Superman

These photos speak for themselves. Note that Ben is wearing his Spiderman snow boots, his Superman pj top, and no pants.

Gavi's Last Day of School

No graduation ceremony for Gavi since she is just going from third to fourth grade, but Akiva did have a very long awards ceremony. Each child in the school received a made up award of some kind. It really wasn't as bad as it sounds (there are only about 100 kids) and, of course, the kids love it. Gavi received the Harry Potter Reading Wizard Award for outstanding reading in English and Hebrew. She was also recognized as one of only four kids in the school to have straight A's all year. Yea Gavi!

Juliana's Last Day of Soccer

Juliana had a great soccer season this year. She was the JCCs instructional league. This meant mostly practice and a few scrimmage games among the team (the Panthers and the Cougars). All in all it was a successful season. Ben started out in the 3-4 year-old group, but decided he didn't want to play. Of course, once we unenrolled him, he was very enthusiastic about soccer and wore his shin guards to all of Juliana's practices.




The Medal
















Juliana, Gavi and Ben posing for a mandatory family pic. Mike says that group photos are just too much trouble, but look how cute they are!

Wedding Day

Juliana and her friend Caroline love to play wedding and last week they were nice enough to play with Ben. They were all playing so well together (and so quietly) that I hadn't checked on them in a while. Juliana came into the kitchen and asked me if I could help Ben get his work shoes on. His "work" shoes were a Christmas present from Nana. They are just black dress shoes, but when Ben opened the box he said, with a real enthusiasm for shoes that probably won't last too much longer, "These are work shoes just like Daddy's!" Ben was putting on his "work" shoes because he was going to be the ring bearer / groom in the wedding. The girls even got down his one dressy outfit and put it on him all by themselves.

At the wedding, Ben was very cooperative for the wedding pictures and in carrying the ring on a red microbead pillow, but he wasn't really interested in participating in the wedding vows. He just glared at the girls and looked very relieved when it was over.