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)