The other night when Jonah ate all his dinner...Ava did not. Bummer.

My sister April, who is fluent in 15 languages, including Spanish and 3 dialects of Farsi, was talking to Ava and said: donde esta?
Jonah, playing on his gameboy, stopped and said: I didn't know you spoke Spanish.
April replied: poquito
Jonah: do you know what this means, "Who art thou?"
April: I didn't know you spoke Spanish, too....


Yesterday Ava said to me: I can't WAIT for this baby to be born so we can see what she looks like!

Last week when Jon and I had the flu, our friend Elisha Jenkins offered to take care of Ava for the day (Jonah was at school). Much to Ava's delight, they went to "Burger-Bille" for lunch and then ended up at the Children's Museum. Ava had a blast, thanks Elisha!!

Continuing the Jonah Gallery:
Lego Ferrari
















The best Daddy in the world!

The other day Ava had the flu (then we all got it!). I was trying to keep our stir-crazy boy busy and let him take some pictures. Here is the Jonah Gallery:
We call this one "Overexposed"














Self-portrait













Let there be light!












Self-portrait numero dos

Well, here I am folks! (In all my glory! haha) Just 4 or 5 weeks left to go and counting. We were a bit concerned because Monday the baby was sideways, but we had an ultrasound today and she is head-down and ready to go (as long as she stays that way!). I got a really amazing look at her today through the ultrasound--she looked just like Jonah! I wish I could figure out our scanner so I could post the picture, but we will all meet her soon enough, I guess...well, maybe not soon enough for me! :)

For those of you who have seen the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," here is Ava's rendition of the bad guys coming out of the ocean (they were trying to be sneaky and look like they were in a tube thing from a ship).

Jonah woke up crying the other night: Mommy, I had a bad dream!
Elisabeth, rolling over, groggily looks at clock, it's 1:46am: What? Jonah, climb up--what was your dream about?
Jonah, still crying: I was the only one in the whole world who had a monkey tail!
Elisabeth, waking up more: A monkey tail?
Jonah, starting to panic now: Pray! Pray to Jesus that I don't grow one!

First tooth update:
The tooth fairy brought Jonah a dollar and put it under his pillow Friday night. I was so paranoid that Jonah's little tooth would get lost under said pillow that I had him put it in his little "First Tooth" silver box first. The next morning Jonah came running in to our room, early, I might add: "Momma! The Tooth Fairy took the whole box!"
Then when the box didn't reappear under his pillow on Sunday morning he went to church and told his whole Sunday School class about how the Tooth Fairy took his little box! Luckily she brought it back the next night and it is safely stowed away with his tooth inside for posterity to behold...

I caught Ava playing Mommy with her dollies yesterday: "OK, you eat, you eat, you eat, you eat (going in a circle). Now you play, you play, you play, you play." Do I really sound like that?! So bossy! haha















And here she is posing with all her babes (the one on the left in the red overalls might look familiar to my fam--my mom made me MJ when I was little--I named him after my dad). The funny thing is, Ava has never been interested in playing dolls and I was starting to wonder...especially with the new baby coming, but she is All Mommy now! She keeps stealing the little baby clothes I have washed and folded for our new baby and dressing her babies up in them.

Jonah lost his first tooth tonight while eating pizza!! He bit in, felt it pop, and it was hanging there, so Daddy grabbed it and out it came. He was so excited! What a big boy. 

Papa Mel with baby Norah. Ava said, "There's Papa Mel in his BLACK outfit. Is he wearing his buggy shirt?"
Jayden with his new baby sister.
The Busch family with the newest addition, Norah Renee, born yesterday at 3:20pm. Ava saw this pic and said, "Auntie Jamie is holding TWO babies!" 

Sunday Night Snuggling on the couch (and of course, watching Star Wars).
BTW--my sis had her baby today! She had a girl--Norah Renee. :) The countdown to Baby Brawley is now officially on. Only 8-9 weeks left! 

Ava and I went to Petite Provence, my new favorite French Bakery and Restaurant to get a special treat today. Little girl with a BIG cinnamon roll!


This one's my fav! 

Our world covered in about 3 inches of snow --check out the side steps to the porch--Just one big ramp of snow. This snow isn't going anywhere for a while...it's only supposed to be 36 today and perhaps some freezing rain or more snow tonight. Portland shuts down with this much snow: schools and businesses close, we couldn't even get a gas delivery yesterday, and last night tried two different Red Robin's to eat dinner (the kids love Red Robin) which were both closed...we just aren't used to having snow! (But it's really fun when we do) 

E with kids--it's still snowing! Ava's eating snow ("I'm hungry for snow!")
Ava trying to catch a snowflake on Daddy's shoulder's...out for a walk...













Jonah watching some sledders...













The side/rear view of our house and yard covered in a new blanket of white. 

Snow in Portland! It started snowing in the early morning and stopped by 8 am, then the sun came out and the wind was calm, so Ava and I decided to walk down to our friends Tonya and Jolie's house.

Jonah and Ava playing--Ava is eating snow--hopefully it's white! 

Jon's still smiling after working ALL DAY to install our new dishwasher! He had to drill under the existing cabinets to allow the hoses to get to the water line, and installed a new electrical outlet for the washer as well. No more rolling our old "Dishy" around, as we called her. In fact, we already sold her on Craiglist! This was our anniversary present to ourselves and I'm so blessed to have such a handy husband who really enjoys doing these kinds of projects for us. Now we just need to get "crackin" on the rest of the kitchen!