We headed to Deanna Rose Farmstead early on Saturday, in hopes of getting a visit in before the rain hit. The weather ended up almost perfect – warm, but not hot; a pleasant breeze, but not windy. It was pretty much our standard visit – feed the big goats (with Jonathan scolding them for not [...]

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Mikaela and Jonathan helped Miriam make the challah for Shabbat this afternoon. I especially like Jon’s explanation of what he’d been doing at the end of the video. The tone of his voice when he answers the question of why he was making challah is priceless – sort of like, “what kind of question is [...]

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The initial excitement on yesterday’s beautiful Spring day started with Mikaela asking me, as soon as I walked in the door, if I would take her outside to practice riding her bike without training wheels.
Initially, I hemmed and hawed and tried to explain that we were having dinner soon and we didn’t really have time [...]

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It was a gorgeous Spring day when I got home from work yesterday – perfect for spending some time before dinner playing outside with the kids. Jonathan rode around on a trike for a bit, then went back inside the house and returned with Mikaela’s basketball. He came over to the hoop and asked me [...]

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Happy Passover, 2009 everyone! One Seder down (at Aunt Judy & Uncle Lloyd’s) and one more to go (here at our house). First Seder was a big (28), fun (entering the Seder through the “Red Sea” door), night. And, of course, Uncle Lloyd shared his rendition of the Four Questions in Yiddish (Margo handled the [...]

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Jonathan amuses himself to no end with his very own knock-knock joke. Here, he shares his joke (the only one he knows) with Aunt Mo and Uncle Corey.

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We had dinner at Grandma Marcia and Zaydie Larry’s, so that Corey and Mo could have some time to play with the kids. Mikaela and Jonathan were in rare form. Jonathan introduced Aunt Mo and Uncle Corey to his

“hand” puppets, Tweety and Snacky. Mikaela gave a preview of her dance recital coming up in May, [...]

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Jonathan’s Model Seder at the CDC was yesterday. His teachers, Amy and Barbara, did a great job creating a model seder experience that worked well with a group of two year olds. Amazingly, the same kid who goes marching around our house singing “O’ Badongal” (a/k/a “Old MacDonald”) at the top of his lungs, suddenly [...]

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