OK, we made it. Those last few days were touch and go, but we've survived the summer! The last week of summer was full of science and swimming. We went to the Bloomfield Science Museum with Natanel and Yishai and the kids spent about 2 hours in this one room that has a steel configuration and balls which go around on it. It's hard to explain.
Estie making pictures with magnets.
Savta Bubbie and Chaya Bracha enjoying a magnifying glass.
Natanel and Lev recording themselves. This is one of Lev's favorite things to do at the museum.
The kids got a bunch of new books from the Lewis' and they LOVE them. Want to win Lev over? Send him books. Or light up Lightning McQueen shoes...
Swimming with Uncle Ezra. He's such a champ. Savta Bubbie and Mommy were worn out after the first 45 minutes, so having Uncle Ezra and Doda Rachel show up at about the 1.5 hour mark was ama
Girl talk
Beeps loves pool time and out-of-the pool time with Savta bubbie.
Yup, I put Baby in a corner- but just to eat her pizza.
The kids started really getting itchy for activity near the very end, so I took them to the park at 7:45 in the morning. It was better than having them beat each other up over an episode of Thomas. B"H Chaya Bracha is not such a sand eater.
Another day, another trip to the museum. We were actually meant to meet Natanel again, but even when we heard he'd be a no-show, Lev was super excited to go back to the museum. We did all the things we'd missed a few days before, like the carousel that is powered by someone peddling a bike.
Seeing the sights
Chaya Bracha so thinks she's a 4-year-old boy.
These are legs that should be in a mini skirt.
Lev actually got the marble into the mouth of the frog! They were opening and shutting and moving around.
We finally found the art projects room (it had moved since last year). The kids made bottles of water with little stoppers inside. When you push the bottle the stopper thingy sinks to the bottom. After one day they stayed at the bottom permanently, but we loved making them.
Hachnassat Sefer Torah! The synagogue which is right outside our front door was celebrating the completion of the writing of a Torah. Interestingly enough, Lev, Estie and I had just watched a video on the making of Tefillin (I don't know what they're called in English, but they're the leather straps and box that Jewish men- and Madonna in a music video, wrap on their arms and head). Lev was on this high about writing holy things (the Tefillin have the Shema prayer written on parchment and placed in the box) and when he found out that a Torah was being written next door he went wild. Shalom took him over to see the final letters being filled in and of course to get tons of candy for Estie and Zekey. Estie and I watched from the windows in the ally.
Dancing and celebrating the Torah.
I know it's fuzzy, but you can still see the joy on Estie's face.
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