Well, it’s over.  The last shabbat of our first year of aliyah!  It was kind of sad.  We are excited to be going to see our families and friends that we left behind but at the same time we don’t really want to leave!! 

Anyway, Friday we went to the pool when the kids came home from school.  Eric’s first time there!  It was extremely crowded.  We took Talia’s friend Natalie (pronounced Na-Ta-Lee) and the kids had a great time.

Today Talia brought home 2 friends and we were speaking Hebrew at the Shabbat table (won’t be doing that next week) and it was really nice.  The girls were hysterical.  They were putting on a show for us of what it’s like in school.  I learned today that the girls have to stand up every time their teachers come into the room. I thought that was nice.  So one of the girls did an imitation of the Americans.  She was sooo funny!  She did an imitation of an American speaking Hebrew.    So the kids played nicely and Eric and I had a very relaxing afternoon.   Keren left them alone for the most part and didn’t ruin any games that they were playing.  Ben played nicely with them.

We sent them all to the park at 4 and told just our kids to come home for dinner at 5:30.  They came home and gobbled down food before running back outside.  It was a very hot day today and we went through a ton of water.  Every time they came running back in their little faces got pinker and pinker.

Meanwhile, Keren has been walking all over the place!  She stands up and takes about 12-15 steps and then either loses her balance or plops back down.  She is too funny.  She is really getting into walking.  I can’t wait to take her for shoes next week.

At 6:30 tonight we were invited to a seudat shlishit bat mitzvah at the shul.  Ben and Keren came with us and sat with us.  It was nice. 

We found Talia and came home at 8 and the kids stayed up for havdallah, which was very exciting for them.  They were passed out in their beds about 30 seconds after we tucked them in!

We are supposed to be having this BBQ tomorrow night as a goodbye and we invited the family and they are dropping like flies.  They are all coming down with the same eye infection (I may have mentioned this before).  I am either going to be sending those that do come home with food for those that will not be able to make it or we’ll give it to the woman across the street that collects food for the poor.   We’ll see what’s left over.