I stayed around the house and Ken and Lorie visited Ben’s school and then Ken took a nap while Lorie had a delightful time shopping and then getting lost on her way home from the Taiwan Handicraft Market. I tried to clean house a bit and wasn’t felling very well but Ben called and we all agreed to meet at our favorite “fancy” restaurant. Just like Taco Bell is not real Mexican food, this place is the Asian version of American Food since it is called “Skylark: California Cuisine” but is very Asian in presentation and preparation (i.e. the chicken in their pot pie still has the skin and bones in the meat.) After we had our nice 5-course meal for about $12 USD each we then went to the “Wal-Mart” of Taiwan known as RT-mart and Ken and Lorie saw the fascinating Shopping Cart Escalators that are listed earlier in the blog.

This was a significant day for our family. 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.