Tyler Samuel and Remi Hazel: Daddy time, passover and just day to day life...

Well, this post includes a mish mash of everything. While mommy was away, daddy, Remi and I went to an Indian baby naming ceremony for my friend Leela's baby brother, Jay. The ceremony was nice, but playing with Leela afterwards was definitely the highlight for me.

On to passover, once again we were able to celebrate Passover with our AWESOME Ann Arbor family. Friends drove from near and far (3 hours) just to attend the Goldstein seder. The total headcount by the end was 22 people. Daddy and I did lots of work while mommy was away to prepare for the seder and then the Monday of Seder was a wee bit crazy at our house, or shall I say, mommy was a wee bit crazy, trying to get the house ready and cook for 22 people. BUT, by 5:30, everything was done, the table was set and we were ready! During the seder I stood next to daddy and belted out the 4 questions in Hebrew, my preschool teacher was so proud when I told her what I had done. We ate lots of matzoh ball soup, made a seder parade, I found the affikomen and of course, the grown-ups drank too much wine... We used the matzoh cover I made at school, the bitter herbs that I grew from scratch and Elijah's cup was a true work of art that included spiderman stickers! This was by far my favorite passover to date and I'm still dayenu!

With the start and end of Passover falling on some of my school days, I've been able to stay at home (school was closed) and spend some quality time with mommy and Remi. With our extra time, mommy has been able to plan more fun and exciting things for us to do. On one of our days, we visited the botanical gardens, met up with some friends, had a picnic and drew out the 10 plagues in sidewalk chalk and that was just in the morning!