So this morning was fun.  Ben decided that he would rummage through my medicine drawers and take out some of our Pepto Bismol and eat it!!  They are small, individually wrapped tablets that are pink in color (what else?) and I guess look really appealing because he ate one of them and then swore up and down that he didn’t.  Talia finally squeezed a confession out of him by telling him that I wasn’t mad (I was so mad!!) and that he wouldn’t get into trouble.   Once he finally confessed we scrambled to find out what an overdose of Pepto Bismol will do to you.  So he basically took 3 times what he was supposed to take.  I was downstairs with the kids and Eric was upstairs on the computer looking to see what to do.  He called me and said that he would get majorly constipated and that I needed to give him a bunch of prunes before sending him to school.  So as I was cutting one up and Ben was throwing a tantrum b/c he didn’t want to eat the prunes Eric called down again and said forget it, another side effect is diarrhea!  So then he told me to give him a ton of water to drink so he didn’t dehydrate.  It was hysterical!  In the end he was fine.  I sent him to school with a bottle of Petel and told his teacher that he had to drink the whole thing and then another refill.  They kept an eye on him and he was fine. 

No other excitement today.  Talia had English and Art.  Ben had baking.  Eric was fasting.  I got some bad news in ulpan today that tomorrow I have my oral exam (yikes) which counts for 40% of my grade. Not sure why I care about my ulpan grade but I do.  The really bad news is that there is a shortage of work for the ulpan teachers and so they are giving my teacher 2 days off a week and the other 2 days we are going to have another teacher.  We know the other teacher and we don’t like her!!  I found it very hard to learn from her when she taught us.  I am upset b/c there is only 1 month left of ulpan and now I feel like it’s being cut in half b/c half the time we will have a not-so-great teacher.  UCH!!  That pretty much killed my day.

Talia had another play date with Or.  She only speaks Hebrew and it’s really great for Talia.  They are set to play again tomorrow at Or’s house.  I am so happy.  Talia was forced to call her house and ask if Or could come over today and her Hebrew was pretty good on the phone.  She was so embarrassed but we made her do it and she did!  Go Talia!

Oh, this evening while she was cleaning her room up, Talia threw her little pocketbook on top of her closet and it caused a picture frame to fall which caused a bowling pin (a real one) to fall and the bowling pin fell off the top of her closet and onto a set of plastic shelves.  In the end it broke on of the shelves (that belong to my grandmother, yikes) but it also caused her miniature snow globe to fall and break!!  Apparently she loved the snow globe.  It was “the best thing in the world.”  She “loved it more than Keren!”  So Talia was devastated tonight.  I have to go find another mini snow globe now so that she won’t be so sad and surprise her with it…