The kids and I started camp Ma-Tov on Monday!
Elinoa & Yoav are having a great time so far. I am really enjoying being at the pool, the team are really nice & the kids are cute, fingers crossed.
Elinoa has a sleep over at camp tomorrow night which she is really looking forward to.
I will take some photos next week and post them here...

I was putting Millie to bed today and Elinoa decided to come in for story time (Bear and Mrs Duck)
At some point, she disappeared from the room and I thought nothing of it. I then went to read to Yoav and say the 'shema' with him. After 8 pages of his book and the full recital of the 'shema' and 'hamalach', I then went to see to Elinoa...except she wasn't in her room!
After looking in my bed, the playroom, the lounge, the basement and the garden, I started to worry. After checking all these places again, I was starting to get really worried. Trying to stay calm, I thought to myself "What would they do in 'Blue's Clues' or 'Little Einsteins' or even 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse'? They would go through all the options systematically and produce an answer by a process of elimination.
And thus Elinoa was found, sitting on the toilet in our en suite, where she had been stuck without toilet paper possibly for about half an hour. Her explanation? she knew I had put Millie to sleep and didn't want to shout for help in case she woke her up!

I got my logo this week, Elinoa was up until midnight helping me design it every step of the way! Thanks Els. Here's a picture of her, its about time she made it to the blog!

Bless him, he's got such an adorable toothless smile at the moment with his 2 top teeth missing. I have to be very careful not to let him see me taking his photo or he gives me the most ridiculous faces.
He came home with the most fantastic piece of writing that he'd done in school. It goes something like this:

"Once at the begining of the year not everyone was so nice to me. When I wanted to play with them. I tryd to make friends. At Ocotber it was a bit better. But at the begining of the year I only had 3 friends. But at April it was just writ. and its even better. When I playd with them they wer making funny jokes with me. All of the partys that they had. When I got home I sent them funny letters on my sisters email. And she never knew. the end."

There were 2 things in this piece that I particularly loved - firstly, he was so aware of the months, and where he was in terms of happiness and friends level at which month ("But at April it was just writ" - isnt that gorgeous?!!). Secondly, his honesty at the end, this fabulous confession that he has been using Elinoa's email account to send daft letters to his friends.

How could anyone not want to be his friend? he's the best fun!...

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