Looooong night last night.  I think I fed Keren around 11 and then I couldn’t fall asleep for a while.  Then around 1:30 Ben woke up and wanted to sleep with me.  We compromised that he would take Eric’s blanket down with him to his room.  I hope Eric isn’t planning on using his blanket when he comes home!  Next Talia woke up just as I was falling back asleep around 2 and said that she couldn’t sleep.  I told her to just lay in bed and think about stuff until she did.  So she did.  Nex thing I know Keren was waking up, although I can’t remember what time and then she woke up again at around 5ish.  So at that point I brought her into bed with me and went back to sleep with her.  She talked and talked and talked until I nursed her and fell back to sleep again.  Then Talia came in some time beofre 7.  What a night!

Today we decided to walk Ben to school first.  It makes more sense that way but when he takes his bike it’s straight up hill that way so we usually go to Talia first and then we don’t have any hills.  Anyway, we walked half way and Talia said she would stay in the park with Keren b/c I had to double back that was anyway to go to her school.  When I got there she said not to kill her, that she had forgotten to put the shorts under her skirt that she needs to wear for gym!!  So she wanted me to go back and get them.  So I walked her to the corner of her school and went back home and then back to her school and then to ulpan.  I was exhausted by the time I got to ulpan and had no time to review my notes from the day before like I usually do.  Anyway, it all worked out for the best because when I was looking for her shorts I found a pair of Keren’s pants that I had mistaken for Talia’s Pjs and I have been looking for them for 2 months now.  She’s probably grown out of them by now anyway but it was driving me nuts as to where they could have gone.

After school today Ben wanted to go to his friend Effie’s house or he wanted Effie to come to us.  His mom said that she didn’t think that he would come to our house by himself and she had to get her son from his school and maybe we should just both go there.  So I took Ben and Keren and I stayed.  It was nice b/c they were on the same flight here as us (although they don’t have their lift yet, poor people) and it was nice trading stories.  She has 5 kids under the age of 6, brave woman, and they just built a new beautiful house.  So it was a nice afternoon.

At 3:30 we went to the doctor for Ben.  He has these things on his chest that started to itch him and they were multipying.   Unfortunately, the doctor said that it looks like a case of moluscum, which Talia has had before, and there is nothing to do but wait.  It is highly contagious and so muy cousin was not too happy to hear about it when I called to tell her about it since the kids had bathed together more than once since we are here.  Oops!  So Talia met us at the doctor’s office since she had a long day of school today and we all walked back home (across the street) together.

I made schnitzel for dinner and the kids got showered and bathed and into bed by 7!  Yay!!  First early night in a while.  I had to wake Ben up for school today and I don’t want to have to do that again tomorrow.  They each have a cough, Ben’s is worse, and I want them to get their sleep so they can get better.   

Today was a big day for me in terms of finding things that I thought were lost for good.  When I was tucking Talia in, I noticed a box within a box and I stuck my hand in and couldn’t figure out what was inside.  When I looked in the light I saw that it was my missing box of hats that I was looking for sice Keren was born.  I have about 30 sun hats for her, one cuter than the next, that I couldn’t find when we were packing up the attic and I never thoght I would see again.  Sure enough, they were right there.  I don’t know where they came from!!  I never noticed that box before.  I am so excited to start trying them on her tomorrow

I don’t know if I mentioned that I found 2 cassette players and I found some old cassettes that I used to listen to in high school of Mendy Wald, Avraham Fried, etc, and the kids love to listen to them while they are falling asleep.  It’s become the new routine for them.  Ben especially loves to pick his tape for the night and listen to it. 

I’m going to pack the kids’ lunch for tomorrow and get Talia’s swim stuff ready for her chug tomorrow and head in early myself tonight.  That’s the plan, at least…