“So daddy puts a tube in mommy?”

So before I begin about today, I feel I must first explain the title of the blog.  It’s regarding a conversation Eric and Talia had a couple of days ago that I fogot to write about.  Because we were in the hotel with my family, Talia was interested in knowing who married into the family and who was part of the family first.  So I explained about her cousins and who is brother and sister and who my grandparents’ children are, etc.  That night Talia asked Eric who she was closer to.  Eric didn’t understand and tried to ask her what she meant and she was getting very frustrated with him.   He explained that she was both of ours and without either of us there would be no Talia.  She didn’t get it and insisted that because she came from me, that she must be closer to me.  So Eric was trying to explain again that without the two of us she wouldn’t exist.  He told her that there would be a different child if I was married to someone else and we had a baby.  Still no dice.  Finally I got involved and yelled out to Talia that daddy’s seed goes into my egg and it makes a baby so she is a part of both of us.  Well, that seemed to do the trick.  So she said, “oh, so daddy puts a tube in mommy?”  I yelled out, “that’s right!!”  Luckily the conversation ended with her figuring out that that must be why he is in the hospital with me and gets his own bracelet when we have a baby!  Phew!!

So last night the mosquitos were in our room again and we ended up sleeping part of the night in our room and then splitting up and going to other rooms the rest of the night.  I can’t wait for it to get cold here so that they die.  I can’t figure out where the are coming from and they are so small and skinny that it’s nearly impossible to see them.  We can just hear them buzzing around in our ears whenever we turn off the lights.  It is so frustrating.

Today we wanted to do something fun for the kids but also something that we could only do in Israel.  My cousin Miriam used to give tours and she suggested going to Sataf.  So we went to Sataf.  It is a place to hike and see caves and stuff like that.  At one point there is a cave to crawl through that has water in it and you end up in a small pool of water.  The kids had a blast.  They kept going around and around.  I went through it one time with them but it was such a tight space that I had to crawl on my knees and use one hand to hold the flashlight and one to balance myself.  It was definitely an adventure. Glad I made it out with only one bump on my head.

After that we went to the mall for lunch.  It was really late and I think I might have dehydrated b/c I felt really lousy.  I got a yummy chicken sandwhich while Ben got pizza, Eric got Chinese food and Talia got McDonald’s.  Everyone enjoyed.

Next we went to visit Danielle and Asaf again.  We drove to Beth and Peter’s aptartment and I was feeling so lousy that I fell asleep in the car and Eric left me there.  I don’t even know how long I was asleep for.  Eventually he came to bring Keren to me since she had to eat!  Then she slept on me in the car a little and eventually I made it into the house to say hello.  It was late and we had to get going by that point and I was still feeling lousy. Unfortunately it took us a really long time to get out of Yerushalayim b/c of traffic and Keren was screaming in the car.  She finally stopped as we pulled into the yishuv!  The kids were exhausted and I made them some pasta and gave them baths and put them straight to sleep.

Now I have to go fold laundry and catch up on some of the shows that we’ve downloaded from the internet.  I really don’t know how people made aliyah before the tv shows were on the internet!