Zusha turns 6
Gedalya turns 4
Adi turns 2
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Today is the first day of summer vacation for Zusha! Yay! Too bad we couldn't really celebrate it properly because he was sick for... it'll be a week tomorrow. He missed Friday, Sunday and Monday at school. Tuesday was his last day, ending at 12:00 so I sent him an hour late. We went to the doctor and Zusha was prescribed antibiotics. Not the best way to start the summer or to end kita beis/first grade, but it is what it is. Hopefully the antibiotics will kick in today. The poor child just drops off to sleep mid-day in his clothes, goes to bed at 8 without having energy to get into pajamas, has no appetite and is cranky.
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In the mini "canyon" near our house, where the train tracks are, there is a mini forest. Just lots of natural vegetation. Which is cool. But what was even cooler was discovering a neat little patch of naturally growing daffodils on the slope!
And tulips as well!
This isn't a tulip, but he was hanging out near them, so I guess he was pretending to be one. :)
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We also had a checkup for Adi the day we took Zusha to the doctor, and she is 29 lbs and 36 inches! That's in the 50th percentile for weight and 48th for height! She isn't underweight anymore. :D This is the first time I ever had to worry about a kid being on the lower end of the chart. Both my boys never
left the top quarter for either weight or height.
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Gedalya observing dandelions on our block. We counted them every day, and there were about 10 new ones every day. At its' height, there were about 150 dandelions in front of this one house.
And soon enough, it was white fluff heaven!
Yesterday there were, not one, but TWO car crashes on our block. First one was on our corner (we're on a dead end, so only have one corner.) An elderly lady plowed into a pedestrian walk/don't walk light. I gather no one but her was hurt.
There were three ambulances and two fire trucks (for preventive purposes, I gather.) It was scary to see how the entire front of the car was bashed in. Imagine if someone was waiting to cross the street! There are always people around, kids, babies in carriages. It's a miracle no one but the driver was hurt.
I reinforced to the kids how important street safety is and how alert you have to be, because tragedy can happen even if you are doing everything right.
Then, at night, I was putting Adi to sleep when I heard a screeeeeech and BOOM. I sucked in my breath and held it while listening to people come out of their houses. My upstairs neighbor said, "Somebody call Hatzola!" By then there was a crowd, and I went out to see what happened. Seems like a car drove into our dead end block at full speed. There was a car parked by the fence at the end of the road, so the speeding car crashed into that.
It seems that the man didn't realize it was a dead end. I have no other explanation, because why else would someone speed like that on a dead end?
Hatzola came within 2 minutes. It never fails to amaze me. The cars were both dented- badly. But the driver didn't seem hurt.
And then the car caught fire. People called the fire department and kept saying that the trees can catch fire. They were debating whether it is safer to wait or put the fire out with someone's hose.
Until the fire trucks arrived and put out the car fire, I was kinda nervous. What if there was an explosion right in front of our house? *Shudder*
A good reminder not to be too relaxed around streets!
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A friendly cat we encountered a couple of months ago...
Adi was in cat love.
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Don't you hate it when you discover a product you love and it gets discontinued?
Almost a year ago I began cloth diapering, and had to sample the whole buffet: AIOs, pockets, fitteds with covers, prefolds with covers. I bought popular brands, less famous brands, handmade stuff, custom orders.
I kept up with cloth diapering 99% exclusively till our move.
Now the washing machine is so out of the way of the rest of the house, I can't do laundry on the fly. I have to schedule myself a 20 minute stretch so I can empty the washer of the previous stuff, load the dryer, load the washer with new stuff, etc.
I don't have as much time to fold, so I often pull out a diaper from a pile in a basket to use. The multi-part dipeys are harder to grab on the fly... you have to find the parts that match. And I found myself reaching for a disposable way too often. So I decided to cull my collection.
I weeded out the fitteds and the covers and left only AIOs and some pockets (only the pockets that open on both sides so I don't have to pull out the soaked inner.) The pockets that open on one side have been designated as swim diapers.
Given my reduced volume of diapers, I needed to buy more of the type I liked. Only to search for them and discover they are out of production. :(
bumGenius All-in-One Cloth Diaper
Which is unfortunate, because although there are still some available online, they are all size Extra Small. I was able to find some size Large and ordered two. But I hate how companies discontinue popular products!
