Zusha's Beautiful Drawings

...Zusha, age 4

Lion: (eyes, whiskers, nose, and that's four legs, not two.)


The very amazing, wonderful airplane that I am so proud of!


Fire truck:


Helicopter:


Pompom bird!


Most of Zusha's early drawings were on the MagnaDoodle. Probably because he is a perfectionist, and if he makes a mistake on paper, it's there forever. Here he can swipe the screen clean and start anew. Now he draws on paper as well.

Teething Time

I think someone wants herself some teefs.

Drooly baby!




Adel is the same age now as Zusha was when he cut his first tooth! So, maybe, maybe soon!

Zusha's take:
"Small Adel, why are you crying all day? OMG!"

Purim Costume Progress

>tunics cut out, need to sew on velcro strips, black ovals, and write "Crayon" on them
>Zusha's hat was done, until I realized I need to redo the ties
>Gedalya's hat will get done as soon as I buy the correct color thread
>I also need to get large rickrack trim
>Adel's costume is all done

Gedalya helps!
By climbing under the vast expanse of the uncut costume material! :D

Tidbits

*I bought a can of chalkboard paint- you paint it onto the wall and that area becomes a chalkboard! I hope that will keep the Poozils from playing "cheider" by using the walls as the board.
In any case, Gedalya noticed the can of paint and brought it to me excitedly, "Mama, what's this? Corny? Open it!" :D

*Adel was lying next to me in bed, drifting between sleeping and awakening. Gedalya came over and exclaimed, "Adel is a tractor!"
"Uh, how's that?"
"She has tractor eyes."
"Oh, really?"
"Yes! One small eye and one big eye!"
(One of her eyes was open wider than the other, and it reminded Gedalya of tractor wheels, where one set is larger than the other. LOL!!!)

*We are sick. :( All of us. It's been continuing on and off, and I'm all ready to end these illnesses! Zusha has been throwing up a lot, and waking up with high fever. Then yesterday morning Gedalya also woke up with a fever. So we got the gang ready and packed up to go to the doctor. Hillel came along, too.
Zusha is sick, has an ear infection (his second one in his life) and is taking antibiotics. Gedalya had a culture done and I will know the results soon. Adel is also sick, but B"H for nursing (!) -her only symptom is a runny nose.

*The boys gave Adel a new nickname. "Yiddishe Chometz Cornchip." Oh, yeah. I must say, I love it!

*I had a babysitter this morning. In the form of a hugemongous machine arriving on our block to trim the branches of the trees. It had a bucket-like place for a person to stand, and it extended up high on a long arm. So there it was, that massive machine, and a guy with a power saw being lifted up right to our window. Woaw. The boys watched, mesmerized, for about half an hour, as the branch bits cascaded down to the ground and were fed to the machine which turned them into wood chips.

*I need to go to sleep, but don't want to until Adel wakes up, because if I do, she will wake up crying 10 minutes after I fall asleep, and there's nothing worse than to be woken 10 minutes into your sleep.

High Chair Tryouts

Anyone who knew me when I was still in possession of our previous high chair knows how much I hated that thing. It was impossible to clean properly, Took up half the apartment, looked ugly, and couldn't be used without the tray as a regular chair because the bar that goes between the kids' legs to prevent them from slipping out was connected to the chair, and not the tray, so you had a perfectly useless chair with a bar growing out of it hanging around your house.

So when Gedalya graduated to a regular chair, we got rid of it. I did some research into the chairs that are available these days... and settled on:

The Graco wooden high chair.
It has a wooden tray, which has a plastic cover. The safety bar is attached to the tray, so when it's removed, it can be used as a regular chair. Yay!

It does not recline, which makes perfect sense, since I will not be feeding my kids solid food at an age when they can't even sit up straight.
So given its lack of recline, Adel only got to test it out long enough to grab a couple of pictures. :)




And the sweater-- my mother made that for Adibaby, along with matching pants. The set is just precious!

Adel Earns Her Keep

My Mama still makes me fold laundry.


And I still don't like it.

I Need Summer. Now.

Wow. Today was such a tease. It was almost 60 degrees F! We took advantage of it to the last drop. But it made me long for summer. I'm not used to having a winter baby.

It was so warm that I went out without a coat. I took along Gedalya's and Adel's coats, stuck Adelbaby in my kangaroo pocket, and off we went to pick up the Zusil. Gedalya rode in the carriage and took photos of me and Adel. :)


Adelbaby even fell asleep in the sling, and looked so comfy and rosy. :) I loved seeing her sleeping face so close as I walked.

We picked up Zusha and went to the bakery to get some things to eat in the park. On our way, a punky-looking teen on his way from public school noticed Adel peeking over my shoulder from her carrier and said, "What a cute baby girl. Hi cutie!" Haha

Then we settled by a table in the park and had a snack.





By then Adel was getting tired again, and hungry, too. So I nursed her to sleep while the boys drew with chalk. Zusha, my little artist, drew a hopscotch board!

We played and enjoyed the long-awaited sunny reprieve from one of the coldest winters I remember. Then we went home. On the way I played with Zusha- I spelled a word to him in Yiddish and he had to figure it out. He was pretty good at it, and got most of them right! When we arrived home, we played with clay. We haven't done that in a while, so it was a real treat for the boys.
The day was just so perfect!