DANIELLA completed her third and final year on the Cougar’s basketball team. She was a shooting guard and started every game. This is her favorite sport and she has continued to play at the JCC girl’s basketball league. Last week she scored 15 pts. in her team’s victory.
YONI also loves basketball and aspires to be in the NBA. He is also a starting forward on his JCC team and has an amazing jump shot from the outside.
Yoni made the synagogue team of 5th and 6th graders for the city wide Israel/Zionism Trivia competition…..he is very excited and is spending the next few weeks studying with his team in preparation for this event! [ed.: Mazal Tov, Yoni!]
Eden is on the move! She began crawling at 7 months and 3 weeks old. She loves to explore and is especially curious to see what’s on top of mommy and daddy’s dressers. She also enjoys standing up in her crib and playing peek-a-boo in between the crib slots. She has started to say “MaMa” and “SSSSS” which could be because of Sushi, her cat! Eden also likes to copy mommy’s sounds like clucking and raspberries. Recently, Eden began to really enjoy table food. Her favorites are banana and challah. She also tried cottage cheese and eats a lot of “big girl” food at the JCC.
[Submitted by Mommy Laura!]
ELA’S NEW PERSONA: Ela has taken on a new personality… now she likes to be called “Pinkie Kochavi Cindy!” Pinkie personifies her favorite color; Kochavi means “star” in Hebrew & reflects her penchant for singing & dancing. Cindy denotes her love for the famous TV series, “The Brady Bunch.” Ela loves to draw & learn new words.
THE RESCUE OF GEFEN! Our Gefi “takes a lickin’ & keeps on tickin’!” Whether she “takes a lickin’” from her bro Ben or from other sources she always bounces back! However, the family had a frightful scare the other day when she performed a somersault in her after-school program & landed on her forehead! Upon impact she passed out, losing consciousness. Fotunately, the medically-trained staff at the facility quickly responded by splashing water on Gefi & brought her back to consciousness. As a precautionary measure her parents drove her to the hospital for examination… thank G-d all is well with Gefi! It was such a frightening episode; the family owes the “rescue of Gefen” to Uri, the head of the program! It should be noted that Ruth & Michael were in Herziliya having lunch after a trip to Ikea & had to race back upon learning of Gefi’s unfortunate fall.
BEN THE GIANT: Ben now is in the habit of reading before he goes to bed at night. He passionately loves playing his new Wii; tennis is his favorite game. Ben loves to “wrestle” with Ela in the evenings; Ben calls himself “Andre the Giant.” Ela assumes the monicker, “Jake the Snake.” Another passionate hobby of Ben’s is collecting varieties of stones [Maybe one will turn out to be a valuable gem!]; he also plays outside with his many friends & loves riding his bike. Lately, he has started a notebook with drawings & sketches.
EDEN is 7-1/2 months old and growing in to a sweet and determined young girl. She loves to smile, giggles at silly animal noises and enjoys watching her cat, Sushi, walk around the house. Lately, Eden has been getting into sitting position from laying down and has gotten into crawling position (although she has yet to crawl). As Papa Norb says, she is crawling like a soldier. She is also making lots of sounds and just the other day said “DaDa” for the first time! Eden loves her veggies and cereal but isn’t so keen on fruit and prefers to feed herself even though mommy doesn’t like the mess. She also realized that if she drops her toys from her highchair, mommy and daddy will pick them up for her! Recently, Eden had her first Parent-Teacher conference at the JCC. She received lots of wonderful comments from her teacher, Irene, who said that “Eden is a delight to have in the room. She gets so excited when she hears music and loves being around her friends.” [Piece submitted by Mommy Laura.]