I remembered what I wanted to write about last night that I couldn’t remember.  Talia and her friend were sitting in the back of the car on the way to the beach on Sunday and they were talking a mile a minute in…. Hebrew!!  It was so cute.  Every so often Ben would offer up a comment on whatever they were talking about as well but we were really getting such a kick out of it.  Then, tonight she asked Eric if she left one of her clafs in his office.  He asked her what kind of claf, the kind in a mezuazah?  She couldn’t think of the word for claf in English.  Turns out she was looking for a playing card that she was doing card tricks with and thought she might have left it in Eric’s office but couldn’t think of the word for it.

So today was a pretty easy day on the parenting front.  The kids went to school and Keren and I went to Kiriat Sefer to go get my blood work done, finally.  She was in a great mood, actually and she was adorable in the waiting room.  We got it done in no time at all and then I took her to the playground for a half hour.  It was about 90 degrees here today and we couldn’t spend much more time than that outdoors without melting.

Ben had his baking chug and then went to a friend’s house after that and Talia went to a friend’s house after school so I had a whole day with just Keren.  We took her to lunch at the local falafel place since we haven’t done that in a while and I was in the mood for falafel.  She had the chips for lunch and wouldn’t go near anything else, unfortunately.  We came home and Eric ran out to get the badge that goes along with his rent-a-cop uniform.  Yes, it just keeps getting worse, he now has a badge that says his name and it says volunteer next to it!  Oy!

So Keren and I hung out until it was time to get the kids from their play dates.   We had a doctor’s appointment for her to go over the results of her blood test that she took as part of her one year checkup.  Unfortunately, her numbers were  a little off which is most probably b/c she was fighting an ear infection at the time and now we have to go and repeat the test.  So that means more screaming from her!  I am not looking forward to it AT ALL!!  The good news is that the doctor checked her ears and she is fine.  The infection went away and she is good to fly.

Eric made a great tuna steak for dinner tonight.  We are slowly but surely getting rid of all the food in our freezer before we go!  So I fed the kids and got them ready for bed and read them a book and tucked them in.  Talia and I did some homework in her room after I got Keren in.  She insists on staying up in her room until 8 b/c she says that’s when most of her friends go to sleep.  Lately she’s been doing work in her room.  Tonight I told her that if she waited for me to nurse Keren and put her to sleep, that I would then help her with her work.  So we did some work together in peace and quiet without the other kids bothering us and then she went to sleep.