Recent family photo by Enna-Marie...

from R-L: Enna-Marie, daddy Maarten, mommy Menchie & baby brother

EM's recent writing & drawing...

learning to write the alphabet, from letter A-I

...continuation...from letter J-P

learning to write her name

also writing some numbers

artwork 1

artwork 2 (the 3rd drawing she said is her "Oma")

September-October photos...

a big smile at Tara's 3rd birthday

new hairdo

busy with hand painting

visit to Chava, EM's previous teacher in Gan

wearing her favorite Mauritian skirt that she makes a dress

swimming at Zelon, Tiberias

camping at Zelon, Tiberias

camping at Zelon, Tiberias

with Lara & Sina Alavi who recently came for pilgrimage

our family

Menchie's birthday

daddy & daughter dancing together

EM blowing the candles with mommy

family portrait, EM didn't want to smile...at all!

friends Rhea, Sieni & baby Leily

Moras & Kerstens

as always we take our group photo (EM & Tara are coming down & didn't know that there are 3 shots being taken)

Visit to Science museum

Enna-Marie and I together with our friends Selvi & Lillian, Cllyv & Sheehan recently went to a Science museum in the city. See photos below for the adventures of our trip.

first we saw an aircraft that was displayed outside

then we went to a room full of different wooden games



EM trying out a game with different shapes

Selvi also trying one game about disentanglement.

the girls looking at the 'earth', a display in one of the rooms

outside the girls riding on one of the beautiful & colorful dinosaurs

unfortunately our friends didn't finish the trip so they left the museum much earlier, but not EM who had the energy to see more inventions in this building..here she is resting before we continue the trip.

learning the traffic light rules...EM patiently waiting while the red light was on!

..and there she goes!

air balloon invention

EM cleaning & brushing teeth, a display that they had in one of the rooms



she found a place that she thought can be a stage, she did sing couple of songs :-)!

mirror invention

a mirror that makes you a bit taller

...& another one where you become chubby-ier...

an invention where as you keep on spinning different results occur, I think it contains gray sand.

...like this one...



floating balloon

this was the kids favorite...

and before we headed home, we went back to the play area, here a girl was entertaining the children by telling a story using different animals

EM goes to new Gan

Our preschooler recently started going to a new gan that is closer to our home (good for mommy now that she doesn't have to drive for 15-20 minutes every day, her arms got sore in the beginning of the year..he..he..). This is Enna-Marie's second year and it is going pretty well. She already made some new friends, and in general enjoys going to school (although now that she's been home for most of the Israeli Sukkot holiday, she had a hard time getting back into the routine this morning).

The pictures below show her new teacher (first picture in the middle), her friend Aliyah, who also transferred from her previous gan, and new friend Scarlet (third picture to the left). They were taken on the first day of the school year.