Simchat Torah
This evening, I picked Jonah up from school and told him we were going to synagogue. "Yay! I can see Ellie and Ari!" he said. (Ellie and Ari are six-year-old twin girls who also live in Powell and schlep all the way to Temple Beth Shalom.) We happened to arrive at the same time that Ellie and Ari (and their parents), and Jonah was so excited. The three of them spent the service dancing with musical instruments and flags, and then parading around the synagogue. (Even Rabbi Apothaker briefly joined their parade... And this was before the Parade-With-The-Torah part of the service!) Their enthusiasm definitely fit the holiday.
Some other brief Jonah updates: Jonah's drawing ability has taken a gigantic leap forward - his people now (sometimes) have circles with dots in them for eyes, triangle noses, and little sticking-out hairs. He also took it upon himself to write an entire thank you note this morning. (If he is going to do that again, I think he'll need lined paper... but he is definitely writing faster now.) In math, he has apparently learned about tens and ones, and we even discussed how much "five two's" made, so he is thinking about multiplication. He is in an after-school science club, and came home with a story of mixing baking soda and vinegar (he described it as exploding, but not with fire) and a new pet caterpillar. (I am less excited about the caterpillar... I guess it will join Amitai's menagerie.)
Some other brief Jonah updates: Jonah's drawing ability has taken a gigantic leap forward - his people now (sometimes) have circles with dots in them for eyes, triangle noses, and little sticking-out hairs. He also took it upon himself to write an entire thank you note this morning. (If he is going to do that again, I think he'll need lined paper... but he is definitely writing faster now.) In math, he has apparently learned about tens and ones, and we even discussed how much "five two's" made, so he is thinking about multiplication. He is in an after-school science club, and came home with a story of mixing baking soda and vinegar (he described it as exploding, but not with fire) and a new pet caterpillar. (I am less excited about the caterpillar... I guess it will join Amitai's menagerie.)