Yes, We Still Have Boys

With all the commotion with Adel lately, you may have forgotten that we still have boys. Or, you may not have forgotten about them, but maybe you interpreted their absence from this blog lately to mean that we have sent them off to sleep training boot camp. And that would not have been to unlikely. Not like we didn't consider it. Especially at bedtime sometimes. All right, especially at bedtime every night. But they are still here. Because they are just that cute and all.

Zusha...

...is very into planets and space right now. We are busy finding solar system videos on YouTube and I bought two really nice books about space. (They have real, colorful, huge photos!)

He's also really into maps. I guess it comes with the territory of where we are in space, where we are on the Earth, how all the sizes and distances relate and all. He's still having a hard time grasping all the concepts and sometimes just starts crying and screaming at me for saying such silly things.

Funny line: Zusha was telling me what kind of arts and crafts he will make. He told me he will make a horse and a wagon. I asked him to describe what it will look like. He answered, "You know, a wagon where people ride, and horses. The people who take their horses with them when they go somewhere. They tie them to their wagon so they wouldn't get lost."
Heh heh. A child of the times.

Gedalya...

...learned to pronounce rrr! The real, rolling r sound. Before he used to say l instead. When Zusha would torment him about his pronunciation sometimes, Gedalya would reply, "I don't know lll, I know lll." (I don't know rrr, I know lll.) (I'd quickly put an end to Zusha's teasing by telling him that he pronounced r the same way until he was 4 or older.) Well, now that Gedalya has r he pronounces it really strongly and stretches it whenever he uses it!

He's also learning how to spell! We have a couple of electronic games that teach letters and their sounds, so by sounding out the letters, the boys are able to spell simple words like "cat," "pop," "up" and more.
Here Gedalya wrote... can you guess what?

He was kinda insulted that I didn't guess right away that this is, "the beach!" (Get it? H = ch sound?)

Funny line: One day I pulled out new shoes for Gedalya to wear. "Are they spring shoes?" he asked me.
"They can be whatever shoes you want."
"Okay, then they will be Monday shoes."