End of July family update

looking outside of the window, i can see the little fountain of the fish pond, a nice little black bird is flying around the yard and the sun is shining. seems like a nice day, but why does it have to be that HOT? for 3 days now we have been living inside a furnace. you actually feel it lees during the day, as i try to get as little out of the house as I can, but at night the house, who got hot from the sun during the day i emitting all that heat inside. HOT.
starting with the weather means everything is ok here. we have been to a weekend vacation last weekend in the Golan heights. we went to visit friends we haven't seen for 2 years and 8 months. they have never seen Lia and we have seen their youngest son when he was 7 days old. but good friends are good friends and it is as if we just saw them the day before. we also went to pick berries from a "berry picking field" where you can pick and eat berries and other fruits. we took some berries home and they made for a wonderful cake that we ate at the dinner for sarits sisters 14th wedding anniversary.
what else is new?
Lia has started to express herself and is speaking in real sentences now. and she sings. all the time. she has like 3-4 songs that she repeats throughout the day. she can even sing a bit in switzerduutch, which is very funny.
i have work here and there in juggling, today i drive 3 hours due south to the desert to make a little fire show. going to warm up the desert a bit...

Lia's second birthday

hello dear readers,
i imagine only a few of you have survived the long wait for a new post, a month has gone by since i last sat down and wrote something here, and a lot has happened since then.
first of all we celebrated Lia's second birthday. We did it twice already, once at home with a close group of friends, which was mostly a friendly reunion for us with friends we don't get to meet that much. It was a wonderful afternoon, the pictures here will probably better describe it than any words i will write.


you can see the birthday for most of the kids was about spending time in the water, the more the better.







and sometimes they came out of the water, after seeing that life outside of the water is not wet enough they went back in






water








and water again








and of course, it wouldn't be a real party without a cake. so we lit some candles and blew them all out again.
















and the pond again









another party we had was in the kindergarten, we brought some food and a cake to the kids and danced and played with them.
again, here are some pictures:




yesterday, grandpa Shaul took us to the safari in Ramat Gan. for 3 hours we saw a lot of animals, from all over the world, some of them in small cages, and some of them free to roam the "vast" spaces of the open zoo area.
pictures, i know you want pictures. here you go:


















beside that, all is more or less the same for us. Sarit works in the same place, no big changes there. I have a little more juggling work now in the summer with 2-3 shows every week for the coming 2 months. i also have a little group of children that come to our house once a week to juggle.