I forgot to write about Keren’s first time out on Friday night.  It was hysterical!  Eric was in shul and Keren kept biting the kids.  After the third time that I told Keren that if she bit one of the kids again that I would put her in a time out, she bit Ben again.  So I put her in a little chair and I made her face the sliding glass door and she started to cry.  She got back up and I put her back in her chair and she sat there crying.  When I turned around to go back to playing with the kids, I noticed that Ben was crying.  I asked Talia why he was crying and she told me that he felt bad for Keren.   After about 20 seconds Talia also burst into tears.  So I had the three of them hysterical crying.  I had to take Keren out of her time out b/c Ben and Talia couldn’t keep it together.  It was hysterical!!

This morning Keren and I met my friend for breakfast.  It was nice until Keren started melting down.  Oh well.   She was up pretty early this morning so I guess she had to nap a little earlier than usual.  She brought me 3 books to read, yay!  I was out of books and Eric is away for the week so this will give me something to do.

Robin called and asked me to take Eitan home with us and we wound up going to the park for a little while with Ben, Eitan and Gili (I asked her to come along to the great excitement of her mother).  We came home and I fed the kids lunch and they played nicely.  Talia came home and we did a little bit of homework  and then in jest I told her that I wished she was old enough to go to the makolet for me to which she replied that she is old enough to go and she wants to go for me!!   So I sent her to the makolet with a plastic sandwich bag full of coins and a list consisting of 2 potatoes and a bag of carrots.  She came back with the two things and said she would have been back sooner but she couldn’t find the area where they keep the vegetables until she decided to ask someone and then saw that they are kept by the door that she used to come into the store.  She was so cute.  She brought me the receipt and told me what the change was that she got and how much she spent, etc.  I think I might have to make up a few more makolet trips for her in the future b/c she had such a good time and felt so grown up. 

Eitan went home soon after that.  Talia had her “bayit cham” at her friend’s house so we hopped in the car and delivered a bunch of Bar Mitzvah presents and then I took her to her friend’s house in Lapid (neighboring town/yishuv).   Three 5th graders came over at 5 to play with the kids.  They come as part of some kind of school project or something like that.  It took a while for Ben and Keren to warm up to them.  At one point I even asked Ben if he wanted them to leave.  He said no and after about 20 minutes he was playing with them.   They got a kick out of Keren and enjoyed playing with her a lot.  Two of the girls were pretty outgoing and one was kind of quiet.  It was nice b/c I was able to finish making dinner and make lunch for the kids for tomorrow while they played and were happy!  I am looking forward to next Sunday when they come again.