I miss Grandma!

 My Grandma, Louise, passed away today.... here she is in August with her three children, David, Trudi and Corrine (my mom!). We miss her!

We enjoyed spending time with Grandma when we were home in 2013. And Grandma enjoyed Jonathan! This is bath time! :)

Bananas anyone?

 This is our front porch... notice the HUGE stalk of bananas on the left! One of our yard workers found this banana stalk on one of the banana trees here on NTM's property so he hung them here for us to eat. 

Jonathan loves bananas! He has eaten three in one sitting before! We manged to eat them all, although some we made into banana muffins and banana peanut butter smoothies! :)

Helping Dad at work!

 Jacob helped put a new floor in this missionary house and refinished the floor... now you can't tell that it is made out of plywood! Jonathan loves to sweep, so he is helping Jacob clean up a bit. :)

 Doing some final touches.

Jonathan and the Kool-Aid man...

 When I cooked for the Interface students at Interface I always had Kool-aid on hand for them to drink. And we used a lot! So I saved the points on each package so that we could buy things with them. And so we had a Kool-aid man mascot in the Interface Kitchen. :)

And now he lives on, in the Devine household, Jonathan is enjoying him! :)

One lonely tomato!

We can't find any decent size or any good tasting tomatoes here in Wewak... so sometimes when friends come back from Goroka, they bring us gifts of tomatoes! We enjoyed toasted tomato and cheese sandwiches!

Beach!

We went to Wom beach for the first time with a bunch of other missionaries. It was a lot of fun. But at first Jonathan wasn't too sure what he thought about it.

But once he realized how much fun it was to play in the sand, he decided the ocean must be fun too!

Building sand castles with Dad!

And a friend found a star fish for Jonathan to take a look at....

Jonathan turns 17 months old!

 Jonathan is imitating his dad, by putting up his index finer and making a hissing noise, this is one thing that his dad does to train dogs. :)

 Helping mom roll out pizza dough for supper. :)

Nate came for a visit!

 Nate, friend and fellow chef, stopped in for a visit on his way to Madang. He is going to cook for the Interface team again this summer. But this year, it is being held at the NTM Center in Madang.

 We had a lot of fun going swimming in the local pool and going to the ocean!

 We even got our croquet set out for the first time!

 Jonathan even loved it!

Jonathan turns 16 months old!

 This is before his hair cut...

And this is after his hair cut! His second hair cut in his entire life! :)

Jacob's Birthday Celebration!

 We celebrated Jacob's 31st birthday with an ice cream cake! Coffee ice cream with a cookie crumb crust and chocolate sauce on top. Jacob and our guests enjoyed it!! But we weren't able to get a picture of Jacob blowing out the candles because it is so hot here that it was melting at lightening speed. We had to eat it fast! This picture was actually taken the next day! :)

 Jacob made me some mango ice cream with no sugar! Yumm!!

 Jonathan didn't like either type of ice cream, he just wanted to eat his bananas. :)

Jacob requested Lasagna for his birthday dinner. Jonathan loved it too!! We enjoyed having our co-workers, Bill and Jen over to celebrate!

This is how we do dishes in Wewak...

 Jonathan loves to help us with the dishes! And we love it because we can both do the dishes and get them done quickly!

Jonathan takes the dishes out of the rinse water and puts them on the side of the sink, or gives them to Dad. :)

Jonathan's room redone!

 Well, after almost a year, we finally were able to hang pictures and our own curtains in Jonathan's room! Jonathan's Nannie (Grandma) made the Noah's Ark latch hook. And that is surrounded by pictures of family. Hopefully Jonathan will know his family by name before even meeting them when we go home! And we were excited to finally hang up the cross that Hope Church gave us at Jonathan's dedication, right above Noah's Ark. :)

I found some airplane curtains for Jonathan's room because he loves airplanes! Jonathan's cousins, Jack and Zander colored the superhero posters for him when we saw them last... so they had to go on the wall as well. :)

Just hanging out...

 Recently some of our co-workers left PNG, and they left us this cute little bench for Jonathan. He sits on it when he wants us to put his shoes on so he can go outside. :) He also loves to pull out all the toys inside!

 Playing around with a hat that another missionary family gave us before they left.

Paula and Jonathan! :) Paula helps us around the house once a week, which enables me to work a few hours in the business office. She and Jonathan get along very well!

Mother's Day!

Jonathan brought me flowers for Mother's Day, with a little help from Dad. :)

 We took a family photo just before Mother's Day so we could send it to our Mothers. :)

Jack and Zander

 One afternoon Jonathan was eating his snack and he kept pointing over to the tv. Finally I figured out that he wanted to see the pictures of his cousins. So I gave it to him and he didn't want me to take it away.

 He kept smiling and looking at them. And then started to feed them crackers. :)

Jonathan turns 15 months old!

 Growing up fast - 15 months!!

He is full of laughter and smiles almost every day!