when we say "blow", half the tme she blows through her mouth, but I expect she's going to figure it out before she's 1 in a few weeks!

 

Helpful girls

Fashion Statement!

Elnorra is usually good about picking her own clothes (especially for a 3.1 year old), but today she was so cute in the odd way. She wore a heavy Christmas colored sweater and a lightweight "skort" type short set in Spring pastels! Each time she used the potty the short/skirt got turned around. It's on backwards in these pictures. At least she got dressed today, unlike yesterday when she wouldn't pick out her own clothes and mom and Dilly were to sick to dress her, she ran around in PJ's or undies only!


Dilly's now 11 months old, and apparently small as she is ranked 13% for her age. She is often very smiley and loves to play peek-a-boo. Her hair is beginning to look red enough to count (yea!) and she loves to stand. She's been "cruising" along furniture and pulling up on anything that she can reach for months, but still isn't really interested in walking. She has that same power scoot/crawl that Elnorra did. She still has only the two teeth that came in at 7 months.

Elnorra 3years 1 month old, Cordelia "Dilly" 11 months old on the 4th of March 2008

The coolest high chair I have ever seen, especially in a restaurant. A standard high chair, a school table and a rocking "ship". Very clever, I want one!

Happy 3rd birthday Elnorra! She turned 3 on Tuesday the 4th of Feb but we had a tea party on Saturday the 9th. Her guests were "friend Eryn" and mom, Judy McClellan, Aunt Emily, Cousin Kelsey and Grandee.

Elnorra's 3rd birthday party.