March 2011 Photos

Zusha made a lovely shtreiml from Clics:

When the weather warms up even a tiny bit, we break out the bubbles. The kids love them, but they make the kids too wet and too cold in the winter.

Adi loves feeding Mel and insists to have a turn to hand feed him when she sees his food around. :)

My in-laws took us to an impromptu trip to Ikea. Only Gedalya came along. Adi is too hard to care for while shopping, and Zusha was sick. Poor kid was sick enough to go to bed early on his own, and to tell us he doesn't feel well enough to go, even though he loves to go to Ikea.

This park is 1.2 miles away from us, but I like it more than the one we have around the corner, so we go there sometimes.
See Adi's new trick?

She climbs halfway up, turns around carfully, sits down and slides!

Yaya Funnies

Gedalya was reading a children's book and came upon a picture of Earth with a ribbon across it that said "Peace."
He read is... "Paaccce."
"Pace? Why pace? They forgot the S. It should be Space!"
LOL

(Drawing by Zusha)

We bought some Swiss cheese because the kids wanted it. They read a book about a mouse who was eating cheese with holes and wanted to try it. When I gave them each a slice, Gedalya crumpled his up and hid it in his fists, against his body. When I asked him what he was doing, he said, "I'm hiding it so the mice should not get it." The next time, when my husband took a slice of the cheese, Gedalya shouted, "Hide it! The mice will come!!"  

We took a trip to the bay and as we were approaching the stores, Gedalya read their names. As he read, "Babies 'R' Us," he exclaimed, "A baby store! That's where we got Adi! Let's go get another baby!"

He knows perfectly well where Adi came from, and that it was NOT a store. LOL. Funny boy.

Today's Forecast is

(By Zusha)

(By Gedalya)

At least Gedalya put a cloud into the picture. I don't think we will get such a luxury today. It's a HOTHOTHOT summer. I don't really mind that much. All winter long I look forward to summer. Last summer wasn't a hot one at all. Many days I was able to dress the kids in long sleeves and pants and if it ever got over 85 degrees, it was not too often. I felt kinda jilted when the summer ended. The sprinklers were off many of the days because it just wasn't hot enough. We didn't use the summer to the full potential. But now... I guess we are making up for it!
One of these days I went out from a store and was surprised to see the street all foggy and smokey. It took me a little while to realize the my glasses got fogged up from going from a cold place to a hot place! Just like going indoors in the winter, but the opposite. Wacky!

Best Summer Vacation, Week 2

On Monday we finished off the sand art project with two lovely flowers.
Like so:

Doesn't it look sweet?

Then we went to a park which we haven't visited in a while because it's a mile away from us (and not on the way to any of our regular places.)

There we had a grand old time running around over, under and through rainbows.

And blowing bubbles!

Actually, "blowing" isn't the correct term. This humongous wand swivels, creating lots of big bubbles.

And of course, the classic favorite park activity, splashing!

 When we were getting ready to leave, the boys asked me about the train. The D train is right by the park, and they were curious to see where it goes under the ground. We already had a fun adventure going to see the F train go under the ground (that's another post!) and now the boys were hungry for more. So we followed the tracks.
Eventually we did get to the right spot! We saw the tracks descend, and we got to the next train station. We went in to look around and to ask for a train map. The boys collect them. They love train maps to pieces. Literally. Which is why we need new ones every so often.
But more than discovering the train going underground, we found a whole train-fixing center.

You can't see it clearly, but really, it was cool. There were tracks upon tracks of broken trains cars and special repair trains. By then we had wandered pretty far away from home and it took us close to an hour to get back home. It was a HOT and tiring day, but the boys had a wonderful time.

In contrast, Tuesday was mild.

We played in  a local park, scooted on scooters, and FINALLY went to buy the night diapers I forgot about the previous Tuesday.

Wednesday was craft day at the library. The boys made button pins.

They made three deigns to fill it with, and they rotate them depending on the day and their moods. :) The picture at the foreground here is Earth.

Adel didn't make a craft, but she did go on a ride on the way home!

The girl LOVES rides.

Thursday was a super fun and exciting day at the library. They had a reptile program.

This man has pets. Not hamsters or fish. He has a python, anaconda, snapping turtle... lizards, frogs....

and...

...an alligator. Her name is Wally. :)

I have lots more photos of these wondrous creatures...
Like Bluey here.

But they will have to wait for another post!

Sunday:
Our Sunday's activity can be found in the two posts below!

We Made...

Paint!
We made our own homemade paints, and it was the easiest recipe. When you hear how simple it is, you will run to make it the first chance you get!

You will need: 

Condiment bottles from a 99 cents store 

Food coloring

and equal amounts of:

salt

flour

water

I used two cups of each of the ingredients to make five (3/4 full) bottles of paint.

And then you just squeeeeze like puff paints. No brushes, no messes.

See?

It's fun!

And after it dries, you have a lovely sparkly picture.

Gedalya's

Zusha's

If anyone ends up trying this project, I'd love to hear how it turned out!

What Did We Make?

The day started out like any other summer day in the Poozil family.

Climbing, running, getting wet.

Ready...

Set...

Caught ya!

Wet little puppy!

But then we went home and did an activity that's not like any other in the Poozil family.

Mix, mix, mix.

Taste, taste, taste.

Oh, phew... Maybe I shouldn't have done that.

Alright, on with it! Color, color, color!


Sooo, any guesses as to the final product?