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.