Well, it has been yet another eventful week in the Beiser household.
sorry for the failure to update this blog every week, but its hectic and crazy here.
The kids really enjoyed Chanukah. Shaya lit his own Menorah and said the brachos beautifully, especially by the end. Two days of vacation from school were big fun for Mommy with lots of family bonding. We did manage to take one day that week to take the boys for professional pictures which came out well, BH, although I was exhausted afterward!
(see here for photos, : http://www.adinamarkowitzphotography.com/ username: beiser2; password: smile)
When they returned to school they had much Chanukah fun, returning daily with projects and dreidels and lots of nosh. We also spent a nice evening with Uncle Reuben, Aunt Tehila and the kids where we joined them for their candle lighting and had dinner and playing afterward.
The highlight of the past week was of course, the boys return to regular schedule of school. YB was home pretty much the whole week, as was sick with... pneumonia! that's right, doesn't that sound dramatic?
It wasn't so dramatic actually and he is back in gan today (on 2 antibiotics). But it was a tough week, lots of crying at night, etc.
We (read: I) also took MM to a fancy expensive ENT at Hadassah (read: schlep) who told us to put him on a low-dose antibiotic for a few months, or take out his tonsils. This is pretty much exactly what the not-fancy, free ENT told us as well. But it sounded more professional from the fancy one! We are also looking into a chinese medicine option which is supposed to have about a 50% success rate.
I also finally heard back from my dissertation advisor who said she will try to review my paper over the break. Nice of her.
Cute kid stuff:
As the siren went off before Shabbos:
Bin: Listen Shaya, the siren is going off
Shaya: Abba, its not going off, its going on!
As the boys spot the newborn toys (rattles etc) put away in the closet:
MM: What are those toys for?
Me: those are for little tiny babies, but we don't need them now because we dont' have a little tiny baby
Shaya: Well, that's because you aren't davening hard enough!
At lunch:
Shaya: Mommy, I have a very good idea.
Me: Really, what's that?
Shaya: every day we should bake a cake and then you won't have to bake one on erev shabbos
(the joy of a child who already knows the value of the freezer!)
As I was feeding YB in the kitchen -
Shaya from the living room: "Mommmmyy...."
YB: "Commming...."
YB's expanding vocabulary:
"coat", "bye bye", "stroller" "paci" "ketchup" "abba" "hello" "thank you"
SO CUTE!!
Have a great week!!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Please comment!
We are considering going on strike - we work so hard to update the blog and no one ever posts comments! It just takes a minute...c'mon you can do it! Don't you have anything to say?!
Chanukah videos
okay after trying for a while, i can't figure out how to get a video on here (one was uploading forever) so I am just putting the links to youtube and you can see them there.
here is: the kids Pre-lighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGmyqqT88o
Shaya lighting his own menorah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWseLyXwQ7Q
hope to take some dancing footage tonight...hope everyone is having a great chanukah...
love us
here is: the kids Pre-lighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssGmyqqT88o
Shaya lighting his own menorah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWseLyXwQ7Q
hope to take some dancing footage tonight...hope everyone is having a great chanukah...
love us
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Weekend Update - December 7th
Hi Everyone -
Sorry for the delay of blog updates, you could say its been hectic around here.
We had a nice, fairly quiet Shabbos. We had two seminary girls over for Shabbos lunch (neighborhood shabbaton). Its amazing how quiet the boys get when we have company. We love it.
The boys are getting used to joining us at the seuda and going to bed after the soup. Shabbos afternoon has become particularly short, but we manage to get to the park anyway.
In other news, MM had yet another case of strep throat and an apptmt at another specialist ENT right after Chanukah. He was also the Abba shel Shabbat this week and thoroughly enjoyed wearing his shabbos clothes to school and giving out treats.
Shaya had a hearing test, and is a bit improved from last time falling into the "low end of normal" range. He enjoyed wearing the headphones. Aleph-beis is still a challenge, but he seems to be doing alright.
YB has adjusted well to his new gan. He even brings home "projects" which we find so cute. He is having an extremely cute stage right now, which we are enjoying - he's starting to imitate words, play with big-boy toys and just is adorable overall. Its a good thing actually, since he is also going through an extremely annoying trouble-maker stage - emptying out pots from the cabinets (found one in the stroller basket on the way to gan), turning over containers of clics and toys, spilling out containers of milk, etc. The cute stage helps to make the trouble-maker stage more bearable.
Binyamin has begun staying in yeshiva for lunch to be "more productive" with his day. We know this is just a cover for "avoiding kvetchy children at lunchtime", but that's okay, we understand. Luckily, he is provided hot fleishig lunch in yeshiva and no longer needs to bring himself pb & j sandwiches!
Not much else to report - oh, I went to the n'shei melave malka this week and won a free snood in their raffle! Yay me, i never win anything! this was very exciting.
Here are some of our cute recent quotes from the kids:
Shaya - "this is the best treat I never had!"
- "do you want medium, MM? Medium is also small and also big"
- "on Friday you don't have to wait downstairs for our tender to come, because you have a lot to do"
- In the bathroom at the hearing test center, Shaya noticed that there were pumps of liquid soap sticking out of the counters. He wanted to know where the soap came from. he then proceeded to climb underneath the counter to find the soap. He happily reported that there are big containers of soap under each one, two are full and one is half full. It was cute.
Moshe Meir - protesting taking his strep medicine: "But I don't have a fever anymore. When is Chanukah? I'll take it after Chanukah"
K - hope to post some video soon. As part of his troublemaker stage, YB lost the card to my digital camera, so I'm a bit low on pictures right now!
Love,
Us
Sorry for the delay of blog updates, you could say its been hectic around here.
We had a nice, fairly quiet Shabbos. We had two seminary girls over for Shabbos lunch (neighborhood shabbaton). Its amazing how quiet the boys get when we have company. We love it.
The boys are getting used to joining us at the seuda and going to bed after the soup. Shabbos afternoon has become particularly short, but we manage to get to the park anyway.
In other news, MM had yet another case of strep throat and an apptmt at another specialist ENT right after Chanukah. He was also the Abba shel Shabbat this week and thoroughly enjoyed wearing his shabbos clothes to school and giving out treats.
Shaya had a hearing test, and is a bit improved from last time falling into the "low end of normal" range. He enjoyed wearing the headphones. Aleph-beis is still a challenge, but he seems to be doing alright.
YB has adjusted well to his new gan. He even brings home "projects" which we find so cute. He is having an extremely cute stage right now, which we are enjoying - he's starting to imitate words, play with big-boy toys and just is adorable overall. Its a good thing actually, since he is also going through an extremely annoying trouble-maker stage - emptying out pots from the cabinets (found one in the stroller basket on the way to gan), turning over containers of clics and toys, spilling out containers of milk, etc. The cute stage helps to make the trouble-maker stage more bearable.
Binyamin has begun staying in yeshiva for lunch to be "more productive" with his day. We know this is just a cover for "avoiding kvetchy children at lunchtime", but that's okay, we understand. Luckily, he is provided hot fleishig lunch in yeshiva and no longer needs to bring himself pb & j sandwiches!
Not much else to report - oh, I went to the n'shei melave malka this week and won a free snood in their raffle! Yay me, i never win anything! this was very exciting.
Here are some of our cute recent quotes from the kids:
Shaya - "this is the best treat I never had!"
- "do you want medium, MM? Medium is also small and also big"
- "on Friday you don't have to wait downstairs for our tender to come, because you have a lot to do"
- In the bathroom at the hearing test center, Shaya noticed that there were pumps of liquid soap sticking out of the counters. He wanted to know where the soap came from. he then proceeded to climb underneath the counter to find the soap. He happily reported that there are big containers of soap under each one, two are full and one is half full. It was cute.
Moshe Meir - protesting taking his strep medicine: "But I don't have a fever anymore. When is Chanukah? I'll take it after Chanukah"
K - hope to post some video soon. As part of his troublemaker stage, YB lost the card to my digital camera, so I'm a bit low on pictures right now!
Love,
Us
Sunday, November 22, 2009
November 22- Weekend Update
Hi Everyone,
Sorry for the lack of updates. It has been hectic around here, plus I couldn't find my camera for about a week. (recently located by Bin, sitting on the bookshelf).
Not too much excitement although at the same time every day is eventful.
We had a very nice Shabbos, with the kids awake Friday night, with our break after the soup to get everyone into bed. MM has learned the parsha which he insists is called "doindos" ("Toldos"). He is very sure about this. Shaya also shared much on the parsha which was really nice, and enjoyed his Rebbe bringing in a real bow and arrow to show them how Eisav hunted. He also brought home a nice colored picture of Yaakov and Eisav, with Yaakov having payis and all!
We had three boys over from Bin's morning yeshiva, so I was quite outnumbered. The boys enjoyed having "so many Abbas" at the table.
In other news, Shaya is doing alright with aleph-beis, although we do A LOT of reviewing at home to help him keep up. Side benefit is that MM seems to be learning aleph beis as well, so that should be easier on us next year.
Yaakov Baruch has moved from the babysitter to "gan" for 1 1/2 year olds, which is essentially - a cheaper babysitter. It does involve actually leaving the house to drop him off, but its good to get some air anyway. Today he didn't even cry when I dropped him off.
MM's ENT felt that if he gets strep again he should be on a low-dose antibiotic for 2-3 months or have his tonsils removed. In an effort to avoid this, we are trying alternative medicine and accupuncture! (are you proud Bubbie?) He's not loving it, but we'll see if it worked. We're pretty desperate at this point.
Think that's about all...hope to post some pictures soon.
Weekly preview: Our first parent-teacher conference meeting tommorow with Shaya's rebbe. should be interesting! Drs. appointment for me. New glasses for Bin....
Sorry for the lack of updates. It has been hectic around here, plus I couldn't find my camera for about a week. (recently located by Bin, sitting on the bookshelf).
Not too much excitement although at the same time every day is eventful.
We had a very nice Shabbos, with the kids awake Friday night, with our break after the soup to get everyone into bed. MM has learned the parsha which he insists is called "doindos" ("Toldos"). He is very sure about this. Shaya also shared much on the parsha which was really nice, and enjoyed his Rebbe bringing in a real bow and arrow to show them how Eisav hunted. He also brought home a nice colored picture of Yaakov and Eisav, with Yaakov having payis and all!
We had three boys over from Bin's morning yeshiva, so I was quite outnumbered. The boys enjoyed having "so many Abbas" at the table.
In other news, Shaya is doing alright with aleph-beis, although we do A LOT of reviewing at home to help him keep up. Side benefit is that MM seems to be learning aleph beis as well, so that should be easier on us next year.
Yaakov Baruch has moved from the babysitter to "gan" for 1 1/2 year olds, which is essentially - a cheaper babysitter. It does involve actually leaving the house to drop him off, but its good to get some air anyway. Today he didn't even cry when I dropped him off.
MM's ENT felt that if he gets strep again he should be on a low-dose antibiotic for 2-3 months or have his tonsils removed. In an effort to avoid this, we are trying alternative medicine and accupuncture! (are you proud Bubbie?) He's not loving it, but we'll see if it worked. We're pretty desperate at this point.
Think that's about all...hope to post some pictures soon.
Weekly preview: Our first parent-teacher conference meeting tommorow with Shaya's rebbe. should be interesting! Drs. appointment for me. New glasses for Bin....
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Weekend update
BH we had a very nice Shabbos this week.
Shaya and MM both made models of Avraham's tent, which were prominently displayed on the table. (We asked MM whose tent he made- us: " MM, who's tent is this?" MM: "Its MY tent, I made it in my gan" Us: But who lives in it? MM: "I do!, Its mine". maybe next year he'll get it.).
MM also learned the color "yarok" which of course, he explained as "red". So, MM has a way to go with the education piece, but he is still really really cute.
Shaya was able to tell us about the parsha very nicely as well, noting that Avraham and Sara had a new baby named "Yitzchak Avinu".
We had 4 seminary girls over friday night (shabbaton in the neighborhood). Ben is still recovering.
Shabbos morning I took the kids to a kiddush next door where they each grabbed as much as they could before heading back home. Then we had Ben's morning chavrusah, Mike, over for lunch. He enjoyed this much more. Yaakov Baruch is very into Mike and spent a lot of time climbing on him. bH Mike seems to be kid-friendly as well.
Ben was very very nice and let me take both a morning and afternoon nap to try and finally get rid of this cold.
After a quick trip to the park, the boys were all in pjs by havdalah and quickly into bed after that.
Weekly preview: MM finally has his ENT appt for his persistant strep, Shaya has speech, YB has an OT evaluation. I am working on my paper and Ben has begun studying for his next bechina (beginning of March). Shaya's class is having a "kibud av v'eim" project for the next 3 weeks, wherein they learn all about honoring parents and we have to send in special notes every day saying how he did kibud av v'eim. This is very good for bribing him to listen to us...For every note they get a treat and at the end there is a big party and prizes...
Have a great week!
Shaya and MM both made models of Avraham's tent, which were prominently displayed on the table. (We asked MM whose tent he made- us: " MM, who's tent is this?" MM: "Its MY tent, I made it in my gan" Us: But who lives in it? MM: "I do!, Its mine". maybe next year he'll get it.).
MM also learned the color "yarok" which of course, he explained as "red". So, MM has a way to go with the education piece, but he is still really really cute.
Shaya was able to tell us about the parsha very nicely as well, noting that Avraham and Sara had a new baby named "Yitzchak Avinu".
We had 4 seminary girls over friday night (shabbaton in the neighborhood). Ben is still recovering.
Shabbos morning I took the kids to a kiddush next door where they each grabbed as much as they could before heading back home. Then we had Ben's morning chavrusah, Mike, over for lunch. He enjoyed this much more. Yaakov Baruch is very into Mike and spent a lot of time climbing on him. bH Mike seems to be kid-friendly as well.
Ben was very very nice and let me take both a morning and afternoon nap to try and finally get rid of this cold.
After a quick trip to the park, the boys were all in pjs by havdalah and quickly into bed after that.
Weekly preview: MM finally has his ENT appt for his persistant strep, Shaya has speech, YB has an OT evaluation. I am working on my paper and Ben has begun studying for his next bechina (beginning of March). Shaya's class is having a "kibud av v'eim" project for the next 3 weeks, wherein they learn all about honoring parents and we have to send in special notes every day saying how he did kibud av v'eim. This is very good for bribing him to listen to us...For every note they get a treat and at the end there is a big party and prizes...
Have a great week!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Still sick
In case anyone is wondering, its almost 11pm, and i am Still Sick.
Oh don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I hate those people who just wallow in their sickness and kvetch about it all day. just get on with it, I always say. I was just letting you all know, that in fact, I am still sick.. not in a kvetchy whiny way. just in a factual kind of a way.
yah right. I HATE BEING SICK!! POOR POOR ME!
goodnight!! i'm off to recuperate...
Oh don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I hate those people who just wallow in their sickness and kvetch about it all day. just get on with it, I always say. I was just letting you all know, that in fact, I am still sick.. not in a kvetchy whiny way. just in a factual kind of a way.
yah right. I HATE BEING SICK!! POOR POOR ME!
goodnight!! i'm off to recuperate...
Now I'm sick:(
Sad to report that I have a terrible cold!
Even sadder to say that no one seems to care!
As if a cold is not a real illness! Its a very, very bad, real illness!
I can't breathe! I can't sleep! I can't stand it!
(don't worry, no fever or signs of flu, bH)
Sympathy may be posted below.
Thank you.
Even sadder to say that no one seems to care!
As if a cold is not a real illness! Its a very, very bad, real illness!
I can't breathe! I can't sleep! I can't stand it!
(don't worry, no fever or signs of flu, bH)
Sympathy may be posted below.
Thank you.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Motzei Shabbos Update
YB is feeling much better and his fever is gone. His appetite has somewhat returned - he was able to enjoy his erev Shabbos chocolate pudding with the others (see above picture!)
Also nice this erev Shabbos was the new friday morning chavrusa started between Ben and Reuben - they are learning meseches Sukkah which they hope to finish in honor of Abba's yahrtzeit.
BH we had a very nice Shabbos. Pretty quiet. Since Shabbos has started coming in early, the boys have been joining us for Friday night seuda. They are usually in top form (read: exhausted) since it is right around their bedtime. Moshe Meir spilled his soup all over the (plastic cover-less) tablecloth, Shaya threw all his projects around the room, and Yaakov Baruch dumped all his food off his highchair. A great time was had by all:) Suffice it to say, we took a break after the soup to put everyone to SLEEP! Shabbos day was a bit calmer. The boys went to the park with a neighbor (yay!) YB took a 2 1/2 hour nap (also yay!).
Previews for the coming week include: Shaya learning letters ches and tes, Moshe Meir learning the color green, Binyamin learning some daf or other, Felicia returning to dissertation work, and YB learning to eat with a spoon! Should be good...we'll keep you posted!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Happy Birthday Uncle Heshy!
Happy Birthday to Uncle Heshy! Sorry its a day belated. The boys said that they would draw happy birthday cards to post, but they haven't, so we're posting without them!
Wishing you a great year with lots of nachas and hatzlacha...
Wishing you a great year with lots of nachas and hatzlacha...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Look what I figured out how to do!
Here are some recent pictures that Tante Breindy took while the boys were all dressed up for chol hamoed. unfortunately Bin was not home to complete the family photo op, but better than nothing right?
Wow, this blogging thing is very addictive...
Moshe Meir's Upsherin!
Just wanted to let you all see a picture of Moshe Meir with his new "big boy" haircut! Cute huh? We have gotten several comments that he resembles Ben more now. We personally think that he resembles his cousin Dani (Beiser) although not so much in this particular picture. Either way, pretty cute! He is quite proud of himself and we are so glad not to be dealing with ponytails anymore:) Yaakov Baruch is sick:(
Well, I took him to the dr. this morning and he definitely agreed with me: YB is sick. And to think, i didn't even go to med school.
Anyhow, it seems to NOT be: ear infection, strep
So, even with all that med school, dr. could not say what was wrong. Which leads us to conclude....virus. He is very kvetchy. Not fun.
Just thought you'd like to know...
Anyhow, it seems to NOT be: ear infection, strep
So, even with all that med school, dr. could not say what was wrong. Which leads us to conclude....virus. He is very kvetchy. Not fun.
Just thought you'd like to know...
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Beiser Blog Begins!
Ok... after much prompting from Zaidy Schor, we are attempting to begin a family Blog. This is to take the place of the family update.
We will see if this is successful. It is certainly a fun way to procrastinate.
As of today (Monday), Binyamin's bechina is OVER and he feels it went well. Also YB seems to be sick.
That's all the news...
We will see if this is successful. It is certainly a fun way to procrastinate.
As of today (Monday), Binyamin's bechina is OVER and he feels it went well. Also YB seems to be sick.
That's all the news...
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