The Very First Official Day of the Sprinklers!

This was double exciting- because not only was this Friday the first day the sprinklers were on in any of the parks, but this was also the first day of sprinklers in the fancy new park! The kids have never seen anything like this.

There is a wall of rock that has 3 holes for the water to shoot out from:




Then there is this basin-like part. It's so much fun!


A stream of water pours into the basin to fill it up, and it drains out very slowly.

Then there are also 3 fountains sprouting from holes in the ground, and another rock wall which sprays misty water. All the features are controlled by buttons! The kids push any button to activate any of the fountains.

Mazal Tov to Zusha'le!!

Today was Zusha's first Siyum! His class finished learning the Alef Beis and had a whole party. They wore white shirts and got gold crowns. It was such a proud day for me! :)

After the Siyum we went to the park and got some photos of the big boy. :D

New Camera

I decided it was time to upgrade my camera. :) I feel like I learned all I could from my first digital camera and was ready for something more professional. I asked around and did some research. I didn't want a huge thing to lug around, but rather a compromise between size and quality.

So I settled on the Canon Powershot SX100 IS. It has image stabilization and a long zoom. It even has several manual modes, where you can manually change settings on all options!

I got it yesterday and tried it out today. Here are the results! :D

May 2008 Photos

A typical day in mid-spring. You either dress the kids too hot or too cool. I dressed Gedalya in a flannel shirt and corduroy overalls, and had to take off his shirt when it got way too hot in the park.



A fun way to blow bubbles- through a tube! That way even Gedalya was able to do it. It has holes on the sides so the kid won't sip some bubble solution out like from a straw. It was really fun!

The boys love the "bleachers" at the park! They are just like huge stairs, and they love to climb them and throw balls up and down to me.



Gedalya found an awesome "eeeigoo!"







Some springy photos :)



We got a package in the mail, and to keep the contents from rattling around, it was stuffed with one loooooooooooong cut from a roll or brown paper. The boys were thrilled! They untangled it, each one took one side, and they marched up and down the block, dragging it!





We took along spray bottles to play with in the park, and Gedalya had a grand time spraying everything! Here he is, spraying an airplane that is flying by. :D Look at that concentration! LOL



Gedalya decided to brave this climbing thing. It's almost vertical, and you climb it by holding onto the chain. The green and yellow pieces are for resistance, to get a foothold. They're really flat, nothing to stand on.
He was doing pretty well, until Zusha saw him and yelled out in shock that this is so dangerous, only for big kids and Gedalya will fall and hurt himself. So Gedalya got scared slid down right away. LOL


Sprinklers preview!! It was still too early in the season to put on sprinklers- none of the parks had them on yet. But since this park is new and the sprinklers were never on before, they were testing them in advance and the kids took advantage!



Gedalya trying out another fun ladder.
Starting off cautiously... proceeding with determination...


And he made it! So proud!