Cordelia has a cold.  Boo. :(

This morning we read a 61 page nursery rhyme book with Cordelia during breakfast.

Now she is playing with her wooden barn that she loves.  She has the horse and sheep, both of which have hooves, painted black.  Then she picks up the pig and makes it come over to the sheep and horse, saying "Need. Shoes.  Need. Shoes."  The pig is solid color, so its hooves are not black.

Then she makes the sheep and pig face away from the horse, saying "Go bye-bye.  Go bye-bye"

My Lambie

I call Cordelia my little lamb more than I call her a little bear these days.  I pick her up and cuddle her and say "Hi lambie." She had a super snugly day with me yesterday.  I just have to cover her in kisses.  She says, "Mama Home!"  and I am glad to be there!

She is still nursing a little bit.  For a couple days she had no milk or just a little milk, once.  She likes it more when she is tired and hasn't napped well.  When I am home on weekends, she seems less into it.  But then, yesterday, I was sitting with her in the reading chair and we started doing rock a bye baby.  And I had to rock her and rock her and she really snuggled in deep, not like she usually does when she is rocked, enjoying it more as a fun ride.  She was a little baby, wanting closeness to her mama again, and asked for milk.  It was really, really sweet and even if our BF days are becoming fewer, she will always be my little lambie and I'm glad we could have this special part of our relationship for as long as we did.  It was my super mommy power.  Even though Cordelia still calls herself Baby, she is turning into a Big Kid.  She repeated "Big Kid!" after dinner tonight.  And so we grow up!

Cordelia really liked me singing Rockin' Robin today.  In the bath, she tries to say "Captain Ahab" and "Mac"  She makes them sit in their boat, and the holes for their figures are alternatively their potties or food bowls for the bath toy dogs I got her.  LOL.

Happy Valentine's Day

Cordelia's 2nd Valentine's Day.  Last year, we were getting ready to move the following day, so we did not even celebrate other than to dress C up in an outfit, that I think her diaper leaked on and she had to be changed.  Now we are all settled and happily living in our place.

Mom-mom, and Aunties A and R are visiting us for the long weekend.  We took Cordelia to the wonderful park.  She had fun.  We read her lots of books.  We watched the "Cordelia show" on the baby monitor, as she talked endlessly to herself before falling asleep to nap.

A momentous day… Cordelia did not have any breastmilk at all.  Usually she has some when she wakes up, but today she just wanted to read books and then go have pancakes.  This evening, my folks did the baby sitting, which they offered to do so that Jason and I could go on a date.  We had Thai food and went to the movies and saw Birdman.  My mom sang Cordelia some Gershwin songs and put her to bed.  Apparently she asked when we were coming home but was very good for Mom-Mom, except when she needed her teeth brushed.  So no Na in the morning or at night. This was the first time in her whole life.  My little baby is growing into a big girl!!!!  Everyday she just keeps getting bigger.

I love you, my little Valentine!

Rainy Day

It is a very rainy day, which is good as we have had little rain in this drought.  But it has been pouring so much that we couldn't go outside until the afternoon.  I put her in her blue rain boots and her light yellow raincoat.  It has some butterflies on it.  I got it at the thrift store for $3!  It was her first time wearing it.  Even though it was not raining, she was good about keeping her hood up.  She called it her hat.  We walked down the street.  It wasn't too cold, but a bit of a chilly wind.

We stepping in some puddles and did a little splashing.  We saw the cat Tucker out by his house.  He meowed and followed us a bit.

In a deep puddle, I saw a worm.  I moved it out of the water so Cordelia could see it.  She said, "Snake! Snake!"  I told her it was a worm and she said "Hi," and "worm"  and gave it a little wave.  SO ADORABLE, I melted.

On the way back we saw a rainbow.  Cordelia said "Rain bow."  Then she touched her hair bows.  I think she saw it, as I tried pointing to the clouds and sky, but it was a little hard to tell.

We checked in at her new play home and saw a baby snail.  Cordelia seemed a little unsure, so I quoted her "Over in the Garden" book, which has a page about snails.  She seemed to accept it and also said "Hi." to the snail.

Cordelia has asked me to read "Hush Little Baby" (the natural version) a lot of times.  She says "Hush baby" and is already filling in words.  I wonder if she remembers when I would sing it before she was born.

Cordelia has a baby farm animal book.  On one page, the chicks tell the ducklings that their mother hen told them they couldn't go for a swim in the water.  We were just reading her 100 First Words book and and the farm animal page, we connected it to the other book.  Cordelia said, "Chicks no swim.  Ducks yes swim."

Cordelia has been having some small tantrums lately when she is told no.  She is usually very well behaved so we don't have to tell her no often.  Other times, I am able to positively redirect her to something else, wanting to save No for really important things.  But I am noticing she is starting to have a very hard time accepting no in the moment.  She cries very hard and lies down on the floor, sometimes turning into screaming.  Ah, toddlerhood.  I think we are going to work on telling her no a bit more often, just to be clearer with our limit setting.  I think it is important that she be able to accept no a little better, but then she is used to Dada letting her climb on the coffee table. :P

You Are My Sunshine

As I've mentioned, Cordelia loves to fill in the blanks if you leave out key words of songs or books, typically the last word in the line.  But the other night she recited a bit: "You are My Sunshine.  My Only Sunshine."  Jason and I were amazed!

She sings the ABCs and counts to ten, with some prompts/fill ins.  If you say one, she says two.  If you say two, she says three and so on in order.  I know it it only rote memorization, but it is still exciting.  

She has enough hair to make two pigtails now.  If you mention them, she will reach up to feel her hair and say, "Pig. Tail.  Pig. Tail."  It is very cute.

The other day as we got our of the car we heard a train.  "Baby hear train!"  Then a car beeped.  "Baby hear car!"  I asked her at dinner and she remembered what she heard.

She visited Prairie's house and reported on the animals seen: "Honey. Cat. Jack. Mouse." Judy told me she thought C says hi to her, but then realizes she is saying Honey to their dog.

She loves to play outside and go on her walks.  We go on daily walks, sometimes twice a day.  She goes to the door and says "Out. Side.  Out. Side."

It's late, time for bed!  I love to hear her words!