Before I Forget

I'm tired of waiting for myself to gather my thoughts. So I will have this post open and add to it throughout the day.

I'm so excited about Adar! And I'm even more excited that I don't have to go into pesach panic just because it's Adar!
We have our Purim costumes planned out and we began putting them together. We're going to be penguins! The boys will be grown up penguins and Adi will be a baby penguin. We dressed her up to try it out and she really looks like a real one! I think I should hurry up and get them done so I can photograph the kids standing in front of the snow mountains. There aren't that many of them left anymore, though.

I did promise to post photos of the kids playing in the snow... they are ready for the posting!

We had a cleaning lady at our house recently. She washed the floors, and for about 24 hours Adi kept slipping while walking. Soon enough, the floor was restored to its previous grubby state and Adel had no more slipping issues. Ahem.

Adi puts together two words sometimes. She likes to give the cat treats, and a few days ago she saw me handling a bag similar to the cat treat bag. (It was a bag of Dropps laundry detergent.) So she held out her hand and said, "Ai-nya. Amm." Translation: "Cat. Food." I was so happy that I was able to understand her without any effort, on the first try.

I haven't folded laundry in a long, long time. the kids have nothing to wear. I drag things out from the clothing mountain when I need to.

Gedalya is an awesome reading machine. The kid will be five in a month and a half and he is a genius.
He reads anything with ease. Things I never taught him. He stands behind me at the computer, and when I write anything about him to anyone, he reads it and asks me about it. I need to remember not to do that anymore! Interesting how things evolve. First you spell things so your kids shouldn't understand. But I am not able to get away with that for a long time already. But who's imagine that writing is out of the question, too. LOL. Once he read the word "mission." Please tell me how he could have known the correct way to read it was not miss-see-on?
He also randomly comes up to me over the course of the day, announcing things like, "2 x 3 = 6"
Then he shows me the Jacob's Ladder toy, which he arranged into two rows of thee squares to demonstrate.

 

 I love the way he finds math in his surroundings like this.

He knows how to multiply any number 0 to 9 by 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90.
One day Gedalya said to me, "Morning is the evening of the day." I told him, "What does that mean? I think morning is the morning of the day." "No, morning is the evening of the day," he maintained his stance. "Okay, so then what's evening?" And Gedalya answered, as if to a child slow in understanding, "Evening is the evening of the night."
Oh, silly me. Of course!


I've been editing a lot of photos lately. I have this gnawing in the back of my mind that I need to go through all the old, old photos and print some of them. The last batch of photos I had printed was from summer 2008, before Adi was even born! So when Shutterfly offered me 50 free prints, I jumped at the opportunity to catch up slightly. And wouldn't you know it, in the photos I edited and printed last night, Gedalya was the same age that Adi is now!




As far as Adi has come, she is nowhere near what Gedalyamonkey was doing back then!


Like throwing rocks in an excavator. LOL.








I'd have a panic attack if I'd find her with both feet on the lowest rung. Yet I watched and calmly photographed Gedalya attempting to stand on the highest one.



All the funny memories! It was a fun summer, that's for sure.








Well, that was a fun post, and I didn't even share all that's on my mind! Till next time. :D