Best Dad Award!

Daniel and Ava really are buddies. He is always playing whatever game it is she wants to play. Those two are always getting into some kind of fun. The other night Daniel came inside and said I had to come out and see this, Ava can do magic. I go outside and Ava tells me " watch Mom". Waving her fudge sickle around like a wand and saying bibbidi -bobbidi -boo she points it at the trunk of the car and the trunk pops open! She is grinning from ear to ear that she can do magic! Her Dad never lets her in on the secret that he had the automatic trunk opener in hand. He just lets her have her bit of magic. Well done Dad. : )

Allow me to introduce MR. M

There is a new man in the house. He's a blond haired, blue eyed dream boat. Mason Ryan Malmberg (aka MR. M) was born on Wednesday June 30th at 12:38 pm. He was 7.2lbs and 21 1/4" long. He is as sweet as it gets. Really a perfect baby. Eats and sleeps great. ( check back on the "sleeps great" in a few weeks) The delivery went great and we have both been recovering really well. Honestly I didn't know what I was missing not having a little boy. He has such a sweet and calming personality- I hope that stays because he and his sister would be polar opposites. Ava is doing well. She loves her brother and seems to only be taking out her animosity about the whole situation on her mom and Dad. She tells MR. M sweet things like " i love you brother, I'll protect you." and when you are bigger we can play and I'll tackle you" I am sure she will keep her promise to tackle him, hopefully she will keep the part of "when you are older"

Out of the mouth of Babes

Ava says a lot of funny things. I usually mean to write down and end up not. So before I forget here is a couple resent funnies from Ava Blue herself:

When I grow up-5/25/10

Today we went to story time at the library. Before reading a book call "When I grow up" the librarian asked the children what they want to be when they grow up. Ava promptly without needing anytime to think said " I want to be Cinderella"

My little helper is grossed out.
Ava- "Mom I will feed brother his bottles"
Mom- "Sometime you might be able to feed brother but when mommies grow babies in their tummies they have milk in the breasts, and that's how they feed their babies." "Does that makes sense, do you understand?"
Ava- "Yeah, but that's gross mom, don't do that!"

She already wants out of this house! Ava and I were having a day of differences to say the least. I was doing dishes and she was standing beside me. Determined to be contrary with her mother and me doing my best to ignore the behavior looks up at me and says in the sassiest voice you can imagine "Humph, someday my prince will come" pout pouts and sashays away in her dress up clothes from head to toe.

I love me a garage sale!

Nothing is better than a garage sale, except an entire community worth of Garage sales.
I found some pretty good loot today. Disney Movies, clothes for Ava and Mason. One of those big parachutes for kids- you know the kind that everyone has a handle and you throw your arms in the air then quickly back down again and you can all sit underneath it. CD player for Ava's room. Tools for Ava so she can finish "Becky's wall". (Whenever Daniel is in the shop working on the kitchen Ava goes out there to work too and there is this counter top that she says is Beckys wall She pounds away at it with hammers, put screws and nails into it, tapes it.) So anyway now she can have some of her own tools to work on things with Dad. Saving best for last is the Fisher-Price Nature's Touch Baby Papasan Cradle Swing! I went to one house that had it for 30 bucks, not bad since it costs 150 new. I stewed over it for at least 10 min then decided to get it. I paid the lady 30 bucks then instantly I had buyers remorse. But I have no shame I told her " I know this is really tacky but can I change my mind?" she said yes so got my money back and the next house I went to had it for 10 bucks and I offered 8 and SOLD! It is mine. Now that makes my day!

In the beggining...

This is the beggining. Of what I'm not sure yet. It is my first blog entry. I'm really not sure what I want to write about. My hopes for this is that I can document my families life so that all those day in and day out little wonders are captured. Finding the time for me to scrapbook is just not realistic, so I am using this as a way to journal and document the life of the Malmberg family etc. Now I just have to figure out how to make it cute like all the blogs I spend so much time admiring.

I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE

Ava singing I love to see the Temple

Ava has always asked me to take her in the temple. Sometimes we just walk around the grounds at the Temple in Bellevue and she hugs the statues on the grounds and asks me questions about whats inside. In fact one of her favorite songs is I love to see the Temple. Whenever we are driving through Eastgate she looks for Moroni and asks "how did he get up there?" When we had the opportunity to take her to the Vancouver B. C Temple before it was dedicated we just had to take her so that she could acutally go inside. It was a great trip with the family. We met up with Todd, Sally, Charla, Tyler, Amber and Lance.

A visit to Bellingham

We had a great trip to Bellingham in April. We met up with Unlce Lance and Aunt Amber at the beach for a little marine life discovery. Then we headed off to Vancouver to see the Temple.

Olympic Swimmer In The Making

Ava made great progress in swim class this year. She loved it and cant wait for more classes. She lays on her back, goes under water, reach and pulls, blows bubbles. All the important skills for an Olympic swimmer!

Hippity Hoppity Easter Egg Hunt

Easter egg hunt Sat morning at the North Bend Community Center. Ava took what she wanted then said she needed to leave the rest for the other kids, so kind : )