Where’s the camera?

Before I write about Shabbat, let me mention that Talia learned how to dive from that one swim chug that she took!  She told me she did and when we went to the pool yesterday she showed me.  She is diving now!  So cute.  Even cuter, she taught Ben how to dive!!  The two of them were diving away into the water.  So I got 2 for the price of 1.  The cute thig was that he was wearing his swimmies on his arms and right after he dove into the water he popped right back up.  Funny to see.

Our first Shabbat in our house was very nice.  Last night we went to friend’s for dinner who we know from Camp.  Her husband is in America and the people that she had over, their neighbors, also didn’t have her husband/father there. So Eric was the token man at the table.  We had a great time.  The conversation was great and we were very relaxed there.  We didn’t need to be super nice because these weren’t new people!  Ben was upset for the first half hour or so when we got there because they have a dog.  Dogs here are very common on the yishuv and you’ll often see them wandering around by themselves.  They never come up to you or anything but they are roaming around and will very often pass right by you as you’re walking.  So anyway, he was freaked out even though the minute we came in they saw that he was afraid and put the dog outside and tied him up!! He made me hold him and was actually trembling!!  I felt terrible.  I tried to explain that the dog was tied up and ourside of a locked door but you can’t really explain that to a 3 yr. old, I guess.  After a while he calmed down.  We ate dinner and Ben fell asleep (again) on their couch.  I had to carry Talia home and Eric had to carry Ben home.  Talia wasn’t asleep but she was totally out of it.  With my spare hands (?!?) I pushed Keren in the stroller.  It was a good thing they were down the block and it was all downhill.  When we got home, just as we were getting to the door, Ben peed all over Eric!  Then Talia threw a fit that she didn’t want to walk up the stairs but there was no way that I could carry her all the way up the stairs after I carried her all the way home.  She then flipped out that she didn’t want to get undressed by herself.  She basically fell asleep sitting in her bed fully dressed.  I went down and changed her in her sleep after I finished with Keren.

After 2 nights of Keren sleeping pretty much through the night, she was up at 1 and at 5 last night.  That was annoying!

This morning Eric went to shul and I sent the kids a little later.  Just as I was out the door myself, Ben came running in!  He asked where Eric was!  I told him he wasn’t at home and I was on my way to shul.  Then as we were walking we bumped into Talia coming home.  She too couldn’t find Eric!!  He said he was sitting in the same seat the entire time and they had said hi to him when they first got there so I don’t know what went on.
After shul we went out for lunch to a very nice couple.  They had another couple over who has been very helpful to me as far as Talia is concerned.  She is the one that’s been helping me sign her up for her chugim and telling me what’s good, etc.  I like her a lot too.  So it was a nice lunch and the kids all played together, which was nice.

We came home and Eric and Keren took naps while I entertained Talia and Ben.  They were excited to see that I had unpacked their books on Friday so we did some reading.

At 4 I woke Eric up and I took Ben to the park since Talia didn’t want to go.  He had a nice time.  On the way there he told me that he knew how to say “jump” in Hebrew.  I asked him how and he told me!  So cute.  He remembers what he hears in gan.  It’s great.

When we came back I fed the kids dinner and they fought a little bit. oy!  While we were repremanding the kids someone who went to highschool with Eric who is visiting for Shabbat knocked on the door!!  She heard that we lived here and she got our address and came over.  I thought that was so nice.  She came with her 1 month old baby and they stayed for a long time and we schmoozed while the kids went to the small park next to our house to play.  It turns out (get ready for this, Dad) that she lives on Kibbutz Shluchot where relatives of mine from South Africa live.  She obviously knows them because it is a Kibbutz, after all.

I got the kids into bed by 7 giving them each a cold shower (they stank) and then while Eric went to shul, Keren and I hung out outside.  It was the most beautiful day and night that we’ve had here so far.  Got a little cooler and the breeze tonight was gorgeous.  We have our windows open now and might even sleep without the AC tonight.  I even saw some clouds in the sky today.

After Shabbat I quickly did my ulpan homework since I have ulpan tomorrow!  There are no Sundays in Israel, ahhh!

Eric is busy now building the closets so I can unpack the bedroom boxes and get my much missed clothing out.  I can’t stand these clothes that I’ve been wearing since mid-July anymore.

One depressing note, I think our digital camera might have been taken by someone during the lift unloading.  I know I had it last weekend and now I can’t find it anywhere.  I am hoping that when things get a little more organized that it pops up somewhere but I am not holding my breath.  I pretty much looked anywhere that it could be for it and it hasn’t turned up.  I am very sad.  It is only a couple of years old and we loved it.  Also, I don’t know how many pictures I lost that were on it.  I have been pretty good about uploading my pictures so they can be on the blog, so hopefully I didn’t lose much…