No dining room chairs… yet

Today we started out thinking we were going furniture shopping for some new dining room chairs.  In the end we got a call as we were leaving the yishuv from a friend who is looking to move to this new area that we are interested in.  She and the other couples were all getting together to discuss the land, etc.  So we wound up going there instead and making some decisions!

This afternoon the kids had their English chug and Talia had gymnastics.  I was really lazy today and let Ben and Eitan play on the Xbox while I didn’t do much.  Around 4, when it was time for Talia to go to English, I told Ben and Keren that I would take them to the park.  It was nice outside and I figured that the evening would stretch out and be boring if we didn’t get moving.  So we went and it was really great.  They actually took the nasty sand out of one of the sections of the park and replaced it with rubber.  Ben wound up riding his bike there, something he hasn’t done in a while and there was an older boy there riding his bike and they wound up following each other around for a while and really enjoying themselves together.  I was just glad that Ben didn’t get hurt trying to follow this boy and do some of the things he was doing, like going up on curbs and things like that.  Keren, in the meantime, was happy to be pushed on the swing and go up and down the slides.

Just a side note, Keren now loves The Wiggles.  She asks me to put it on all the time for her.  It is adorable.  She also stopped calling Ben “Talia” and now calls him something that sounds like “Boy”.  Something like that. 

Oh, and Talia got back her science test that she was very worried about taking and she got a 90 on it.  She wasn’t happy and said that most of the kids got 100 but when I looked at it the vocabulary was very difficult and I don’t know that I would have gotten much higher than a 90 myself!