Daniel is off for the month of Nissan. Last week he spent the whole week doing the stuff most people do before they move into their house but we never paid someone to do nor had time to do ourselves. This was primarily scraping lots of excess paint and tile caulk off of floor tiles and walls and cleaning out the tracks of the windows. After this, along with our nice new couches that we finally got, we are nearing the end of stage 1 of moving into a house and making it livable and a bit homey. Stage 2 will have to wait until we save some more money :-)
We took some pictures that I hope to post here shortly.
So now this week we can clean for Pesach. This job also got delegated to Daniel primarily :) Lucky him, Matani (whose collarbone is pretty much healed thank G-d) came down with a mild case of chicken pox and has been home so far this week and "helping Abba clean." Matani had the chicken pox vaccine and so the case is really mild and already going away. Hopefully he can go back to gan soon!
Tonight we have a follow up appointment and xray for matani's collar bone and then tomorrow night I hope to go Pesach shopping (after I hopefully clean out the fridge and freezer tonight). I am still trying to find out the best place to go to potentially get everything I need in one place. It might not be such a practical goal but we'll see.
Zerachya is starting to talk a little- yay! He now says "Mma" for more and "Nna" for banana, which also refers to food in general. This joins "Abba" which he says occasionally. Zachi's favorite thing to do right now, aside from eating, is climbing up slides at the playground and attempting to climb on the ladders there that are totally not age appropriate.
More to come soon.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Weekly update
The big news of this week is that Matani broke his clavicle (collarbone). It happened when he fell outside on shabbos (I was standing right nearby) onto his arm. He was in a lot of pain right away but it seemed to calm down and he was acting relatively normal but a bit quiet. But he was still holding his arm and shoulder unusually so I took him to an orthopedic Dr. last night. He got an x-ray and it was very clear that the bone was broken. The good news is that kids usually heal really well and quickly from these things and the Dr. said it should heal G-d willing in about 2 weeks and in a few days he should already be able to use his arm more. Matani is a real trooper and is doing great!
Zerachya has started to play in a more mature way. He sees what the big kids are doing and wants to do it too. For example,Matani and his good friend Elyasheev were sitting at our kitchen table eating and laughing. Zachi started reaching up to the table because he wanted to be up there too and whenever the big boys would laugh he would also laugh. Whenever Zachi is in the bathroom, he wants to climb up on the stool and wash his hands- he also loves climbing into his stroller, which was his favorite activity last night at the Dr.'s office.
This is Daniel's last week of yeshiva before he is off for the Jewish month of Nissan. He is very excited to have a much needed break from his intense scehdule. There are about a million things that we have said , "oh we'll do it in Nissan," so we'll see how much of it actually gets done. We really need our builders to come do some things in our house while someone is home during the day- a rarity for us. Daniel also gets to clean our house for Pesach- which is good timing (although not coincidental).
I am enjoying my work. I have finally started doing real projects that require me to speak with topic experts, organize and write up the information (sometimes from scratch), and figure out what is still missing and where to get that information. There are definitely still lulls though, which is when I write long blog posts like this :-) and check out http://www.aish.com/, which I highly reccommend for easy to read interesting and sometimes inspirational articles.
have a good day!
(See pictures from Purim below. Also, our couch is G-d willing supposed to come this Wed. and then we will try to take some house pics)
Zerachya has started to play in a more mature way. He sees what the big kids are doing and wants to do it too. For example,Matani and his good friend Elyasheev were sitting at our kitchen table eating and laughing. Zachi started reaching up to the table because he wanted to be up there too and whenever the big boys would laugh he would also laugh. Whenever Zachi is in the bathroom, he wants to climb up on the stool and wash his hands- he also loves climbing into his stroller, which was his favorite activity last night at the Dr.'s office.
This is Daniel's last week of yeshiva before he is off for the Jewish month of Nissan. He is very excited to have a much needed break from his intense scehdule. There are about a million things that we have said , "oh we'll do it in Nissan," so we'll see how much of it actually gets done. We really need our builders to come do some things in our house while someone is home during the day- a rarity for us. Daniel also gets to clean our house for Pesach- which is good timing (although not coincidental).
I am enjoying my work. I have finally started doing real projects that require me to speak with topic experts, organize and write up the information (sometimes from scratch), and figure out what is still missing and where to get that information. There are definitely still lulls though, which is when I write long blog posts like this :-) and check out http://www.aish.com/, which I highly reccommend for easy to read interesting and sometimes inspirational articles.
have a good day!
(See pictures from Purim below. Also, our couch is G-d willing supposed to come this Wed. and then we will try to take some house pics)
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