Camp Creation

Last week, I decided to do some special things with the boys, as they are not attending any type of camp this summer. I made a "camp" at home, with a theme for exactly 7 days: the days of creation. It went something like this:
Camp Creation Schedule
Day 1: "Let there be light". Race separating clothes into dark and light. "scratch art", scratching a design on a paper that already has thick black crayon covering it. Sitting in a very dark room, experimenting with a flashlight.

Day 2 : "Water, Water Everywhere". Run in the sprinklers. Experiment with sink vs. float items. Making paper boats for the bathtub. Water balloons. Ice, water, steam. Baby Einstein video about water.

Day 3: "Earth, Sea and Garden." Play the Garden board game. Go outside and pull some weeds, dig in the dirt. Make land and water forms with plastalina and water. Read books on flowers, plants, trees, and The Giving Tree.

Day 4: "Sun, Moon, Stars." Baby Einstein video about space. Books about planets and stars. some kind of spaceship/astronaut thing.

Day 5: Birds and Fish. Look at books on topic, fish craft

Day 6: Animals and Man: books about the body and animals, wild animal video. Pretend to be an animal, and everyone has to guess which one. Trace around child's body on butcher paper, and they fill it in with drawing. Make gingerbread men.

Day 7: Rest!

We all had a lot of fun, and I hope to do something like this again in the future. It's amazing what you can do with just a little effort.

And Chaim found a really cool lizard outside.

Now, we are getting ready for our move....only 4 more days in our house. Big changes are ahead! Shabbat Shalom

Yoni

Yoni's getting so big....at four months, he's happy to play on his tummy and is very interactive. He is a very happy baby, full of smiles and giggles. I have no complaints about him at all. He's wonderful.

more vacation pictures

My Summer Vacation

Well, we broke away, Chaim and I, for an adult vacation. Our Mother's Helper will be leaving soon, and this was our chance. So we went to Eilat, Israel's "Carribean."

Just as we had unpacked and were beginning to settle in, I noticed that there was quite a sizable fire burning at the far end of the complex. The hot desert wind was blowing it our way, and we soon received instructions to evacuate. We re-packed.

At 11 pm, we were still waiting for our room in another hotel. We eventually got into one, after needing to make it up ourselves, and ate dinner, after having the order forgotten, around midnight. The rest of the trip followed suit, and we never were able to just relax and have the freedom that comes with knowing that no more major changes would take place for a few days.

We did enjoy our surroundings and each other; we went snorkeling and scuba diving (even I went, for the first time) on an all day boat trip, we lounged by the pool and appreciated the scenery.

It was good to be home, though.