Pool Time!

Cuty Babies

Here's the 4 youngest Minkus grandchildren, at our annual family get-together yesterday! (everyone else was too busy running around...so it was hard to get a good picture!)

(from L-R: Chana Rokach, Shifra Tziporah Blumenkopf, Naftali Yunger, and Leeby Berg)

Do slow songs make you cry???

I don't know if all girls are like this, but I know that at least for (most) of the Minkus girls, a nice, slow song can bring us to tears. I know that it happens to me occasionally when I hear a real heart-rending song, and I've caught a few of my sisters getting teary-eyed too.

Well Bruria takes it to the extreme. She HATES slow songs- every time I start to sing a nice, slow, kumzitzy song before bedtime, she starts to cry and scream, "I don't like this song, it makes me sad!" So I've basically stopped singing songs at bedtime.

But now its gotten even worse...since the kids are on break now, I sit them down and daven with them at home. Every time we get to "אבינו אב הרחמן", Bruria starts bawling!

Oy, girls- you've just got to love them!

Naftali "says" No!

(He's a true Yunger...even as a baby, he won't let himself get talked into something if he doesn't want it!)

Chocolate Chip Therapy

In case you haven't heard of Chocolate Chip Therapy before- its an amazing homeopathic remedy which unleashes tremendous healing powers. Here's how it works:

Upon getting a boo-boo (only non-bleeding), you give your child a chocolate chip (or any other small candy that you have around- winkies or chocolate lentils also work). Tell him/her to press the chocolate chip against the boo-boo, and to continue holding it there until the boo-boo stops hurting. Once the boo-boo stops hurting, they can eat the candy (make it clear that once they eat it, they cannot complain about the boo-boo anymore). You will be amazed at how fast they feel better!

My children have even started to tell me, "Mommy, I have a chocolate chip boo-boo!"

Bruria's first updo

Our neighbor, Devora, is taking a hairstyling chug (after school activity) - and today she decided to practice the new techniques she's learning on Bruria! I was surprised to see how nicely Bruria sat...I don't think I've EVER seen her sit in one place for so long! She loved looking at herself in the mirror (takes after her mother!) and when her hair was finished, she waltzed around as if she was royalty (well, she is the princess of the Yunger Dynasty!)

This one is for you, Chana Raizel!

Chana Raizel made a special request- she said that in all the pictures I take of the kids, they are always smiling and happy. She wanted to see what Bruria looks like when she cries so here it is! (it wasn't too hard to find a moment to take this shot, she's got plenty of crying moments!)