big shoes

Trying on the shoes. "They are too big for me" (they are huge..) "We'll keep them 'till Sunday when I grow a little".

Eshel walks ... no more crawling

A couple of weeks ago one of my friends told me to get the camera out and make a movie of Eshel crawling. She said soon I won't even remember it. She was so right! Right after Eshel started walking he "forgot" his crawling. He doesn't want to crawl anymore....

Mom's visit

On Sunday mom came to visit. She took us out to eat and play. Sometimes I forget how fun it is when mom comes - somehow she is grandma now and I forget that she is also mom. Thanks for coming!

The sea

The sea always makes me relax. When I start feeling that something is not going right, that something is missing from my life, that I'm stuck in some situation and don't know how to get out, I have to go to the sea.
Children love the sea. They run around, dig, make cakes (many, many, many cakes), drive their trucks, and go fill the buckets with water and dump them in a hole and watch the water disappear. I can relax and look at the waves and think. (Sometimes I can even read a little).

This time it was a little wavy, but kids go up to their knees and sit in water and right away jump out and run and come back and sit and run... I had an opportunity to go swim a little and it was really fun. The water is still warm and the sun was shinning so getting out wasn't a big deal either.




















Eshel and Noga at the beach.




















Michelly can play with her truck and buckets and her imagination for a very long time. She started playing all by herself with her toys, making up stories about the toys and telling them to herself. Our new toy and love is Playmobil set. It has three princesses and two horses and different accessories. She sits in the morning and plays for hours with that (I just have to help her change the accessories the princesses have in their hands and the dresses they are wearing).

First Haircut

Michelle came up to me with scissors in her hand and said: "Mommy, I want to be like you" I looked at her hair and... I had to get it fixed.
She is very cute with her new hair style - I love it!

Last week was really rainy (how wonderful to see the rain, to feel the dust settle on the ground, to smell the lovely fresh air... everything was reborn and we were the onlookers)




















and so we met in Madatech (the science museum).
It was a lot of fun - one time we played with sound and made kazoos (a musical instrument that can be easily made here),















listening to the rulers make sounds















music boxes are a lot of fun

the other time we made a cloud in jar and then let it out and watched it fly away from us. Read stories about the weather and the rain and wondered why there is thunder.
Michelle enjoys the museum a lot and it was hard leaving (every time we came she would not want to leave).

When the weather cleared we enjoyed a walk in the zoo.




















Kids were fascinated to know how different animals and insects dress up to look scary or poisonous (like this insect is dressed up like a bee)















found a big lizard enjoying the last days of hot sun




















Watched a snail go over a sharp cactus and not get hurt (remembered the nail bed in the museum and how we could lie on it)




















and, of course, we just couldn't resist touching the snail and watching it's tentacles go in and stretch back out.

It is great to be able to do different things every day. To get out when the sun is shinning but it is not hot and to be inside when it is raining. We have been waiting for this rain for a long time and we were excited to see so much water pour on us.

Human Happiness

I wrote somewhere that I am listening to a course on line. It is a psychology course from Berkley called Human Happiness. You can listen to it here.
Enjoy.