Anka Vuletic

May 10, 1950 to Oct 25, 2007

God bless Anka and those she left behind.

We will miss her.

Hanna learns to jump

Check out our boy Everett. At 3 months he has outgrown all these clothes and now is on to 6-9 month clothing. He's gets angry about lying down sometimes and he lets us know he wants to sit up and look around. Here we get a proud momma moment the other morning.

We have been doing a lot of bike riding. We borrowed J's smaller two wheeler and Ella can start and stop it by herself. The girls go to gymnastic twice a week. We also get to the indoor swimming a couple of evenings a week.

Check out the jumping game Ella taught her sister Hanna.

The 2 Wheeler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe Ella at not quite 3.5 yrs old can ride a bike? We found the bike while doing a cruiser bike ride at HooDeeHoo's house a few weeks back when Kuyper was in town. I scrubbed the rust off and it cost me $13 to replace the chain and pedals. Tonight was Ella's first attempt and she took right too it. It was harder to get Anita outside to see her ride than to get Ella on the bike. I don't think Anita expected to see Ella riding this well. Given this we will get her a smaller bike so she can touch the ground and do it on her own.

Here the girls play in the kitchen and a few other photos of Everett.

Changing Plans

Hey folks, on major construction you sometimes get major delays. This is the current case in Israel and the new fab so we won't be coming back through Abq in a few weeks on our way to Israel. Looks like it will be late Nov or Dec before we make our move and stop in Abq but the exact date isn't known.

This week the rains have come and the temp dropped. The grass here actually grows faster in the cool fall and spring than it does in summer, what a crazy place. With the Portland dreary winter phase starting and the extension of our stay momma had to find something for the girls. Anita got them right into a gymnastics program the next day. They have been twice. Hopefully we can get some pics of that, Ella loves it!

Hanna is sick and had us in the ER again 2nd time in 2 weeks at 3am this time. She gets a cold and respiratory distress. Handling the inhaler on a toddler and getting her to take the medicine is elusive to us so we go to the ER for the nebulizer (vaporizer type) treatment. Apparently it is supper critical the timing of the spray and her inhalation even with the chamber. Imagine holding down a screaming kid who takes micro second inhales to make 15 second long exhales. Then kicking and twisting but keeping the mask on her timing the inhaler spray. The doc says sit on the floor legs out, lay her in between your legs with arms under your hamstrings and head squeezed in between. Ella doesn't like to watch the torcher of her sister. But she will be better, its all treatable.

Enjoy these pics of our trip to a park a few weeks back.