Words of the day:
Airplane
Bib
Backpack
Socks

Daddy Daughter Day

On 2/28 day we gave Windy the day off and had fun all over Taipei!

Word of the day:
Mine-the ever important possession marker, especially for a 2 year old!

Word of the day:
Chair

2007-02-24 Mom, baby (t minus 5 weeks) and Elnorra playing in the sand at night. Our neighbors took us to the north coast during the Chinese new year holiday.

Words of the day:
Outside
Boat
Lie Down

Words of the day:
Back
Bite

Word of the day:
Open

Phrase of the day:
I fall.

Words of the day:
Car
Food

Words of the day:
Girl
Light

Phrases of the day:
Where mo? (Where's the mouse?)
There's mo. (There's the mouse.)
These phrases apply to anything she sees in a book and knows. Mouse, moon and shoes being her all time favorites.

Words of the day:
Star
Door
Hat

Words of the day:
Cake
Spoon
Fork
Bowl
Book

Word of the day:
Moon

Elnorra brought me a straw. It took me about 10 minutes to figure out that it was because we were eating STRAWberries and I was empahsizing the word for her to learn, but she heard straw and obediently went to the counter and brought me a drinking straw. Ah, the joys of learning English!

Words of the day:
Ear
Mouth
Foot

Words of the day:
Stool
Eye
Duck
Mouse
Owl (this was mommy's second word and is mommy's favorite animial)

Words of the day:
Fish
Jesus

Word of the day:
Baby

2007-02-03 Elnorra's 2nd birthday party! She wore the same dress last year. But now it's time to put it away! She also wore the same Easter dress and Chinese New Year outfit this year as last year. She's now going through a growth spurt and I doubt I'll get a full year or more of use out of any other party clothes for many years to come.

2007-02-03 Elnorra's 2nd birthday cake.

Words of the day:
Nose
Jacket

2007-02-01 Jamming jammies. She didn't want to eat the toast, just the jam of the top!

Elnorra learned to open doors today. I first panicked and thought about getting doorknob covers, then a few days later I realized that I shouldn't panic and that I should be grateful for all the things she can do now. I can ask her to go wash her hands and she can: open the door, climb on her stool, turn on the water, use the soap, turn off the water, dry her hands and then close the door. She is an independent kid and is also a very careful child so I decided to trust that her intellectually maturity is growing along with her physical abilities. We, of course, still have the house mostly baby-proofed with chemicals and medicines out of her reach, but her "reach" just made it to the entire house instead of the controlled space she was in before.

Words of the day:
Butterfly "buff-fa"
Bannana

Word of the day:
More

Word of the day:
Up

Word of the day:
Down

2007-01-15 Our "big" little girl (nearly 2). She loves to wear hats now.

2007-01-12 Our future musician. She loves to "play" any piano that she can.

2007/01/06 Dad and Enorra out and about!

Word(s) of the day:
Cat
Bubbles

Vocabulary to date:
Bye-bye
Hello "hello-a"
Mama
Dada
Xie-Xie "shea-shea" Chinese for thank you
Ball
Shoes
Hat
Go
Out
Cheese
Tissue (sounds just like shoe)
Ball
Ouch/Ow

Jaden Ainsley, the new addition to help prepare Elnorra for our new addition in April!

Elnorra received a Cabbage Patch Kid named Jaden Ainsley for Christmas.

2006-12-22 Family picture aftermath. She was a napless hungry one. But she cheered up and this was such a cute picture with the one perfect tear drop.

2006 December 1 "Too tired" Elnorra wouldn't take a nap in her bed...but she was obviously tired!

2006-11-22 Ultra sound at 21 weeks. Though we suffered a miscarriage in May, we were greatly blessed to be pregnant again with in a few months. This pregnancy has been tougher than Elnorra's but all is well and we are looking forward to our new addition who is due to come on the 3rd of April, 2007. We don't want the doctor to tell us what we are having, but we both think that it's a boy.

2006 Halloween bat, cat and little witch

2006-10-23 Elnorra's first hair do, she normally won't let us play with her hair.

2006-10-19 Look, I'll actually wear a hat now!

2006-10-16 Elnorra snuggling with daddy and "Sugar" bear

2006-10-14 Elnorra 20 months old sprawled out

2006-10-13 Elnorra in dangly earrings, this didn't last long!

2006-10-04 Elnorra is ambidextrous (for now anyway)

2006-10-03 Elnorra walking in mommy's shoes

2006-07-22 Elnorra jamming out

2006-07-12 Elnorra's olive fingers, yummy and fun!

2006-06-20 Building blocks

2006-06-20 Building blocks

2006-06-20 Building blocks

2006-06-20 Building blocks-look at what I did!

2006-06-20 Building blocks-last one, they didn't even fall down on me!

2006-06-15 More fun with household items. Kleenex is so much fun to take out of the box! (P.S. I can reach stuff on the table now, can you tell?)

2006-06-14 Baking fun, I found mommy's measuring cup with flour in it.

2006-06-04 Elnorra in a basket (16 months old)

2006-06-03 New teddy bear

2006-05-28 Mommy shares when she cooks, yummy! In her $3 USD princess dress.

2006-05-18 Snoozing on dad

2006-05-13 Fans are fun!

Today was a sad and difficult day for us as Windy had a miscarriage and is no longer expecting a second child in November. Though we are very sad for our loss we also accept that the baby is gone and are greatful for Windy's renewed health and the doctor's "promise" that we will be able to have more children.

2006-05-02 Happy healthy baby Elnorra with mom

2005-04-08 Elnorra 9 weeks old

2006-04-18 Elnorra at 14 months old still fit into the same Easter dress as last year! She sure didn't want to sit still for the photo because she's a toddler on the go now!

Not only did Elnorra take her first step (and until April 10th her ONLY step with out assistance) as she stumbled into her dad’s arms at the restaurant. She said her first repeated and distinct word, bye-bye, which is accompanied with her Miss America wave and sounds like “bu-bu.” She also cut her first top tooth AND most significantly she was labeled “je-je” (older sister in Chinese) since we found out that she will be a big sister in November since we are now expecting our second child around November 17th.

2006-03-15 Elnorra's first stand

2006-03-15 Elnorra's first stand

2006-03-15 Elnorra's first stand

3 before 1

Elnorra was born just before the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2005 in the Year of the Monkey. Her 1st birthday was after the Chinese Lunar New Year in 2006 (Year of the Dog). The way Chinese people say their age is by the change of the lunar year and you start out at one. So when she was a few days old she “turned” two (the Year of the Rooster). Since her 1st birthday was after the Lunar New Year in 2006 she was three years old before she was one!

2006-02-05 More cake too, yummy!

2006-02-05 Spaghetti again, what fun and oh so messy!

2006-02-04 I'm full!

2006-02-04 Elnorra's first birthday cakes

2006-02-04 Elnorra's guests

2006-02-04 Elnorra's own little cake

2006-02-02 Elnorra, mom and antique Chinese baby cradle in the "water tower house" in Chiyi.

Elnorra is healthy and happy and loves to smile and babble. She still likes to walk along furnature but doesn't seem interested in walking on her own yet. She also loves food and gets quite upset if we are eating and don't share with her! It's amazing what those 2 little teeth can do!



2006-01-02 Elnorra 11 Months Old