Busy Week

This past week was unusually busy for us, and for some reason I kept forgetting to bring the camera with us on our outings. The girls had a play date on Tuesday, play group on Wednesday, another play date on Thursday, and then on Friday we went up to Phoenix with a friend from our play group. We managed to fit four car seats, two adults and two double strollers in the car! And of course we made room for our purchases from the big outlet mall. I actually only bought two pairs of shoes for Sophie from the Stride Rite outlet. She wears a 7 1/2 now! I also spent $2 so that Sophie could ride the carousel. It was her first time on one and she absolutely loved it! Saturday we decided to take it easy at home because I knew that today (Sunday) was going to be another busy day. Andy and I took the girls to their first Sunday School class, which is called the Torah Tots. The temple had an open house today for new students. Sophie had fun, although she wasn't always interested in doing what the teacher was asking her to do! She got to play pictionary, and she even guessed several of the pictures correctly. Then she made a craft: a seder plate decorated with tissue paper. This was her first experience with glue, and I don't think she liked it too much. After art the kids went outside for snack (challah) and play time. Sophie said that she wants to go to school again, which is a good thing because she is currently on a waiting list for preschool in the fall!

Since we didn't have the camera with us very much this week, I've included some pictures of things that girls have been doing at home. Sophie is getting really good at puzzles, and she can now do the wooden puzzles that don't have pictures on the board for matching. Zoe mostly likes to stand and play the piano, or stand and look at books, or just stand and smile. Check out her teeth! Also you can see how much her hair is growing and how her eyes are getting darker. One new thing that Zoe is doing is dropping things on purpose and then saying, "Uh Oh!" It's really hard not to laugh, and I'm sure I'll regret my smiles and encouragement of her doing this when she's a little bit older!