January 2011

Baby Adi... 2 years 2 months

 

 Snowy fun!

 The boys kept falling and helping each other up.

 The kids love when grandparents visit.

Adi had this blow up seal. It's a pool toy, but all the kids enjoyed it as a regular out-of-pool toy. We don't have it anymore.

Because of this:

 Yaya boy, 4 3/4 years old.

Three snow bunnies...

 ...one snow cat.

 Hey there!

Snow fight! The snow wasn't sticky enough for snowballs, so we had a powder fight. Haha.

 Dancy dancy

 6 1/2 year old Zusha.

Fun times with Mel...

Oatmeal monster!!

Perks

The perks of living half a block away from your child's school:
I noticed the snack Zusha chose for himself this morning lying on Adi's high chair tray. I guess he forgot to pack it into his backpack. At the time, Adi was with a therapist, and Gedalya was watching them. So I grabbed the snack, popped out of the house and ran down the block. Zusha's class has hooks outside their classroom where they hang their backpacks and coats, so no one was the wiser to my little errand. I just stuck the snacks into his backpack and ran back home. Yay!

Oh, and by the way, my external drive with photos isn't connected to my computer at this time, so I can't post pictures. I do however have old pictures of the gigantic snow storm we had at the end of December that are already uploaded to Shutterfly!

 The drifts were taller than Adi!

 

Here Gedalya is stepping over the fence from the neighbor's yard into our own. Did I say "stepping over?" I meant walking normally.

This really was some snow storm!

Zusha's standing knee deep in middle of the street. Traffic was halted for days!

We made a fun igloo! The boys are already looking forward to next winter in our *new* apartment so we have more room to build igloos. :D

On some of these snow days Adi joined us.

But since she was a really new walker (just a week or two) walking in the snow was no picnic!

So some of those days Adi stayed home and watched us. :)

Mel also stayed home and watched us the squirrels.

 

 It was an awesome snow storm! Everyone enjoyed. Although I may have not enjoyed having snow thrown at my camera lens...

  

Although the boys might have enjoyed that.

 

And now we're safe till next winter. :D

Bootless in the Ice

As serious as Gedalya can be, he can also be a little clown. He loves everything silly. The sillier the better.
That's why when he lost his boots in the icy snow last week, he didn't put them back on right away. He thought it was great fun!

It was a really icy day. The top layer of the snow mountains melted and froze again into a crust of ice.

 

But soon after losing his boots, Gedalya began to feel like this:

And then like this:

Eventually he wasn't able to walk, so Zusha brought the poor kid his boots. But his socks were soaked. It would be impossible to go home like that. Luckily, I had an extra pair of mittens in my bag. Adi's mittens.

Which is what he wore home. I don't think he'll pull a stunt like that anytime soon!

And he didn't... at least not on our sledding day earlier this week.

We went to Prospect park. My in-laws took us.

Gedalya tried out a new climber.

Grandpa did, too:

Zusha, Grandma and Mama didn't really care to climb up.
But Gedalya climbed enough for us all.

We visited the lake and saw all the wonderful water fowl.

 

Then we gathered our sleds and headed towards the hills.

This place is breathtaking in the winter.

 

 

And we had a great time sledding!

It was just right. Last winter we has two sledding trips. One was pretty wimpy. The hills were just bumps. We couldn't gather enough velocity for the sled to go by itself. The second time we found gigantic hills, which required lots of climbing back up, and we stayed entirely too long.

But this time was perfect! The hills were just steep enough to go fast, but not so tall that it's a pain to climb. And we didn't stay too long. A good day, indeed!