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Hillel is being very cooperative with his sister's antics...
and he sure is a pretty little boy!

(Yehuda Leib, don't get jealous...I think you're gorgeous too!)

Splish, Splash (this was after the bath!)

I've got lots to update you on, but I just couldn't resist posting this picture, hot off the press....stay tuned for more!

We were up bright and early this morning to head out to our new Rokach cousin's bris, and we decided it would be a great idea to bathe the kids before dressing them, figuring that they'd be all dressed for Shabbos when we got home.

It WAS a great idea...except that we hadn't checked the weather forecast.  With unusually hot weather the past week, it would have never dawned on me that it might rain today...but that's exactly what happened.  As the bus pulled into Beitar on our return trip, it was pouring rain- and the looks of glee on my boy's faces should have given me a hint of what they had in mind.  I got off the bus and told them to make a mad dash towards the house- but they were enamored with a huge puddle next to the bus stop.  I just couldn't tear them away...they were having so much fun!

So now they're back in the bath, and hopefully I'll manage to dig up some dry clothes for them for Shabbos!

Mazal tov to everyone on the birth of Shmuel Eliyahu- may we see only nachas and bracha from him and all his family!

Caught red-handed!

(I just found this post in my drafts folder- I wrote it a while ago but must have had to stop in the middle and never actually posted it...enjoy!)

B"H our home is a happy one, but we do try to set some rules to maintain safety and to prevent damage.  Among them are:

1.  Don't pick up the babies without permission, they are not dolls
2.  Don't play with Mommy's baby carrier, it is not a toy
3.  Don't play with Mommy's camera, it is not a toy

Well apparently my angelic children, who never violate their mother's word on purpose, must have had a temporary lapse of memory one afternoon while a high school girl was watching them while I napped (Ahem- I'll be דן לכף זכות that she was busy holding Yehuda Leib and couldn't stop them fast enough).  B"H no harm was done to an of the above items (#1 being the most important!) - I only found out days later, when I was looking through the pictures on my camera, when I found the following incriminating photos:

(Can you figure out who the photographer must have been?!)

A lazy vacation morning

You know how it goes...kids are off of school, its less than a week to Pesach, and you've got tons to do!  So as soon as you're up, you quickly get to work!  Meanwhile the kids slowly start to wake up, and hang around in PJ's while you're busy tackling those dirty cabinets.  Well at one point I realized that it was too quiet- which is usually a sign of trouble. So imagine the feeling when I went into my room and saw this:

The kids were all cuddled up in my bed (except for Yisrael and Nissim who still have school - !) and Bruria was reading them a book - it was a real "Awwwwwwwwwww" moment!

But now I'd better go back to my scrubbing...I just wanted to share this cute moment with you! 

Chillin' Out

Erev Shabbos was a real חמסין (our Mommy checked on Weather.com and it was 97 degrees!) - so while the rest of the family was busy shvitzing while they were getting for Shabbos, we got to lay around in our diapers, nice and comfortable!

Aren't we just too cute?

Grapefruit picking for Leket Israel

Our Doda Racheli and cousin Leora were here visiting for a week, and they thought of a really nice activity, that would be an opportunity for them to spend time with their cousins, while doing a mitzvah at the same time!  There's an organization here called "Leket" which collects surplus food and produce, and helps distribute it to poor people throughout Israel.  One of the things they do is send volunteers out to fields, to pick produce that was either planted specifically for them, or produce which the farmers don't need and would otherwise go to waste.  This produce gets sent to soup kitchens throughout the country, and is distributed to needy families.

So on Shushan Purim, Bentzi and the older kids (I stayed home with the "junior division") met up in a field  near Rechovot, together with a bunch of our other Yunger cousins.  The kids had a nice time learning about the mitzvos that Leket does, and then they went out to the fields to pick grapefruits.  It was fun climbing the trees to pick fruit, and they were allowed to taste the fruit while they were out in the fields (no problems with תרומות and מעשרות that way).

Thanks, Doda Racheli, for the great idea- it was so nice to spend time with you, and to do a mitzvah at the same time made it much more meaningful!  We hope to see you again soon!

(and no, Shifra Yunger did not get married...she must be wearing that silly tichel because its in style or something?!)

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun!

These are the words I found myself singing (from an old  commercial for Wrigley's Doublemint Gum) when I was driving home from the exciting ultrasound where I found out I was carrying two babies.

B"H raising twins really is "Double your pleasure, Double your fun" (not to mention double the spit-up, double the diapers, etc!) but we are really trying to focus on the positive and to appreciate this double-bracha that Hashem has Blessed us with!  

With my hands doubly (sevenfold?) full, I haven't had time to snap many pictures, but here's a sampling -the twins don't really have much matching clothing, but I try to snap a picture when they do wear outfits that match!  (And even on the occasion that I do dress them matching, its rare that they both stay clean long enough to enjoy it!) 

Aren't they absolutely precious?  But since they don't look anything alike, I don't think they'd make it onto a Wrigley's commercial.  Oh well!  Maybe we'll have better luck next time!