How do you say that again in English?

Here are the pictures of Talia’s siddur party that we took on Sunday:

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Let me back up to yesterday first.  Nothing too eventful.  Ben had a friend after school.  I was pretty busy with them.  At one point Ben was explaining something that he did in school and he said the word  ז ית and when I asked him how to say it in English he couldn’t think of the word olive!!  Talia had to help him.  He is losing his English already?!!  Time to get him started on those English lessons!

I think I mentioned that we went out last night to this show.  There wasn’t much to tell.  It was a show in which the actors were both deaf and blind.  It was interesting to see how they interacted using sign language and holding hands to feel the signs that they were using.  It was, however, kind of depressing sitting there and watching it.  Afterwards the audience was invited up on the stage to talk to them but I had no desire to go up there and we just booked.  I was also tired.

This morning, after sleeping through the night without crying (we are on an every-other-night schedule) Keren woke up around 6.  I went down to feed her and then got back into bed.  At 7 the alarm clock rang and I was surprised that Ben hadn’t come up before then b/c he was up at 6 when I went down to nurse and I told him to go back to sleep.  Anyway, I turned off the alarm and closed my eyes for a few minutes.  Next thing I knew it was 7:20 and Keren was up and making noise and we were late!!  I went down and Talia and Ben were still asleep.   So I got Keren dressed and made some noise downstairs and the two of them came down and we rushed through breakfast, which wasn’t so easy b/c of course Ben chose today to want choc. chip pancakes and I didn’t have the heart to tell him we didn’t have enough time, and ran out to school.  I actually took Talia first and came back for Ben since he wasn’t ready.

At 9:30 I went off to my book club meeting.  It is the first of many to come.  I joined this book club a while ago but this was the first meeting I could go to since I wasn’t in ulpan this week.  I have been reading the books that they are reading but just didn’t get to the meetings.  I met 2 new people so that was great and the house that the meeting is in is beautiful.  It was really a lot of fun!  Oh, and she served Dunkin’ Donuts coffee so that was GREAT!

After that I stopped at the baby store here called Shilav to pick up a gift for my cousin’s baby and to the candy store to get some chocolate for my cousin and then I went to visit her in Petach Tikvah at the hospital.  I got to hold the baby for a long time and hear the war story (it wasn’t so much of a war story as a peace story since the baby popped out after a measly 2 pushes, whatever!!!) and spend some time there.

I got back home at 2:30 and I saw some of Ben’s friends in the park next to my house.  So he went out to play with them and I talked to the mother who was with them (they have a playgroup that rotates) for a while.  Then I took Ben to his friend’s house for a playdate.  Next I picked Talia up from school and took her to the fruit store and the little mini market next to the fruit store to stock the house before Shabbat since we are having 2 couples for lunch.

Talia and Ben each had a very nice day today.  Ben came home dressed as a doctor and Talia, who had to bring in a wig and a musical instrument, came home with a big smile painted onto her face (literally with red face paint) and both said that the boys came to their schools dancing and singing.  Eric said that he saw them in the streets singing and dancing (for Adar).  Talia also said that she went from class to class singing an dancing as well. 

Here are two pics of Talia and Keren.  Notice the red paint on Keren’s nose as well:

Talia and I did some homework after the fruit store and then we too Keren for a walk and picked up Ben at his friend’s house.  The babysitter was very impressed that he is only in the country for 6 months.  The boys were playing in Hebrew and she didn’t even realize he was American, apparently.  The we walked to Robin’s house to pick up a chayal costume for Ben and then we went to Channah’s house to get a costume for Talia.  She took a couple costumes and will either be a bumble bee or a rock star, depending on her mood that day.  She might even wind up in both costumes.  I also got some bunny ears for Keren…

We didn’t get home until 6 and Keren was miserable b/c she was so hungry.  So I fed the kids quickly and after a pretty stressful hour and half I had them all in bed and asleep.

Eric just came home from his rent-a-cop class where he took his final exam in which the teacher apparently helped give them the answers and it was a group effort.  He also said, get this, this is the best part, are you ready?  that is is going to be stationed in front of the school during dismissal helping to move the cars along.  So now I call him a traffic cop.  He is my rent-a-cop traffic cop!!  And I ask this question:  Could I have married a bigger dork??  I LOVE YOU, ERIC!!