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Celebrating Sianna

By Shorel & Sandra on July 24th, 2010

Today, we celebrated 6 months with Sianna.

Sianna is 14 months old. She has 6 teeth and weighs close to 20lbs. She is excellent at “cross crawling.” She’s only been crawling for two months, so we hope she will continue to crawl for as long as she wants.

Sianna also enjoys pulling up. She hasn’t yet started

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Life Together

By Shorel & Sandra on May 25th, 2010

05.22 – 05.25.10

05.22
The day after Sianna’s birthday, we took the kids downtown to play at a Jump Zone. After 8 weeks of living here, this was our first time to go to an indoor play area in Jiujiang.

Schäfer was so happy they had a coconut tree just like Play Zone in Yichang.

He’s a spinning coconut

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Happy 1st Birthday Sianna!

By Shorel & Sandra on May 21st, 2010

05.21.10
Happy 1st Birthday Sianna!

On the morning of the kids’ birthdays, I like to get a photo of them while they’re still in the crib. Sianna doesn’t like to be in her crib after she wakes up so I took her early morning photos on our bed.

Happy birthday baby girl!

For breakfast, we started the celebration with

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Grazing

By Shorel & Sandra on May 18th, 2010

05.15.10
Schäfer woke me up this morning with a loud “Moo! Moo!” When asked what he was wearing, he replied, “A cow bell.” (That would be a race car attached to his mouse ears.)

05.18.10
For quite some time, we’ve been offering Sianna small chunks of food that she can pick up herself. And for quite some time,

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Two Traumatic Teeth

By Shorel & Sandra on May 11th, 2010

05.11.10

Sianna is generally pretty happy. (Well, now that we know those things which can set her off.)

One of the things that Sianna does not like is any kind of rough handling or pain.

Enter teething.

This was the scene at our house the entire second week in May. Sianna had two bottom teeth cutting through. Nothing offered

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Early May Fun

By Shorel & Sandra on May 5th, 2010

05.02 – 05.05.10

Once the weather started to warm, we decided to ride our bikes over to a monument that is near our home. Yes, it looks like the Washington Monument, but this statue is in honor of the 1999 Yangtze River Flood Victims.

At the monument, there are four unique “houses”. Hubs would like to turn

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