Ben rides!

So today was an exciting day, Ben learned how to ride a two-wheeler bike!!  I saw that he was riding his bike with his training wheels and that he really wasn’t using them much. I told him a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to take him riding on Talia’s bike (rather than taking his training wheels off and then having to perhaps put them back on again) but he was too chicken to come with me.  Finally today he agreed. So while Talia was at a birthday party and Eric was working, I took him with Talia’s bike to the basketball court that we have on the yishuv and basically gave him a little push and he was off!!  He can’t start or stop by himself but he can ride really really well.  He is confident on the bike (with his knee and elbow pads) and he turns really nicely – something that was a bit hard to teach Talia.

Keren is also almost at a milestone.  She was standing for a few seconds today.  Eric gave her something to hold and she let go of him for at least 3 seconds today.  Go Keren!!

For some reason all the bug zappers in our house have been breaking.   We had one that we borrowed and then we had one that we bought.  The bought one stopped working suddenly so we took out the borrowed one and now that one isn’t working (yikes, we need to give it back!!)  Before I put the kids in tonight we ran to the local hardware store and bought a new one.  I didn’t want to get stuck without one tonight since Eric said that he killed a huge mosquito today up in my room.  It felt like summer out today, I even let Ben wear short sleeves, and I guess the mosquitoes are living it up that there is no winter here this year so far.

We got a late invite out to lunch today from people here that I think we would be friends with in the future.  So I am looking forward to Shabbat lunch.  It also means another week of little cooking.  Yay.