family of four: April 2018

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Purim and elephants and it's not fair

Aviva and I were walking to Noah's school and we saw a little boy wearing a paper crown. She remembered the crowns we wore at Purim and said maybe the boy was having his own Purim today and that's why he was wearing a crown.
She also said that she remembers when we went to someone's house for Purim, and she said, " we went to they's house, I mean them's house, I mean their house."

There's a song she's been singing that she learned at school. It goes:
Way down south where banana trees grow
A grasshopper stepped on an elephant's toe
The elephant cried with tears in his eyes
Why don't you pick on someone your own side

She insists that the last words is "side," and not "size."

The other day, she was fussing about something at lunch. She was asked if she wanted any rice, and she said "I don't want any." But then when we served Noah, she said "He has more than me!"

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Some funny Aviva habits

It's raining lately and she wants to use a barella.
Her kitty is female and you can tell, she says, because it has no tail. Boys have tails.
She was licking her hands at the playground the other day, a lot, because she was trying to clean them.
The other night in bed, she was licking her hands and rubbing her armpits and her feet. She said she was putting on sunscreen. She asked me if I want some on me, also.
We offer the kids different bribes and rewards for things; we are using our manipulation skills to control our children. (E.g.: she gets a bite of ice cream if she pees in the toilet, he gets a trip to the toy store if he uses a cough pocket.) Aviva and I were listening to a song in the car and the words were about taking a rocketship to the moon, or going up in a hot air balloon. She said those would be good rewards for her. A rocketship to the moon would be a good reward for peeing or pooping in the toilet.
In the middle of the night last night, she called for us several times and wanted pets. This usually doesn't happen. I gave her some pets and kisses the first time, and maybe the second time, but then I said I wasn't going to do it anymore because it was the middle of the night. She said, "But you can still give me a few pets, right?" When I said I would, she showed me her hands an inch apart and said, "Maybe like this many?"