New shoes

This week Chaim had off for a couple of days and he got to have the honor of putting Motty onto the bus for the very first time. Then Motty had this huge treat of going to the pick up room which thrills him to the core for some reason. Motty came home with a Nachas note this week from school, he got a bag of chips from his uncle. then his cousin came to give him the identical snack, so his Morah said one is enough. Motty was not gonna let a good piece of junk just pass him by so quickly so he said i will give one to my sister Miri. "wow! such good middos!" guess what Morah he had every intention of having two you were so fooled but in the end he did share after much cajoling on my part he did have two even though he insisted that "they gave it to me for me!" We have a new music artist in our house: Miri! She is in love with the song "Mizmor shir" and sings along to herself playing her imaginary keyboard on the edge of practically any surface be it a table, chair or toy box. She is so funny when it comes to singing she will wake up and join no matter how tired she was a minute ago. Yesterday we went to get Miri new shoes. She was so thrilled to see her old shoes on display "looook! aaah see it! Murry's shoes!" she was so excited she couldn't get over it! when the guy brought out a couple of boxes of shoes for her to try she sat down on the floor immediately and eagerly pulled her old shoes right off to start trying the new ones (since in the two minutes he was gone she put 'em back on already!) this was her day it's her FAVORITE place to go. Some children like toy stores but not Miri, she loves shoe stores!

Motty's new bed

Guess who finally got a bed this week MOTTY!!!! and boy is he proud. Motty is so excited with it he couldn't stop telling everyone he saw about it. We told him not to come out without permission and shockingly he listens to that rule. He even asked if he could use the bathroom. Chaim told him "if I have a bad dream can I come to your bed in the middle of the night?" Motty was more than thrilled with the thought. This morning Miri woke up not feeling well and I took her to my bed. Motty woke up and saw her crib empty and asked where is Miri? I told him "she's in my bed". He was so upset "no way now everyone has to come to my bed!!" he thinks he is the new parent, now that he has a bed of his own his status has been elevated!

Chanuka

Chanuka is really fun this year. It's a beautiful Yom Tov. We always look forward to spending so much family time with everyone. The first night of Chanuka we started off with lighting the menorah and the kids singing & dancing with totty in front of the lecht. We then discussed the ness of the oil with them. After the half hour we got to have our first Chanuka treat...latkes. Our cute son that is the world's largest potato kugel fan ever DOESN'T LIKE IT! He said there is too much brown! I guess the middle is his favorite part. lol. We had the the first family Chanuka party at Bobby W.'s house on Wednesday night. It was a great party. Motty loved the "chocolate bagels" he wants more of them please. Everyone had a fantastic time. We thought is was so nice there that we even went back there for shabbbos... On Motzei Shabbos we hosted the Steinberg family party. We had a fun time. Motty was living it up with Motty and Shloimy K. Then on Sunday afternoon was the kids bash at our place. If you want to see a cute party come check us out! It's a kids party planned by everyones favorite Bobby W. There was pizza, fries and nosh up to our ears! then we played a game and made a crafts project. Then came the fun part making cookies. we shaped them in all sorts of fun shapes then decorated them with colored sugar, sprinkles. and a variety of sugar shapes... some toppings got a small cookie under it! It is really a cute party geared to the kids only and a huge two hours of nachas for the proud grandparents of such cute kids.