Thursday, March 13, 2008

Micah jumps

We had dinner at Ben & Eleanor's house. Ben's dad sent us this nice video of Ben and Micah jumping on the bed. Fortunately, no one fell out and bumped his head.

Fun with Shira

Last night we had dinner with neighbors Ity, Adi, and Shira. What did we do before dinner? I'll give you a hint: "cat" is to Micah as "_____" is to Zack. Ok, the picture gives it away...



That's right, we watched some scenes from The Jungle Book (movie) featuring King Louie (Zack's first word, as "cat" was Micah's).

After dinner, we read some books in English and Hebrew (Shira speaks both)...



... and then had a frantic rapid activity period (FRAP).





Grandma & Grandpa's gymnastics footage

These videos may someday help explain why Micah didn't grow up to be a gymnast:





Ok, to be a bit more charitable-- Micah did have fun on the trampoline:

Saturday, March 08, 2008

Best. Playground. Ever.

On the way out of Monterey last weekend we stopped at Estero Park. Holy Higgs bosons-- do they know how to build playgrounds there!

There were tunnels:

bridges:



sand:



and slides:



But these paled in comparison to the main attraction. Micah must have thought he was in heaven when he saw the real, live...choo-choo engine!!!

Monday, March 03, 2008

Transcontinental Funk-Off

Cousin Joey has been stripping down and funking out with George Clinton and his Flashlight. Here's some archival footage of another Funky Kingston jam session with Toots & the Maytals. Watch Micah bop 'til he plotzes. Sadly, we lost Micah's dancing necklace at the beach in Santa Cruz. This evening Micah requested Toots again and before the music came on he asked for his necklace. Sniff.

Monterey Bay

We had a busy weekend on the Monterey Bay. We went down to Santa Cruz to visit Rachael and Rodrigo and assist them in consuming the 10 pounds of garlic thay had on hand--one of Rodrigo's "perks" as a produce buyer for Whole Foods. Here we are at New Brighton Beach, enjoying the sand and surf:



We left Sunday morning with garlic sweating out of our pores and headed 45 minutes South to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

There were jelly fish:




And tidal pools:




Beautiful vistas:

Micah's buddy, "Black-white!" Black-white" otherswise known as a male sheepshead fish:




Missing gan-ma and gan-pa


Micah enjoyed the photos grandma and grandpa G sent us of their recent trip to visit us. He pointed out "gan-ma" in this photo amidst excited "Choo-choo! Choo-choo!" pronouncements. This photo was taken while Zack and I were on a date at our partners acro-yoga class. Grandparents are the best.

Chep-up


"More, more, more chep-up!" I write these things down so that when months have passed I will remember how Micah would pronounce ketchup. I've stopped correcting him. I rather like "chep-up". Unfortunately Micah rather likes chep-up too, and now his dinner is merely a vehicle for the chep-up and the condiment is the dinner instead of the other way around. I've taken to switching chep-up with tomato paste which makes me feel better given it hardly has any sodium and lots of vitamins C & A and decent dose of fiber. Micah hasn't noticed as long as its red, saucy and prone to stick to everything: