Boy Time!

My boys... they don't get as much blog attention as Adi does, but that's probably because they aren't such big troublemakers anymore. Heh heh. They had their time of flour scattering, shampoo spilling, spice eating and getting up to take showers in their pajamas in middle of the night.

Now it's Adi's turn to take an ENTIRE loaf of gefilte fish out on shabbos day and eat it, to bust open a yogurt and bring me a bag full of yogurt containers marinating in the contents of one of them, and to sit out on our path and scream her little vocal cords out because I refuse to take her on a long walk an hour before shabbos.

So whereas Adi provides more blog material, there are some handsome boys around that can not be overlooked!

Gedalya is 5 1/2 and he's doing great in school. He's making lots of friends and learning a mile a minute.

My favorite redhead is great at spelling. We spell some words that we don't want Adi to understand, so lately Gedalya has taken to spelling EVERYTHING. Right before Adi started school, Gedalya said the following:
I-S space A-D-I-apostrophe-S space S-C-H-O-O-L space I-N space B-O-R-O space P-A-R-K question mark.
He spelled everything right himself. The wise guy looked around for a school bus to see how to spell "school." But I consider it that he spelled it himself because he was resourceful and didn't ask me.

I introduced the concept of "script" to the kids. They watched a short video of script letters being written, and then Gedalya announced, "I want to learn scribbled!" Gedalya dear, even when you write print, you write scribbled. ;)

Another time: We were walking outside, and Gedalya was snacking on alphabet crackers. Each letter he took out, he would find something around him that started with that letter. We were in CVS when Gedalya took out the letter P. What was the word he chose? Pharmacy. That kid surprises me every day. How did he know it starts with P?

Best brothers...

Zusha is 7 1/2  now. Here he is in the park with his class (all the way on the right.

Zusha's English teacher takes the class to the park sometimes, and it's really cute when we are there as well. Zusha gets to play with Gedalya and Adi, as well as with his friends. In fact, Zusha's classmates have made friends with Gedalya and Adi as well!

One morning I had a hangnail. Zusha noticed it (I nicked him with it) and I proceeded to bite it off so not to scratch the kids while getting them dressed. Zusha watched and asked, "Are you scared? Is it scary for you?" When I answered no, he said, "Good." He's my sensitive little soul.

Today Zusha took out a siddur and davened almost everything himself. It took him over half an hour, and he diligently read each and every word even though reading does NOT come easy to him by any means.

Recently I've been spotting Zusha's discarded pants on the floor and thinking in amazement (before calling him to put them in the hamper and scolding him for dropping them to begin with) how BIG they are. It's like having a little bochur living in my house. Like, do I really have a kid who FITS that? Size 8-10. Yep.

I don't have as many pictures of him as of Gedalya because he's too much into fake smiles lately, and it's already almost dark by dismissal time. But that's life, isn't it? Every kid is different, and everything about my children is very specific and personal and doesn't depend on anything but themselves!