Shovav

So our Eitan is a little Shovav. Our Israeli neighbor in Teaneck first informed us of that over the summer, explaining that Shovav is the hebrew word for a kid that's a little mischief maker. Like, he's cute and he knows it and he's going to try to get away with as much as he can.

Since we've been here we've heard that a lot. A lot.  From a waitress in a restaurant that watched him crawl out of a chair under the armrest, someone else who observed Eitan likes to climbing into the basket underneath his stroller, or his cousins that saw him climb and stand up on top of his little chair. Here are some snapshots where we've caught our little Shovav in action. More to come, of course...

This one, here to the right was a second after stealing his friend Sholomo's snack cup- you see him on the side, looking a little confused? And yes, this picture was taken in a dressing room. And yes, I made Eitan give it back a second later.

This is pretty self explanatory, fingers and a VCR= hours of fun. What it doesn't capture is that Eitan got his hand stuck in the VCR already twice that morning and I had to lift up that little door to let it free.  FYI, the VCR has since been packed up and hidden.

This is the game called 'unravel my blanket'. Eitan's Sapta (Ami's Dad's Mom, SaPta as opposed to my Mom's Mom, SaVta, and my mom, Savtee, of course) crocheted him this amazing blanket and he loves to snuggle up with it at night. And during the day he likes to stick his fingers through the loops and try to pull it apart. He's somewhat successful, unfortunately, so we try to limit the blanket to bed time when he's too tired to make a game of it.

He's not doing anything mischievous here. That big smile was just so cute I had to put it in here after ratting him out to the Internet. So, you're welcome.