Catching up

Where to begin? Last week was a rainy one. The kids really enjoyed wearing their rain coats and boots and finding puddle after puddle to jump in.

Does this count as a picture of all three kids together?

Meet the Chaya Bracha Bear!

The kids went to Estie's friend Noam's birthday party and enjoyed the bouncy castle......and the candy!
The Stark kids held down the fort at the candy table, but B"H they followed all the rules of a birthday party (1) no pushing (2) no hitting (3)have lots of fun (4) indoor voices indoors and outside voices outside (5) remember to say 'More candy, please.'

Lev's school situation has changed this week. I got two interesting pieces of information last week: (1) the gan is moving locations and will be even farther from our home (2) a mother saw Lev being beaten up by a group of 5 boys, stopped it and then told the teacher's helper. She asked why no teacher had stopped it and was told 'that's what always happens with him.' In other words, they know he's getting beaten up and they're not bothered. When the helper was questioned about this incident, her answer was 'Lev started it.' Anyway... We decided that Lev could go back today for a last day with his friends and we'd spend the day finding a solution. I guess that Daddy found the situation so dire that he took Lev to ice cream rather than leave him there this morning. Mommy went to the municipality building this morning to try and get him into his friend Yehudah's gan and hopefully we'll get it worked out tomorrow :).

We took Lev for a hair cut today. Estie gave geat moral support.

I realized that Chaya Bracha has this great hair and a constant look of bewilderment and you guys don't get to see them!

I like to say that she's a lead singer in an Emo band

This is without any styling - it's her natural look

We went to a celebration of local community gardens this afternoon. Lev got to plant some seeds in an egg carton.

And make a satchel with nice smelling herbs.

There was jazz music and Lev and Yehudah enjoyed it so much that they broke out in dance.

So happy

Chaya Bracha slept through all of the fun