The adventures of my extended family
20
May
For months now, when Jonathan has gotten a bonk on the noggin’ of some sort, he referred to his head oddly. For example, if he fell and you asked if he hit his forehead, he’d often say, “No. I hit my fivehead.”
Tonight, I decided to see whether he was just having fun with forehead/fourhead or [...]
20
May
Mikaela had her Jewish Community Center dance recital last week. She did a great job, tapping to “We Are Family” and doing ballet to a Star Wars medley. We were really proud of the great job she did dancing, especially since she’d been sick most of the week before the recital. We were sure that [...]
4
May
Just thought I’d share a couple of Jonathan stories from the last week. The first one comes from last Wednesday morning. I had an early meeting, so I left for work before anyone else in the house was even awake. And just as my meeting was about to start, I got a text message from [...]
20
Apr
Mikaela took a class from Theater of the Imagination. During the class, she and her classmates put together a show called “The Clones vs. The Hannahs”. Mikaela had a great time doing the class (their teacher called her a “natural”) and is looking forward to taking more of them in the future. Here’s the [...]
2
Apr
After we were introduced to Soggy and Nat just a couple of weeks ago, we thought we’d heard the cutest thing EVER from Jon. But he just keeps them coming. Today’s trumps them all.
Jonathan explained to Miriam that God is married.
God is married to Charlie.
Both God and Charlie are boys.
And how does Jonathan know this [...]
2
Apr
I turned 42 back on March 30 – the day of Second Seder. We celebrated at home a couple of days early, so that I could enjoy a non-kosher-for-Passover birthday cake. Miriam made a small cake, and Mikaela handled the decorating. It was great to be able to spend my birthday with family – Corey [...]
2
Apr
Our Passover season started with Jonathan’s CDC model seder. We enjoyed the usual mix of cute Passover songs about working for Pharaoh and a plague of frogs and opportunities for the kids to sample seder plate foods (Jon liked the hard-boiled egg, the matzah, and the celery dipped in salt water. The horseradish? Not so [...]
2
Apr
March was a busy birthday party month of Mikaela, and the last one (before mine) was a party at Zonker’s out at the Great Mall. Jonathan mostly spent that afternoon playing in the Great Mall indoor playground, but he eventually decided he wanted to try out the Zonker’s rides too. He rode the train several [...]
2
Apr
In a remarkable bit of typecasting, Mikaela was asked to play the role of a mule in the first grade musical. She worked really hard learning her lines and all of the songs, and Miriam did a great job with Mikaela’s mule costume. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get close enough to get good video of the [...]
2
Apr
February was a busy month, and once again I fell way behind on my blogging. It started with Mikaela’s debut as a Junior Dazzler. She attended a clinic put on by the Blue Valley Northwest Dance Team, the Dazzlers. After the clinic, she got to perform at halftime of a girls basketball game. She met [...]
Aaron is relaxing while the kids nap, between the Bar Mitzvah this morning and the party this evening.
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Aaron Had a great Shabbat dinner with Dad, followed by fun movie night with the kids. Oh, and Miriam can try making new desserts like that dark chocolate-amaretto creme brûlée anytime!
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Aaron Doc took care of my toe this morning. So far, so good. We'll see how it feels the first time I need to change the dressing. I'm thinking I might try Roquefort next.
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