Category: koala update
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Nettles update: thirteen months
13 months. 13 things I hope you will keep doing. Playing in the dirt Saying ‘hello’ when I hand you a ‘telephone’ Hide and seek with your shirt Climbing over your siblings Claiming what’s rightfully yours Cuddling us Rumbling on the bed with the blankets and pillows EATING AND NOT GIVING A $#*%@! Taking what…
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Loose tooth, lose control.
So now I understand why the tooth fairy is a thing. I had dismissed it as bullshit but I take that back now, because six years is in no way even close to the amount of parenting time where you can sit back, put your feet up, and act like you’re the shit.* *there is,…
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No better Israel education than the one from your sabra kids
Things I love about Independence Day season in Israel: Every year – without fail – I manage to learn something new from my kids. This morning, all dressed up for the gan celebration, on the way to the car, my gan-aged kids broke out into song together. I asked them to teach it to me.…
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Bebe update: four years
New to the Bebe show? Here’s what you missed. Four years ago I became a mom for the second time – to a quiet, sleepy, cuddly bebe. Nicknamed by her older brother before she was born, Bebe is also who made me mother to a daughter. I often feel that while I teach my firstborn…
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Nettles update: twelve months
Nettles, We did it! We made it to one! You’re still a functioning human baby and I’m still a functioning mother of three! You’ve experienced much beyond your year. A busy home life! Job interviews! Two trips abroad! Two snows – make that three snows – make that a ton of snow between two countries!…
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Nettles update: eleven months
It’s very possible you are the cutest thing ever to have existed. There’s nothing about your face that I don’t want to eat. There’s nothing about your laugh that I don’t want to make you keep laughing. In the last month, you’ve really gotten involved with the household chores. Or, as a parent would call…
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Nettles update: ten months
Your first snow. You kept swinging your head back, looking up at the sky, flakes in your eyelashes. You speak your language. With your eyes, with your hands, with the beginnings of your words. You mimic and gesture, you glare and nuzzle, you capture the moment in your hands with your touch. You take a…
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Nettles update: Nine months
You are a force. Barring, well, physics, you are unstoppable. The world is your jungle gym. You will claw and climb until you get there (by the way, ouch, get your nails cut). I couldn’t figure out what was missing – your siblings had a coffee table to learn how to stand up with. We…
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Nettles update: eight months
Things have been moving quickly, and by things I mean Nettles. Aside from the getting across the floor, entering other rooms, and eating whatever didn’t make it into the garbage can, I finally acknowledged your need to climb things. So the overturned laundry basket is now yours. How are those two little front teeth coming…
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Is it possible to raise modern kids with a less gendered tone? And other thoughts on my tzitzit-wearing daughter
Here’s how my kids tell it: This morning, Koala offered Bebe a pair of tzitzit to wear today. Note that this on the heels of last week’s Bebe deciding to wear a kippa to gan (and actually doing it the whole day – I was more impressed hair-wise!). So Bebe accepted his offer. I walked…
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It’s over. Everything is over and my kids have won. Now go read my electric bill.
Native children ahad, Immigrant mother, efes.
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Koala update: five and a half years
It would be an understatement to say it’s been a hectic half a year. But it hasn’t been too busy not to notice what a big kid you’ve become. You’ve taken to Nettles as a big brother does; you’ve bonded even more with Bebe even if you do bicker a bit more (a testament to…