During the night this past shabbos, I took YM to the toilet.
The light was on there, which is tough to deal with when you’ve been asleep in a dark room and suddenly go into the light. So I said to YM – sorry, the light’s on cuz it’s shabbos, I can’t shut it.
While still rubbing his eyes, he said
“Yes, shabbos needs a lot of light to light it up”
“Who told you that?” I asked him
“My chochma” – was his answer
shabbos light September 7, 2010
hold on! September 7, 2010
The kids and Abba were recently on a bus coming home from school. The bus was quite packed, and there wasn’t much place for them to sit, so they just hopped on a little space there is between 2 seats. Then it got a bit rickety, so Abba told everyone to hold on tight.
“I’m holding onto my skirt!”, exclaimed R
what’s new? August 16, 2010
This evening I went out for a bit. When I returned, Abba informed me that R had woken up. But she wasn’t sleeping yet. She heard me coming home and came out of the room.
She looked at me and asked – Where’s the baby?
She really thought I’d gone to get it.
Then she pointed at my tummy and said – Baby in there?
Of all things, I was quite surprised she was thinking about the baby… I guess we’ve prepared her for me leaving home when it comes!
Otherwise, today was a momentous day in our parenting career. YM has just lost his first tooth! He had just come out of school and told me his tooth was really loose. Then he asked for a drink. Just as he finished, he showed me something in his hand -
Look Ima, my tooth came out, he said.
He had a really serious look on his face, a mixture of shock and pride. Wow! And it was painless. As he describes it:
It was like a piece of tissue stuck in my mouth and it came out.
So cool.
My private carer August 2, 2010
Yesterday I stayed up late to finish reading a book. R happened not to sleep well and was up too. That meant that she wouldn’t go to sleep until all the lights were out, and I in bed. So she just hung around. It’s been sweltering in these parts these days, so I was just sweating away. At one point I asked R to get me a cloth so I could wipe my face. When I was done, she looked at me and pointed to my neck (which I hadn’t wiped) – Ima, wet. Wipe!
And she brought me some tissues to wipe my neck as well. She kept on looking at me every once in a while and pointing out where I should wipe, making sure I had something to do it with. Really cute. Boy was I sweating (sitting and reading a book, at midnight… Why was it so hot?)
Gone fishing! August 1, 2010
On friday, YM was talking about cavities and teeth moving, since his front 2 are loose now.
- Ima, right in London they have fish sealing?
It took me a while to figure out what he was talking about. He remembered that the official name for the sealing he’s got on one of his teeth is Fisher Sealing!
brain messages August 1, 2010
YY came over to me just now.
- Ima, I’m hungry
- Ok, I’ll give you something to eat as soon as I’m done working
- Ima, the brain sent a message to me and said – I’m hungry. Eat!
Why didn’t you come with? July 26, 2010
The boys went to a water park/amusement park with Abba today. They had a fantastic time. From morn til evening, they were out having fun in the sun.
Even though we could have gone as a family, I just didn’t think it would be fun to do stuff separately from the boys, so I just did my own thing with R. Well, interestingly enough, YY asked me – Ima, why didn’t you come with us?
- Well, I answered, I wouldn’t have been able to come down the water slides with you boys, what would I have done all on my own with R?
- But Ima, they told all the boys to stop going in the water because the girls were going to have a turn, you could have gone! And because you didn’t come, you didn’t get to see us going on the planes!
Girl Time July 26, 2010
Today I went out with R in the afternoon. We went out for ice cream and shopped for some school supplies. Then we went to the shuk for a few groceries. When we got home, I asked R what we had done, thinking she’d tell me about the ice cream. She was very excited about that when we did it. But what did she answer?
“Shopping!”
What a girl!
Shabbos Guest coming! July 21, 2010
I told the kids that L will be our guest for shabbos.
YM asked – The big L, the gannenet whose gan I went to one day in France?
Yep, I said, she’s your auntie L
Cinderella July 21, 2010
Finally a cute thing to post.
We were in a toy/school supply store the other day, where we brought a big bouncy ball to have its air refilled. Anyhow, the kids were looking around at all the toys. YY spotted a Cinderella Puzzle, with an image similar to this:
Hey, it’s a Chatan Vekallah, he exclaimed!
