The noisier toy the better?!

I will make this another quick one since I am zonked and I have to go to sleep and Keren is screaming in her bed and I have to go to her too.

Yesterday was a LONG one!!  Ben had his cooking chug and I had given the car to my parents for the day and of course the woman who runs the chug called and told me I had to take one of the kids to the chug!!  I had to scramble and find him a ride and then find a ride for Ben b/c I essentially dropped out of the car pool when this whole thing happened.  Whatever.  Then Talia came home with a friend and Ben came home and Talia went out to her chug with her friend and then before I knew it my cousins came over and my parents came home.  I wound up ordering in pizza from the local place nearby.  They dind’t leave until close to 9 and the kids didn’t get to sleep until then!!  It was crazy.

Today my mom came to ulpan with me, it was great!  She came in the middle and stayed until the end.  We had so much fun.  Today we listened to the news in Hebrew and I understood almost all of it.  My Hebrew is really coming along.  I was so proud. 

We did a quick shopping after school and then went to get Ben.  I went out once more to pick up some chicken for Shabbat and then we basically waited most of the afternoon until my father’s family came to visit.  My Savta and Aunt Suzie also came, as it is Wednesday and the day my Savta usually comes.  My dad’s family didn’t come until 5 and stayed until 7 (instead of the original agreed upon time of 4-6 b/c my dad gave them directions and they wound up almost in Yerushalayim) and it was another late night.

For some reason my grandmother seems to think that if she buys the kids noisy toys they will like them better.   For Chanukah she bought Ben a toy gun that shoots and yells at you!  Today she came with a tank that also makes all kinds of noises!  She won’t get the hint either.  This time I came right out and said to Ben that he has to put it away and only play with it at Savta’s house!!  So she said, here is the return receipt, you can exchange it.  So then I felt bad and told her I was kidding!!!  What’s up with the noisy toys and my grandmother?!?!

Keren took a bottle today for the first time.  My dad got her to do it.  I have mixed emotions about it b/c I want to nurse her but then again if she starts taking a bottle I will be able to leave her with a babysitter from time to time and go out and not have to worry about rushing back for her.

I hope she sleeps tonight!!