SO Eitan

Every week or so we get an email from Eitan's preschool with pictures. His teachers have told me he's particularly hard to capture and goes running when he sees the camera out. But last week, they got him. This IS Eitan!

Silly and happy with those big blue eyes and surfer boy blond hair. Oh and that smile! Love that guy!

Purim!!

What a great day! It started early at megillah reading where all the kids ended up having a playgroup, spiderman, superman, a monkey, cookie monster-ette.

And headed to our shul carnival with games, a moonbounce, and a whole bunch of batmen!

 Check out Levav's six pack!

  

All partied out this baby...those cheeks!

And then to Silver Spring for Seudah with the Rozmaryn family

Baby Lucy- 10 days old!

And the cousin twins cuties

In the end, the kids ate way too much sugar, stayed up way too late, and were a mess today, but yesterday, well that was great.

Nose Kisses

Levav's specialty. Giving kisses and slobbers on his daddy's nose. Bonus points when Ami puffs air out and tickles him. 

Glorious Day

Spring is here! And we're not going back to winter. NO NO NO! On Monday it was lovely and sunny and we all went outside to bask in the warm daylight. Ami finally figured why the lamp post on our front lawn doesn't work- the wires were not connected to anything!!!! Thankfully, he did some research and we bought a solar lamp to go up top, so we don't have to worry about wires.

His little assistant got in on the action!

Eitan was busy tending to the lawn.

Spring, we love you! Please stick around!

The Help

No wonder our house is such a mess. Our Help is totally sub par.

Slightly Less Yellow

This is the story of a kitchen that is yellow, so yellow, it won't quit. 

Last week, now that (thank you Hashem!) all of the construction and repair from the burst pipe incident of 2014 has been completed, I got the DIY bug back. Good news for me, bad news for Ami who has to deal with the brunt of my impulsive wallpaper peeling, ikea tripping, home depot ordering, etc. 

Our kitchen, as you know is highlighted by BEAUTIFUL (ummm) yellow cabinets. And two patterns of yellow and while wallpaper. While the more offensive one, with huge flowers was removed circa October, we left the far side with the far less offensive, though still pretty bad yellow zig zag side for "another day". Well, that day had come.

Here's a shot from inspection, on the wall you can see the zig zag stripes, not terrible, and particularly not so noticeable here, but really, not ideal, like, at all.

The flowers in their heyday, in case you forgot...

And after an hour peeling, steaming and scraping look what I found???

You got it- a hot yellow wall. HOT. 

Let me tell you. There is NOTHING sadder then peeling wallpaper with an ugly though not the worst yellow pattern then to find a heinus yellow wall beneath.

So you can imagine, the painting schedule in terms of priority got moved up from "over the next few weeks" to "RIGHTNOW". 

And here we are today; a Slightly Less Yellow Kitchen. We've still got those rocking cabinets, but the room seems mellowed minus the dueling yellow wallpapers. Small victories people. And thank you to my best partner in painting who drywalled, primed and painted to give me a fresh white wall to lovingly stare as I dream of ripping down the cabinets one day in the not so soon future...

Also, all this painting, and peeling and scrubbing took place as our little guy over here got in FOUR new teeth. This sweet poor Levavi has been such a crying, drooling disaster that one day Ami was so desperate that he even took my advice and stuck that kid in a bath. He is always happy in the bath even with tooth daggers cutting their way through his sweet baby gums. There's a smile!

Weekend Away

Last weekend we finally got around to taking Ami's parents up on their anniversary gift of sending us away and watching the kids. It was so lovely.

We were at the Hyatt in the Chesapeake Bay, only an hour and a half from home, but it felt like so much farther a) because of the whole no kids thing and b) because last weekend it was unseasonably warm we were able to be outside, take walks and hang out in the outdoor jacuzzi. 

Upon our arrival and check in we spotted an amazing rainbow outside our window. It was breathtaking. Here are some, do-not-do-it- justice shots from my phone. Oh, and by the way, it was not only one rainbow, but a DOUBLE freaking rainbow. A gift. 

Because most of our getaway was over Shabbat, no real pictures, but check out this view on Sunday morning. Even though we were kid less, it seems that my body can't sleep much past 6am. At least this beautiful sunrise came with it.

We had a great time, the kids probably had a better time with all the movie watching, chocolate eating and general love and attention spoiling, but we are so thankful for the lovely lovely gift and came home so excited to kiss their faces and with some energy to boot.

Happy 8th Anniversary to us!