zoo

i think Ella finished the equivalent of a marathon today, running all over the brookfield zoo -- with aba and Ori :)
in between we saw some giraffes, lions and zoo tenants.

up and down the path



 
 

Chicago

At breakfast, Ella suddenly points at aba and says: "hine Chicago!" (here's Chicago)

singing herself to sleep

(just audio... but i couldn't figure out a quick way to embed it without it being a movie, hence the picture of a twinkling little star).

if you can't fall asleep at night, try playing this in a loop.

bike - ofanayim

the house we stayed at in CA was equipped with a back yard and a couple of wheels :)

ליזרוק

California. 

The ocean was too big to throw rocks into...good thing they have tidal pools

Here's 2!

Umbrella

when the weather looks like this over our house:

it's time to pull out the rainboots and umbrella.

back to our old park

At breakfast, Ella asked (in hebrew): "now Ella and Aba and Ima go together to Moshe and Smadar and Ori?"
seems like Ella misses them a lot now that she doesn't see Ori (and Moshe) at school every day! luckily they didn't have any plans for the morning, so we headed back to our old neighborhood and went down to our old park with them.
we had lots of fun running around (when i say "we" i mean "Ella and aba", i mostly sat i the shade), working on Ella's throwing arm (and making sure she stays behind the line we drew on the floor and doesn't get too close to the edge of the concrete) and just hanging out. at the end it was quite hard to get ella out of there. sorry, the only picture i took was of her showing a great interest in a random tree in an attempt to prolong our stay...