Catching up on 3 months

This is going to be a mega-blog post. A lot has happened recently, all good news.

The family took a vacation to Florida in February. We saw Andi's mom Charlotte, and her great-aunt Ruth who is 98 and still going strong. Also saw Andi's sister Suzanne and husband Richard, and Andi's father Harvey & wife Judie. Then we took a trip, just the 4 of us, to Orlando to Disney World.

In March we celebrated Andi's birthday, and at the end of the month we drove down to LA for Passover with the Levinson-Mirell family. There was a special guest, a camel! Ariella sang the four questions in front of 50 people, while we kvelled. We also had a good time seeing lots of old friends.

Rick's mom Nancy and stepfather Ron came for a visit to Palo Alto. Rick also flew to Atlanta to surprise his dad for his 65th birthday.

Andi's mom came for a wonderful mother's day visit, and now Ariella is about to enter her last two weeks of preschool before the summer. This summer she has a dance class, a swimming class, and summer camp at the JCC. Ariella is a delightful little girl. At Disney World, she met both Ariel the mermaid and Belle (from Beauty and the Beast), and for the past three months, everything has been about princesses.

Meanwhile, Jonah turned nine months old, and the next day basically started crawling. He is 71% for height (2 ft, 4 in.), and 53% for weight (20.75 lbs). His head circumference continues to be off the charts. As you will see from the pictures, he is eating everything, including spaghetti w/ meat sauce (see last pic). He says 4 words, "mama," "dada," "baba (for bottle)," and "nahnah (for night-night)." He also waves and smiles. He smiles all the time.

That's where we are. No big trips planned yet for the summer, but we're thinking about some possibilities.

So we have so many pictures we hardly knew where to start, but here are the best of the last 3 months:

Andi and Great-Aunt Ruth in Florida, February 2007

Aunt Suzy-Q and Ariella, Florida, February 2007

Four Generations, Florida, February 2007

Ariella and Andi with Nusbaum cousins Rebecca and Marci, Florida, February 2007

Gamma Charlotte and Jonah on Ft. Lauderdale Beach, February 2007

Instant connection between Great-Grandma Ruth & Jonah, February 2007 (Jonah at 7 mos)

Poppy & Jonah, Florida, February 2007

Poppy & Jonah, Florida, February 2007

The Magic Kingdom, DisneyWorld, February 2007

Shy Ariella and Ariel the Little Mermaid

Hugs from Belle

The best seat for the Disney Parade

Frenkel family at Disney World after long day

Pirates and Princesses at Purim, March 2007, Palo Alto

Galia, Hannah and Ariella at JCC Preschool Tsahov class Purim

Andi & Jonah, 3/5/07, Twins in duckie jammies

Andi's birthday, Caffe Riace, Palo Alto, 3/8/07

Cake for Andi's birthday party, March 2007, our house

Nurit, Julie, Andi and Amy

Ariella, Isabel, and Galia enjoy the cake

Jonah shows Abby his cool piano

Kids taking first bath together, March 2007

Off to LA for Passover, but first some time at Venice Beach.

Rick wore his Red Sox hat in honor of opening day...

Ariella and Andi, on Venice Beach, 4/1/07

Pesach at the Levinsons always brings something different!

And other farm animals too.

Frenkels, Passover, April 2, 2007

Ariella, this year with a speaking role in the Passover play!

Ariella with Sarah Breckner, April 3, 2007, LA

Jonah at 8 months, April 2007.

Jonah and Ariella, posing nicely for the camera.

Kids, 4/20/07.

Ariella with Grandma Nancy during her visit, April 2007.

Bedtime reading with Grandma and Grandpa

Celebrating Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israeli Indendence Day) at Palo Alto JCC Preschool, April 2007.

Gamma Charlotte babysat while visiting in May 2007 - thanks!

Gamma and Ariella, Mother's Day, May 2007, Los Altos, CA

The kids now entertain each other nicely (most of the time)

Frenkel family, Los Altos, CA, May 13, 2007

A delicious picture of Jonah, at nine months.

In Seale Park, near our home, May 17, 2007

We title this picture "I Love Spaghetti" - Jonah not only eats his food, he wears it.

Jonah's First Solid Food

Hi everyone! Love the new Blogger software - so much easier to use. Here are 5 pictures catching everyone up to present. Jonah turns 6 months old on Friday. These are some pics from the last month and a half.

Here we are at New Years' Eve, where we had a party with our friends.


Here are Ariella and Jonah at Jonah's 5-month mark, hamming it up for the camera.


Jonah loves cuddling with the beautiful pillow made for him by cousin Aimee Nosomowitz.


Ariella and Jonah on 2/1/07. Ariella continues to amaze us with how smart and perceptive she is. She now knows how to read all of her letters, upper case and lower case, and is working on a few words. For example, she can read the names of all of the kids in her preschool class. And she has developed a great sense of humor. Her latest joke: she asked, "if a doggy sees something really amazing, mommy, does he go bow-WOW?" She also said, at 3 1/2 years, "when i'm everything that i want to be, i can do it all!"


And here's Jonah, just after trying solid food for the first time, on 2/4/07. I think the caption should be, "wait a minute, so that's what this eating thing is all about. yum!"

Trip to Atlanta in December 2006

Time to catch up on all of the holiday pics. Had a very fun-filled and busy six days in Atlanta, seeing all of Rick's family. Here are the pictures, finally. Fast-forwarding to February 2007, Jonah has just started on solid food, so we'll have some good pictures of that to come shortly.

We continued Hanukkah at Papa Steve & Nana Donna's house.


Rick and Ariella, lighting candles.


We took Ariella to her first movie - Charlotte's Web!


Artists at work in the studio.


Rick and Jonah relaxing upstairs.


Good closeup of Jonah taken by Papa Steve.


Three generations of Frenkel men.


Nana and Papa had a whole lot of people over for the holidays. Here's Uncle Drew, cousin Nina, and Ariella.


Aunt Robin with Jonah.


Andi with Jonah, who is not happy in the hat.


Grandma Nancy with Ariella and Jonah.


Grandma Nancy, Nana Donna, and Jonah.


Off to Grandma Nancy & Grandpa Ron's, where Ariella rode a bike for the first time.


Andi & Jonah inside.


Grandpa Ron with Jonah.


Ariella, Jonah, and Cousin Nina.


Grandma Nancy and Jonah.


Grandma Nancy and Ariella cooking for the big dinner.


Great-grandma/Nanny Myril with Jonah, named after her late husband Joseph.


Grandma Nancy with Nanny.


Four generations of Mushlin/Kaplan/Frenkels.