Category: koala update
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Israeli Children’s Book of the Day: Rain Edition.
Brought to you by: המטריה הגדולה של אבא
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Bebe update: Nine months.
Bebe. B. B-face. Beatrice. Let’s start with this tidbit: You’re not a huge fan of the ballpit I so excitedly prepped for your brother. That’s fair, most people aren’t keen on dozens of balls in their face. But you’re more interested in picking apart the bigger picture; deconstructing the ball pit, plastic orb by plastic…
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Mother and Boy, into the Sunset.
Anything more romantic for a boy of two than walking into the hilly sunset with his mama?
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Clappy Chanukah.
On the second night of Chanukah my bebe gave to me… a round of applause. It’s on my top 5 favorite baby milestones of the first year. And the best is, she did it yesterday after I had started singing – indicating at once that she claps at appropriate times and that my singing isn’t…
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Bebe update: Eight months.
I consider this your ‘coming out’ month. Your debutante ball. In the last few weeks, you have sprouted your first two teeth (the bases of them anyway). Just as we were starting to wonder if you’d be a gummy girl forever. You started standing up, holding onto the table, couch, walker, your brother for support.…
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We’re doing something right.
Koala spots the new set of Dora’s family members on the shelf. He asks me, “who dat?” “It’s Dora’s ima and abba.” He takes the two plastic parents and puts them up against each other. “Ima… Abba… chibuki!”
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The snail and the sleepyhead.
The latest word I have learned from my son: חילזון. Snail. In their ‘autumn curriculum’ they’ve been teaching about the usual Israeli fall topics: rain… clouds… raindrops… leaves… rain… and snails (?!). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a snail here in Israel. Anyway, the teachers have been getting a kick out of my son…
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Bebe update: Seven months.
You’re sitting in my lap right now, sleeplessly staring at the screen while I write to you. So we’ll do this one together. Apropos, you’re going through a separation anxiety phase. Hey, it’s a little bit mutual; it’s not easy not being around your smushy smile whenever I want. It leaves me wishing I could…
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Todah, dentist.
Just came back from Koala’s first time at the dentist. I’m pretty sure I managed not to project any of my own dentist dislike onto him, and maybe got him a lil too excited for it, because when we walked into the office reception he was SO EXCITED DENTIST IMA YAY! Then we got called…
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The F-word.
I’m not my best at 4am. Then again, show me someone who is. Last night, everyone I live with made a subconscious decision to be very much awake and in some sort of need at 4am. My son woke up to pee. Innocent enough, and while I’m very proud, he did it in a shrieking, freaking, panic-y…
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Koala’s path to big boy-dom.
Lucky for me, I have a wise, experienced professional at my disposal in times of parenting need (thanks, mom), so about a month ago a ‘sticker chart’ was instated at our home for Koala. I highly recommend it. It has been fun, exciting and super-helpful, and I’m just talking about for me… But Koala has…
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Messing with fate…
Today is the day I became a hypocrite. Today is the day I dressed my daughter in tights.