We had a wonderful Hanukkah, all 8 nights. We ate lots of latkes, doughnuts and gelt. We threw a party for our neighbors and went to a few, including a very nice one at our Temple. The girls were wonderful through the entire service. It was fun to open one gift each night with the girls (what a good way to teach patience...for us and the girls), light the Hanukkiah's and hear the girls recite the prayers. Faye told me, "my teacher, Michele, speaks 3 languages, Hebrew, Spanish and English and I speak 2, Hebrew and English." She definitely speaks more Hebrew than David or I and if she continues at this school, she will definitely be fluent in 2 languages. The girls both had parties at school and helped me make Hanukkah cookies...they also helped me eat them!
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| Maddie at school, in one of her favorite dresses, she rarely wears anything else these days, dresses and tights! |
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| Maddie and one of her teachers, Rania, reading a book at school. |
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| Maddie and her class at their Hanukkah party. |
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| Maddie and Leo enjoying latkes! |
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| Maddie and Mommy enjoying her Hanukkah party! |
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| Hanukkah Gelt |
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| David and I made laktes for our neighbors at our Hanukkah party! |
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| David taught our neighbors how to play driedel...with chocolate. |
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| Driedel, driedel, driedel, I made it out of clay... |
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| and when it's dry and ready, my driedel I shall play, oh... |
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| 1st night of hanukkah love. |
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| We have 4 Hanukkiah's and lit all of them the 1st night (Faye made the one of the left and Maddie the one on the right at school). |
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| Maddie sporting a Hanukkah gift, new dress and sparkly tights. |
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| Faye enjoying her jelly doughnut, a Hanukkah fave, when the girls saw this photo they laughed and laughed. |
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| Maddie opened her favorite and most anticipated gift...Tic tacs from Faye. |
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| Their big gift was a kitchen, it only took David and I 3 hours and a bottle of wine to get through putting this together, David is taking their photo as they see it for the first time. |
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| Mere seconds later... |
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| One of Faye's Hanukkah gifts, we love books! |
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| Maddie opened this gift and put it on right away. |
2 comments:
The girls have gotten so big! We hope all of you enjoyed your holiday and are doing well!
wish we could have played driedel with ya'll!!! Looks like fun!
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