Tzviya and the goats

Here Tzviya is minding her own business when 2 goats approach her. She bravely defends herself. Disclaimer: She was TOTALLY fine after. She just really doesn't like goats.

Holiday Cheer 2

No, this isn't exactly like yesterday's posts! Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!!

Irish Intro











Awesome job Gedalya!!


A MUST WATCH!

Holiday Cheer 1

Some videos from Tzviya's Chanuka Bash...Mr. G's will be up tomorrow, not to worry. We're an equal opportunities family.










This video came out pretty poorly, but you still see Tzviyoosh sitting beside Limor, her favourite teacher...she's also very proud of herself because only a few kids were in this song. Yay Tzviya!


Choshech!


Litzachnu!!!


LOTS OF LATKES!! THE SONG!


Sufganiya metuka!

Hodu L'Hashem Ki Tov

For those of you who think we just dropped off the face of the Earth, it certainly feels like we did. Some of you may know, but for those who don't, Achinoam was very sick with something called H.U.S. We stayed in the hospital and took care of her at home for all of November. We have a lot of thanks to give to Gd for the fact that she has recovered and is back in school and back to her normal self, so THANK YOU! A lot of prayer was done for her and a lot of good deeds. We hope people continue to pray and do good deeds for others who need the help. Here are some pictures from the day we got back from the hospital.

Song of Noach: Some might remember this...

...but that never stopped me from re-posting, right? It's just too cute!

Stamping with Corks

Since it's our anniversary week (Happy Anniversary Sweetie! 6 years!), this craft project is dedicated to hearts.

I took a leftover cork from our Shabbat wine and cut it out with an exacto knife.

You can use acrylic paint for the stamping- here I used gouache.

You can cut out cards from scrap paper, or use blank white or cream ones. Here, I had some cream colored Crane cards left over.

Mix the paints, use lots of color, and start stamping!

I'm going to cut more patterns into future corks and make a whole set, but for now, we'll have fun with hearts.

Special thanks to The Lettered Set for this idea!

And now, back to life!

We took this picture on Sukkot- I know, it looks like Purim. But isn't every day Purim? At our house it is!

Netilat Lulav at the Cohens

Miss A is still too young, but she can say AMEN!

More Birthday Fun!

Some more videos from T's party!

Why I love Silly Banz

Exclusive interview with Princess T describing her love of the new fad, silly banz

This video is dedicated to new Savta with love!

Tzviya's love of balloons!

We should all have this much passion for everything in life!

Pic of the day!

Moadim Lesimcha!

Tzviya's Birthday Pics!

Tzviya's Third Birthday Party

Crafting for Sukkot

We really enjoy doing art projects all together. It's a bit difficult managing to help 3 little ones all at the same time, but here are two projects that are fairly easy for a 3-4 year old to do on their own.

First: Paper Chains

For this project you'll need:
Colored paper
Scissors
Stapler
Crayons/Markers
Glue stick
Sparkles / glitter
Ribbon/string
Hole puncher

You can color the paper first or for older kids, color the individual strips. Cut paper into strips or buy ready made strips (5 NIS at craft stores in Raanana). Dot glue at one end and make a circle out of the strip. Thread the next strip through the first, dot the end with glue, and glue together. Keep going for as long as you want.

On Challahcrumbs, they add some magen davids to the chain which makes it looks extra nice.

Foam Mobile for the Sukkah!
For the second project, you'll need:

Foam rimonim or any shape (use more than one for a mobile)

googly eyes

paint/markers

paper clips (for sticking through the top)

fishing wire/ribbon/string (for tying it all together)

Paint the foam any way you like (note: we used finger paint but it doesn't work that great with this foam- it also takes forever to dry). Glue eyes on it. Wait for it all to dry. Do the same on the other side. Break the paper clip in half and stick it in the top. To finish it off, tie them together with fishing wire. Voila! My kids love this one.

Vesamachta B'Chagecha!

Have a wonderful and happy chag!

Here we are with our first sukkah ever!

Us building..

Abba building...

Us on our way home from decorating the shul's sukkah!

we're not always eating, just most of the time...

More on Achinoam and Tzviya's Graduation

Miss A comes first in the title because she was more amenable to participating in her graduation ceremony. Miss T wanted to just sit on my lap and let me do all the work....yep, up there is the one photo we got.

Fun with Oren at Achinoam's Graduation!

I know this event was from the summer, but while we're on graduations...
In the summer we were fortunate to have our cousin Oren visit us on his one day off of Ramah Seminar! It happened to be the day that Achinoam and Tzviyali were graduating from daycare. So we brought him along, and we all had fun!

We had such a fun time with you, Oren! Come visit us again soon! But now you'll have to come to Raanana...

Gedalya's Gan Esther Graduation Rehearsal Video

G'mar tov everyone! Here are some videos of Gedalya's gan graduation to begin the simcha part of the holiday season! Enjoy! He's very very cute, I'm warning you..






He's such a great twirler!




Eize Chamudim!


This one is dedicated with love to Adena & Yaacov!!


And this is the song we have had at every one of our graduations for the last four years! Someone is a little tired...

A Summary of the Summer

Gmar Chatima Tova!

...and she's off!!

Kol HaKavod Tzviyali on riding your big-girl bicycle!! We're so proud of you!

Comedy with the Cohens

Oh how wonderful it is to see them entertaining each other! This is just a small clip.

Achinoam walking series

First of all Happy Birthday to Tzviyali! You're 3 now! We're having a little party so pictures will be posted then. Now for Achinoam's June birthday...
She's walking with her 1st birthday present...


In this video everyone comes to say hi!


This video features many of Achinoam's tricks. She says "todah" and "moo" for a cow. Then she says "bah" for a sheep and well, you'll see what happens next...

We moved to Raanana!

Many people have been asking where we've been. Well, all I can say is we've been moving. Enough said...
Here are some pictures from our last days in Jerusalem. I have to say, we really miss Jerusalem (shout out to all our friends there), but we've really been warmly welcomed in Raanana and as one of our friends put it, "we moved from Yerushalayim Ir HaKodesh to Ir HaChesed Raanana". And although we have to be here for a teensy bit longer to judge, we've really felt an outpouring of chessed. So that's really nice for us. Lots more pictures from the summer to come! Gmar Chatima Tova!

This was a picture of our last day in Jerusalem at a play at the mall...


This is a hysterical picture of Ima (that Abba insisted on taking) with some of our boxes outside our building. If you didn't hear our story, after the first movers bailed on us, the second ones came late in the afternoon and emptied 95% of our belongings (boxes, furniture, and all)on to the street. Movers arrived at 9pm and we arrived in Raanana at 3am. But wait, some of the movers slept in the park, got arrested, got released, came back and moved us in while we attended the brit of our new nephew, Tzur.


And these are some of our neighbors. A really eclectic fun group! They threw us a "party" on our last night.

More from June Birthdays!

A Happy Birthday Achinoam video!!

Modern Uga Uga

A short clip of Tzviya's modern dance choreography ability.

They're 115 Years Old! Wow!

Part 2 of the Big Birthday Bash pictures

Sabba, Barry, and Achinoam's Big Birthday Bash!

many more pictures to follow! Tune in tomorrow!

Sabba's Birthday!!

This video is up a bit late. Happy Birthday Sabba! It's cute when Gedalya tries to take off your girly crown. He's so thoughtful!

Playing with Naama

Naama, Gedalya, and Tzviya VERY into the game. Naama- thank you! Have a great summer!

Zeffren, Polsky, Polsky, Cohen, Shnaidman Cousins Dinner

Whew! That was a long title. I had no idea what to call it this post. Mazal tov to Shoshana and Jason! Adena and Jo, we missed you!! Aron, we're so excited you're staying! Rafi and I are glowing here because we had just found an apartment for next year! Very exciting for us!

Mr. G stands for a picture

Pre-Shavuot Shoot