Eric, the jogger!

I think that I blogged on Friday, for a change, so I only have Shabbat to catch up on. 

Friday night it was just the 5 of us.  It was nice and quiet.  We ate pretty quickly and we had the kids in bed by 7:30 and we were asleep by 9:15!! 

Eric had read before Shabbat on one of the Modiin lists that the first Saturday in February was national eat ice cream for breakfast day.  So he gave the kids ice cream for breakfast.   They were very excited!  He gave them ice cream with sprinkles and whipped cream, the works!

After I got everyone out to shul I attempted to put Keren in to take a nap but she only woke up at 8, after going back to sleep in the morning and she refused to go back to sleep again.  So we got dressed and went to shul and surprised everyone.  They gave each kid a package of dried fruit for Tu B’Shvat, which is this Monday.  After shul we went straight to our hosts’ house.  We had a great time.  They are people I can see being friendly with.  It was one of those meals where the kids were all different ages but they all played really well together in a group. 

After the meal we benched and we hung out there for a while.  The other couple that was there had a girl in 2nd grade that Talia has played with before and after lunch they went back to the girl’s house together.  We didn’t ‘leave until close to 5.  We walked home with the other couple and then he left to go to his chavruta and she came over with her little girl.  Ben and Odelia are in school together.  Let me paint the picture for you, she is half his size, about 8 months younger than him and she has white hair, blue eyes and little round glasses.  She is the cutest thing.  They used to play together a lot at the beginning of gan.  In fact, I think her house is the first play date that he ever went to.  Anyway, they came here and I gave them dinner.

Talia came home crying a little while later.  She fell off the little blue car while zooming down the hills of Chash and she ripped her tights, scraped up her shoes and cut her knee up.  Of course from the way that she carried on the rest of the night it was as though someone were cutting off her leg!   She was ridiculous.  Cleaning it with peroxide was loads of fun!!

Anyway, the kids were in bed by 6:40!!  We had another early night last night as well.  I caught up on American Idols that I’ve been missing lately and then was asleep by 10.

I forgot to write that one night last week when I woke Ben up to pee he started talking to me in his sleep.  He started speaking to me in HEBREW!  It was so funny.  I asked him what he was talking about and then he didn’t answer me.  Yesterday at the Shabbat table one of the people there said that she was in their gan and she heard him speaking Hebrew really really well.  I can’t get over it!!

Keren has started clapping her hands.  She started on Shabbat.  It’s so cute.

Talia came home on Friday with 2 or 3 sentences that she had to memorize for her Siddur play that she is going to be having at the kotel this month.  She had them memorized by last night.  I thought it was going to take a lot longer since it’s all in Hebrew.

This morning we got an early start and after I took the kids to school Eric, Keren and I went out for breakfast.  The place we went to was really cute.  They bake everything on the premises and the kitchen was bigger than the seating area!  I thought of Eric’s mom, she would probably love a place like that and I plan to take her there when she comes next week.

After we came home Eric and I did some cleaning up, folded some laundry and Eric decided it would be a good time to clean the windows!!  He is so funny.  It’s his thing.  Kerenwas assisting by crawling around outside and eating the rocks.  She LOVES to be outside (she IS my mother-in-law!).  Here are some pictures of the two of them:

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Oh, the title of this blog is “Eric, the jogger!”  the reason for this is that Eric told me today that he wants to jog.  Let me give some history on Eric jogging.  In the 10 years that we’ve been married Eric has gone jogging maybe twice.  One of those times was with his friend Jeremy when we lived in Riverdale.  Let’s jut say I think they jogged a block and then walked the rest of the way.  It wasn’t very successful (to say the least).  I don’t remember what happened the second time.  So I told him that he should go jogging this morning.  He told me he couldn’t b/c the coffee he just drank during our breakfast would “slosh around too much.”  I suggested that maybe we start walking together once the kids are off to school in the mornings since I won’t have ulpan after tomorrow.  So we are going to try that instead.  I think it’s more likely to happen than this jogging idea of his.  (he is going to kill me for this post)

Check out this video on you tube. It’s too cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMppUgSQNPU&eurl=http://tripnup.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

We kind of ran out of things to do at home and we decided that it was a nice day outside so we went for that walk!  We walked around the yishuv around one and a half times.  When Keren started getting cranky we took her to the playground and she sat on the swing with me for a while.  Unfortunately we didn’t bring a camera.  She LOVES to sit on my lap on the swings and cracks up for the first couple of minutes usually.

We picked the kids up from school and picked my friend Jere up and we all went to the mall for lunch.  The kids ate Chinese food, I got a schwarma in laffa bread and Eric got chicken in lafa and I think Jere got falafel.  The funny thing is that we all ordered our food from different places.  Then we got the kids slushies for dessert.  It is 7:30 and I am still full right now from that laffa!

Talia had English at 3:15 so we dropped her off at English and hung out at home until 4.  I put Keren to sleep and played with Ben and then I took the kids to Talia’s school to ride their bikes and play in the playground.  Here is video of Ben on his bike without training wheels:

We came home and the kids were exhausted!!  We still wanted to go look at a house.  We have officially started house hunting.  We think the guy whose house we are renting now is going to ask a lot for it and we can’t afford to buy it and we don’t think our house is worth the price that we think he’s going to be asking.  There are other houses out there for the same price with basements and our house doesn’t have one.  Anyway, I told the kids that we could bike there and then they could hang out at the bball courts near the house while we looked at it quickly.  In the end, Talia wound up taking a bad spill on her bike and hurting her thumb and Ben was in a horrible mood after a long day and we wound up walking home and taking the car. 

So the house was very nice.  It is probably around the same size as our house but it also has a basement.  The kitchen was really pretty and HUGE.  It is also decorated very nicely and they have a lot of buit-in closets that she said will be staying in the house.  The master bedroom has an actual closet, almost unheard of in this country!  She is also leaving her double American ovens and range.  WOW!  For now the price is a little above what we can pay…

Anyway, we came home and fed the kids and put them to sleep.  Eric just found out that he has his rent-a-cop class tonight – he is going to kill me for calling it that but it is essentially what it is!!!  So he is leaving in half an hour and then I’ll put in the bath and then to sleep.