Of Course

 I took Baby Yoda for his 9-12 month blood count today. Because he is such a very little human (nice amount of pudge, but he still fits comfortably into 6-month clothing) I was going to have the bloodwork done when BY was 9 months old exactly. His 9-month birthday wasn't convenient, so I decided to push off the blood work for a few days. 

Being a seasoned resident of Israel, before pushing off BY's blood work, I checked to see if there was a nurse's strike planned. There was not, so the blood work got pushed off. And then there was a lab worker strike. Of course.

That strike was resolved a while ago, and between this and that, I finally took him in for his blood work today. When I arrived, I learned that I had actually scheduled our appointment for tomorrow. Oops.

During our 45-minute wait for a walk-in appointment, I had reason to be amazed once again at how much BY (like most babies) is absolutely delighted by peek-a-boo.

Seasonal Prayers

Due to COVID-19 (or "Corona," as it's called in this neck of the woods), schools closed just before Rosh HaShana and will remain closed until after Sukkot.

On the first day of this round of school closure, FF's teacher sent a video of what she davens with the kids in school. As we learned during last closure, FF likes davening with a video of his teacher: she sent a video a few days into the Pesach school closures that FF has used ever since, so having an updated version is nice.

However, after he davened with his teacher's video yesterday, he said, "And now we say the special one." I have both some experience understanding preschoolers and a good Jewish day-school education, so I guessed that he wanted to sing, "Avinu Malkeinu." I know this was a good guess, because BSM sang along with me. Or at least, he sang the first few words until FF stopped us because that wasn't the right tefillah. I was stumped, but BSM guessed twice more, and he hit gold on his second guess. 

It turns out that FF wanted to sing the Sefardi piyut, "Adon HaSlichot," and BSM led him through 6 lines before getting stuck. I found the audio in the attached link so they could do the whole thing, and I gotta say that BSM really rocks that Sefardi ḥet.

Achievement Unlocked!

The cleaner at work just complimented me on keeping my office nice and neat. Yes, me. Yes, my office. Yes, neat.

And he's right, too!

Another Milestone?

It's been... what? Seven years since we made aliya? Seven-and-a-half?

A few weeks ago, I finished the contact lens solution I brought with us when we came. Well, finished except for an unopened travel bottle. So I bought contact lens solution in Israel for the first time. Hardly a milestone, really, but it felt odd enough that I decided to write about it here.