Summertime

Kids are out of school and doing different camps.  This week is science, next week is cooking for her and science for him, and there will be others including Spanish and swimming. They are now rising 3rd and 5th graders, though Aviva wrote to her teacher thanking her for being her "2th grade teacher."

 

Aviva and I took ukulele classes from Dave of Octopretzel for a few months. 

Maybe we'll continue in the future.

 Nana and Papa took the kids to Safari West, a little wildlife and safari park in Santa Rosa. They saw flamingos and foxes and giraffes and hyenas and impala and they loved it.

Aviva had a birthday party two months late. 

5 friends came over and they made colored aluminum art and painted pots.

Noah did something he wasn't supposed to and had a punishment, but he thought it 

should be cancelled because it was the day of Aviva's party

Aviva still loves her rooom

Aunt Shira gave Noah a magnifying glass/stencil/drawing device. 

More experimenting will be done, but Noah will be sure to protect his eyes.

He wrote this 

Aunt Shira came to visit

 

We played games at a game cafe with Shira

Aviva's getting big. Her nightly growth hormone shots are helping

Noah got braces. It now takes 20 minutes to brush and he's supposed to do it 3 times/day

Noah's art

Noah's art

We went cherry and strawberry picking in Brentwood, with Dorian, Nana, and Papa

and had a picnic

Noah made a diorama for school about the dust bowl

Aviva on the last day of school

Shabbat dinner last week; picture taken (finally successfully) with timer

Aviva's

aviva's art

Aviva said, "I'm strong enough to fight a cobra. Or half a cobra. Well, the tail half."

Noah says a lot of things are "sus" which is short for "suspicious" or "suspect." He says the color yellow is totally sus. 

We're practicing "R" words nightly; It's hard for him to say words like star, world, hard, perfect. We make up funny sentences to say using our list of R words, like The purple horse in the park has problems tearing apart their yurt and Harry carried the carton of dirty chard to offer the squirrels.