Ten Tinies

(Ten Tinies is a post about the things my kids do on a regular basis. Things than I almost don't notice, but will love to remember when they outgrow it.)

1. Gedalya and Zusha both have an obsession with combination locks. Zusha's died down a little now that he's able to open the locks on both our doors, but Gedalya's is going strong. Here he is, punching in random numbers on someone's storage shed.
   
   
2. My boys call the cars that drive around with loudspeakers making announcements "dyadyuf."
3. Gedalya points with his pinky finger.
4. Adel sometimes makes gasping noises, and the boys ask me what she is so shocked about. Haha.
5. Sometimes when I make Zusha laugh by saying or doing something funny, he tries to stifle his laughs and says, "Stop it! I don't want to laugh!"
   
6. Gedalya makes a bracha before kissing Adel. He says, "Inei Miney HaAdi."
7. Adi loves potato chips. Wait. That came out wrong. She loves potato chip bags. When she sees one, she goes all tense and concentrates on how to get it. I usually give her one to hold while we shop, and chas v'sholom should I take it away from her to pay for it! I just tell the cashier to punch it in without scanning.
8. Gedalya has a fun daily routine. It's an updated version of laps (read last paragraph of the linked post.) Now he doesn't just run, he rides around the house on either a bike, a trike, a riding toy or excavator ride-on and calls out, "I'm a fire truck!" "I'm an ice cream truck!" "I'm an excavator!" "I'm a garbage truck!" while making all the appropriate noises. Then he tells me to look out the window to see the truck. LOL.
9. Gedalya has an obsession with liquid hand soap. He can polish off an entire bottle in one session. I think I'll be sticking to bar soap. (Besides, I read that liquid soap has a lot more chemicals that solid. That includes baby shampoos. Those chemicals get absorbed by the body. I think I'm going to give Goats Milk Soap a try.)
10. When Adel is upset, she doesn't start crying right away. If she forsees that she will soon become hungry or bored, she will make this face at us while making a creaking/growling noise at us. LOL!

Ten Tinies

(Ten Tinies is a post about the things my kids do on a regular basis. Things than I almost don't notice, but will love to remember when they outgrow it.)

1. Adel shrieks whenever she drops a toy. By shrieks, I mean I drop everything and come rushing to see what happened, fingers ready to dial Hatzola's phone number.
2. She loves being held up-side-down. She laughs and laughs when I do it!
3. Gedalya has a cute little thing he does- when he sees a small animal or bird, he makes a scooping motion with this hands and if he's taking the animal and closes his cupped hands. Then he tells me he caught a baby pigeon or a baby whatever it happened to be at the time.
4. When Adel was a newborn, she'd do this adorable thing when she'd get startled in her sleep: she would pick up her hand a little and spread her fingers out wide. I know it's a reflex, but I absolutely loved it. I think it's awfully adorable since this reflex is supposed to be for survival. Baby gets startled and tries to scare off anything that would endanger her by appearing to be bigger and pointier. "Look, I have five long and pointy fingers that can pose a hazard to you by poking you gently if you come too close, so stay away!"
5. Every time I drink coffee, Gedalya insists to look inside my cup. Sometimes I give the kids water in coffee cups and they sit and sip it. "It's white because it has chalk kichelech" they say to each other. (Yeah, I melt marshmallows in my coffee.)
6. At almost 7 months, Adel still has a newborn cry.
7. Adel responds when I call her name. She also glances at the right brother when I ask her where Zusha or Gedalya is. (Almost 6 months)
8. Gedalya has a bad habit of leaving the refrigerator door WIDE open after taking something from it.
9. Gedalya had a growth spurt. He can suddenly reach the ATM machine to punch in the numbers for me. The last time I had him press the buttons (not long ago) I had to hold him up!
10. Adel smacks her lips after nursing, and Zusha says that she is trying to kiss him, but just can't come close to him on her own.

Ten Tinies

The tiny things in a kids' life are sometimes the most interesting and important ones. Not to mention cute! They are the details that are most often forgotten, but ones that you'd really want to remember.

I'm going to start recording the tidbits of everyday life, and once I have ten, I'll post them.

Here are ten tinies that I have in my mind right now.

1> The first Tiny is... tiny! That's what the boys call chocolate. When Zusha was little, we'd give him chocolate, but tell him he can only have a "tiny" piece. So it stuck! And Zusha passed it on to Gedalya. So now, chocolate in our house is called Tiny. When I call Adel a tiny baby, the boys interject and say, "She's an apple! She's a potato chip!"

Zusha's Tinies:
2> Zusha sometimes mishears new words he picks up from cheider, but refuses to listen to me when I correct him. So Clics used to be "clips" for a long time. And envelope is embelow.

3> Zusha calls a computer mouse an airplane!

4> He just loves actocavu! (That's avocado, for those that aren't multilingual enough. )

Gedalya's Tinies:
5> Gedalya is always either a baby zebra or a baby penguin. Haha.

6> Gedalya can't say "girl." He says "groll." Rhymes with "crawl." That's what I call Adi now, as well as meibooboo- Gedalya's version of maidele.

7> The poor kids always gets his hair caught by Adel's chubby fist! He has an obsession with touching Adel's face, so he gets really close in, and SWIPE! Adel has a handful or orange curls. Ouch.

Adel's Tinies:
8> For some reason, Adel likes to be on the bare wood floor MUCH better than on a mat or blanket. When I put her on her tummy on a blanket, she doesn't last more than 7 seconds before bursting out in tears. But on two occasions recently, I put her on the floor, and she stayed happily on her tummy for 15 minutes or more! Same goes for her back. Today she stayed on her back on the floor for ONE HOUR. She didn't have any toys, but just waved her arms and legs around and giggled.

9> Whenever Zusha passes by Adel, she starts smiling at him and making noises to get his attention. It works especially nicely when she's a bit fussy.

10> She loves to have her diapers changed, and giggles during the process. When she's crying and I put her on my bed to change her, she knows what I'm doing, so she calms down and smiles.