Random March Photos

We met some old friends at the Boston Museum of Science

Joss is a Prairie Dog

These guys need a beekeeper

Paul is bad to the bone with sleeves of tatoos

Making Hamantashen

Knead that dough!

What did we order from Amazon...

...and can we return them?!?

Random February Photos

What does Joss look like when he's sleeping?

Paul was the Kindergarden IXL (Math) Leader all year

Grandma and Joss

Snowman!

Joss is ready for Purim

And so is Ne-Paul-eon 

Look who I saw getting ready for her Bat Mitzvah? Sophia!

Spiderman and his Amazing Friend at the zoo

I hope there's glass in between Joss and that bear!

Joss's 4th Birthday Party

We had a wonderful time at Jump On In for the Birthday Boy: Joss!

Brother's in the chairs of honor

Fun time with Mommy!

 

Learning all the rules

Birthday boy getting off the trampoline

Grandaunt Shelly meets her grand-nephew for the first time!

Beren and Quincy

Quincy is quite a ladies' man! 

What two PhDs do when they get together

All the party-goers!

The whole family!

Yummy candles

Rosie loves her cupcake

Synagogue Program

Programs at our shul are fun, educational, and tasty! Here are some good shots of a fun day.

Joss the famous lecturer

The gang's all here

Hand Washing to Bake

Challah Bakers

Making Stained Glass Windows

February is Joss's Birthday Month!

And we celebrate all year long. Here are a few shots of present opening and Grandma time!

Fossil Time

Paul loves his Oz graphic novels

Super Ninja Joss!

Book Time with Grandma

Best of FB - Jan 2014 Edition

• Boxes
• My monthly subscription of lunch-box snacks from Amazon arrived yesterday, just in time for the kids to sail around the world with a purple dragon, two headed zombie, and Jake the Pirate.(Jan 4)
• Dino Guard
• "If you say "Raaaaarrrr!" to a bad guy? He'll go away!"
• -Founder of Joss' School for Inadequate Self Defence. (Jan 4)
• Weenies?
• Joss: Mommy! We're watching the Weenies!
• Me: The what??
• Joss: The Weenies! The Weenies!
• Me: (looks at the TV) Oh. The GOONIES... (Jan 5)
• Discipline
• Told the boys to bring up the stuffed animals they wanted from the nest (which was demo'ed tonight) and anything left on the floor would be put into a bag and kept for at least 3 days. Paul was curious about the kind of bag. I said I hadn't thought of it yet. Joss brought up two little blankets and one small stuffy - this is the child who usually sleeps like Smaug, curled up on a pile of toys.
• We brush teeth, it's time for bed, there are still toys all over the floor. I get a pillow case, and start stuffing things inside. Joss flips the f&*k out. He grabs two little pillows that he sleeps on, but that's all he can hold in one go. Sorry kiddo, I gave you half an hour to do this. Joss continues to flip the f^%c out.
• I tell him that he can earn back his toys with good behavior. He screams that he doesn't want to earn them back. I tell him he's lucky - Safta would be using a garbage bag, and that would be the end of it. I'm using a pillow case, and giving him a chance to get them back. If you guessed that Joss was still flipping the f#$k out, you'd be right.
• Shawn, who had been in our bedroom trying to prep for work, comes down wondering what was going on. Joss threw me under the bus, screaming that Mommy was taking the toys and putting them in a pillow case, and he wanted his toys back. He called me a baby. I had to carry him upstairs - flipping the f*@k out - and dump him on his incredibly bare (except for his comforter and an additional blanket - this is winter in New England) bed. Luckily, he had those two pillows, plus the two little blankies and a few stuffies he's brought up during the course of today's play. 
• I remained calm, and didn't even crack a smile at the epitaph. The End.(Jan 5)
• Names
• So, Joss has me swaddle two monkey stuffed animals (not victims of Sunday's tantrum). Now that they are babies, they need toys. The little monkey is called Blue Monkey, and his toy - a soft Piglet rattle - is called Grogger. The big monkey's toy is my old plush sheep, Garret (yes, the one Evan gave me for my sweet 16). The big monkey's name? Antidisestablishmentarianism. (Jan 7)
• Slave Labor
• I've got Paul making funLoom bracelets. Well, he's in the middle of his first. He's doing pretty well... (Jan 18)
• Growing Boy
• It's hard carrying a mostly-asleep 6yr old up a flight of steps when his legs are almost as long as your own. (Jan 30)

Some Random January Photos

Joss wants to be just like his big brother. Asleep with a book.

Real fire for Havdalah!

Steve Songs with friends!

Too pooped to poop

Baking with Mommy!

Look how tall I am!

Do I look smarter with these glasses?

Mara came to visit!

Lego Death Star: Before

When Paul finished all of the Kindergarten Math in the IXL.com website, I promised him something big. We chose the Lego Death Star! Should take us until at least March to finish it. Here it is at an early stage. 

A Nest of Blankets

Sleeping in our bedrooms is so boring. We'd much rather sleep on the floor of the living room with every blanket in the house used for a mattress!