Korkers

Ava is modeling the first korker I made for her. She is getting to the point where, if she doesn't want to wear it then she won't. She pulls many fashionable hair accessories off her head. One day she will learn to LOVE them.

 

Juniper update

Our juniper bushes are about 1/3 of the way gone. And this is probably as far as they will get before it becomes to cold to cut at the retchid bushes.

 

Silverwood

Back in August, Gritman took ALL its employees for a fun day at Silverwood. Unfortunately I was working, so we missed the hot, overcrowded day at Silverwood. But fortunately, they gave those working tickets to use anytime for the rest of the open season. So we got a free, fun day at Silverwood. It wasn't hot, or crowded and all the souvenirs were 50% off because we went the second to last weekend it was open. We had a BLAST!

Noah was forced to be a brave, big boy and ride on the helicopters and airplanes by himself, since Andy and I were too tall to ride. He loved it!! And by the end of the day, had figured out the levers to make the helicopter and planes go up and down.

 

Andy and Noah, did most of the stuff together. They went on the train roller coster, a giant swing, shot balls at the mini tanks, and shot water at people in the bumper boats.

Ava and I were connected all day, by choice I might add. She hung out in the front pack and just watched everything. I am not big into rides, so we just watched. We did go on a train ride (the four of us) and Ava cried for quite a bit of it. She was tired and instantly woke up when we boarded the train. But for her lack on sleep was a very good baby.

 

Thank you Gritman!! We had a great day!!

Back to Belly

Today the kids and I were over at Crystal's house. Ava was laying on the floor, while the rest of us were eating lunch, and suddenly she rolled over and was on her belly. I let her stay that way to see if she would roll from her belly onto her back again. She didn't. She just got very mad that she was on her belly and started screaming. It may be a while before she doesn't that again. She now has the potential to be a mover if she choses. We may be in trouble!!

5 months old

Ava is 5 months old. She is such a sweet, and happy girl!! Ava weighs 13 lbs. 8 oz. and is 24 1/4 inches long (very petite for her age). She smiles all the time. She is quite the little vocalist; she coos, sings, and squeals. There is nothing better! Ava is facinated with her hands, she stares at them when she is laying on the floor or in her chair at the table. This month she tried rice cereal, and is becoming interested in toys. Her first top knot was attempted this month and is now my favorite hairdo. She is growing up so fast!!

 

Mikey doesn't like it!

Ava has decided the rice cereal is nasty. She will open her mouth for bites, but frequently gags, shivers, and spits out her daily few bites of rice cereal. She will be so excited when she is allowed to eat something else!!

 

Cindy Lou Who

Ava is sporting a pretty amusing hairdo these days. She has some hair right on the top of her head (all of which is pretty long), a tuft where her pony tail is, and another tuft at the base of her neck, And bald on the sides. Part of me wants to shave her silly do, but I can't, and now that I can do pony tails. She is just going to have to sport wild hair. She is still adorable, even though she is lacking evenly spread hair!!!

 

What a day!

I worked the night before, so I slept most of the day. But once I woke up and found out I was able to be on-call, we had a great evening. Ava got to try rice cereal for the first time. I kept waiting for the "that's gross stuff mom" look, but it never came. She liked it, she just just very good a eating it. Instead of opening her mouth she trys to suck it off the spoon. More practice and she will be a chow hound, just like her brother was with baby food.

 

Andy put air in our clearance inflatable whale pool. When we read the box, it says 8 foot whale, well it is 8 feet including the head and tail, but there is only about 4 feet of actual pool. Oh well, Noah enjoyed himself. I got in too, but it was too cold, to stay in for long.

 

Noah won this t-shirt in a wet t-shirt contest, a little too big. But he will grow into it. He was dancing around, singing, and directing to our "Tangled" soundtrack.

 

I love the fun evenings we spend together!!!

Labor Day Weekend Campout

Over Labor Day Weekend we went out to Laird Park with Andy's parents and sister, Crystal and Family. We had a wonderful time together. Much cooler than our campout 2 weeks ago. We stayed pretty busy while out. Who has time to relax when you have a 4 1/2 month old, (2) 3 year olds, and a 5 1/2 year old?

Getting ready to head out camping on Friday night.

 

 

Saturday morning, Papa took the kids for a short ride.

 

Ava playing and being cute.

 

The kids and Andy went swimming in the reservoir. I heard the water was freezing! Noah got in long enough to swim to Andy and swim back to shore. Eric and Sophia LOVED it!

 

The swimmers return to camp.

 

Noah LOVED playing with Eric's monster trucks!

 

The kids LOVED playing and climbing all over the 4-wheeler even if they weren't going for rides!

 

We had a great campfire on Saturday night, with s'mores and visiting. Andy was tired so he went to bed early.

The story behind the pictures. There was a rope sitting on the table, and Sophia asked what it was for. Papa told her it was for tying up little girls. Well she belived him and wanted to get tied up. Papa left camp for a little bit and Sophia was ready to be tied up, so Andy tied her up. She LOVED being up in the tree. And even though the rope was digging into places it shouldn't have been, she didn't want to get down. Finally Crystal had to make her get down.

 

Andy, Noah, and Sophia in the hammock!

 

Andy, I, Noah, and Sophia, walked the loop. Ava rode around obviously. For the first 1/4 of the walk, Noah and Soph took turns riding on Andy's shoulders. Finally they were done with that and both decided they could walk. They kept up with Andy and I really well. We had some pretty interesting conversations with the Noah and Sophia while walking, like the rectangular trees, and "water gators" (water skippers).We had a great time.

 

Once we got back to camp we had hotdogs for lunch, the Tibbals family came to join us and brought their giant great dane puppy winston, who is the cutest dog I have ever seen. Now that means a lot coming from me, because I don't like dogs at all. We had char sui pork for sunday night dinner and had a great time around the campfire eating s'mores and visiting.

A great time was had by all!! Except for Ava who was tired all weekend because she wouldn't sleep longer than 1/2 an hour at a time.

ENT visit

We went up to Spokane for a visit to the ENT dr. It was a pretty uneventful. I was telling the dr. about her cough and wheeze, and then the pulmonologists comment about her cough sounding like she has laryngomalacia. In order to rule that out, he put a camera down her nose to look at her throat. Ava HATED it! She was one ticked off girl when we were done. Good news is, she doesn't have laryngomalacia. So back to square one...why does she cough? why does she wheeze?