family of four: August, September, October, November, December 2021

Three months have passed since the last entry. There are many things we've been busy with.

I. School

They both love it
Aviva's class is learning punctuation and they make sounds for the different punctuation marks. She says those sounds when she reads or when she writes. "Dear Aunt Shira whoop! How are you doing hmmmmm? I went to school this week whoop! but I had last week off clap. We're having a party in my class yes!" The sounds that the punctuation marks make are "whoop! hmmmm? clap! yes!"

II. Home

Noah likes to hold my hand when we walk, and last week when the babysitter picked him up from school, he held her hand. I think that's very sweet.
Aviva has been calling Josh and I "aba" and "eema" which is Hebrew, but she puts it together with Spanish. "Hola, eema!"
Aviva is also doing a lot of writing, and she likes to spell things correctly so she's constantly asking how you spell various words. They've both been saying "what the...." a lot, and she asked how to spell it. I think they think that's the entire expression. Nothing comes after it.
When Aviva takes her shirt off, or when I pull it off for her over her head with her arms up, she always takes a big deep breath, as if she'll be underwater or won't have any air when her face is covered with the shirt.
Josh has added a wall and a loft to our room so now Aviva has her own bedroom.
There's some word slip-ups that need to be documented (all by Aviva):

Nina and Judah visited, and also August and Tanner and we had fun with them
We hiked a little mountain so we could have pancakes at the top, something they do every once in a while.
We took a music class with Melita of Octopretzel and the kids really liked singing and dancing around in the grass.
We went to our friends' farm and camped there, and went to Armstrong Woods park to see Josh's cousin Teake. Teake is a wooshu expert (kind of like kung fu) and he fought the kids simultaneously with all weilding sticks.