Andrew Decorates His Torah Cover

Andrew is having 1st grade consecration at Hebrew school on Sunday morning, and in preparation we had to decorate a piece of felt that they will use for a fancy cover for the 6 inch Torah Scrolls they'll give to him.

He and I finally sat down to work  on his Torah cover this afternoon. I'd bought some fabric paints so he could draw on the felt. And I hunted around all over the house until I could find some Hebrew letter stickers I'd bought ages ago so he could write his name in Hebrew. While I'm hunting through the letters trying to find all the right ones, he's oozing paint all over his cover. I bring the first three letters for his first name - Barak - and tell him that's what the letters spell. And he says, "Mommy, that goes here" and points at some yellow stripes he's painted on the top of his torah cover and then explains to me that they're lightning (we've got a CD of Hebrew songs he loves that have a song about thunder and lightning, and at some point I'd explained to him that was what his first name meant). Pretty cool, huh? But wait, there's more ...

I write the word Barak on a piece of paper so he can put the stickers on in the right order and then he sticks the letters on his Torah cover. And then he points at the letter Bet and says, "Mommy, it's missing the dot that goes in the middle." So he draws one with black paint.

Andrew Singing

Andrew was singing some music (without words) this morning that sounded familiar. I said, "I know that music, it's from Star Wars, isn't it."

Andrew said, "No, it's from Harry Potter. You probably got confused because John Williams wrote both of them."

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Andrew Lost Teeth - Both Kids Write to Tooth Fairy

Andrew lost a tooth last night (and another this morning!)

Last night he wrote a letter to the tooth fairy. Ali, meanwhile, remembered that she hadn't let the tooth fairy know about a couple of recent lost teeth so she wrote a letter too. Here's their letters (plus a translation for Andrew's

Text of Andrew's letter:

Dear Tooth Fairy, I still want [to keep] my tooth. You might remember where my house is. From Andrew to Tooth [Fairy] This is my second tooth [to fall out].

Andrew's having fun

Andrew was playing on the Wii (video game) tonight and he said to me:

Mommy, want me to tell you something?

The more harder it is the more funner it gets ... and it's really hard!

A great story by Alison

Alison was assigned a class exercise to write a story about a playground fight between two friends. I think this is fantastic!!