January 2012 Updates: Our Last Month in the House in Mortlake

Breakfast together with good company

Morning tea together

Left: both girls enjoy “Parpar Nechmad”

Tucking into dinner

More dinner dramas

As you can see, we can’t really eat at a table as the house is becoming

more and more cluttered by boxes.

Hahgoot wanted only bland food and lots of pasta for dinner, but enjoyed colourful fruit

We really were visited by Santa

Claus! Our friend Claudine moved

house (again) and filled our porch with toys, clothes, a kids’

sofa and carpets, and these two great doll

prams!

Alma was especially thrilled!

Hahgoot was most impressed by this giant castle

The toilet really makes flushing sounds and movements!

Alma the sticker expert giving Dorothea precise instructions

Alma enjoyed singing into this echoing microphone (from Claudine)

The girls tried to go out on a trip with the new dolls’ prams

Hahgoot lost interest after less than 5 minutes and Alma was left to care for

both dolls.

Then Hahgoot tripped over, fell and went into a

wild meltdown on the sidewalk

(by the amount of screaming you could think

she lost a limb!)

When I managed to get back with two prams, two dolls, one toddler and one screaming child, I put an ice pack on the tiny scratch, band aides on both girls (Alma insisted to

have one too) and put the Muppets show on TV.

Here you can see Hahgoot is laughing again, thanks to “Manah manam”

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ&feature=related ).

Left: silly echoes in a bucket

Right: working on a collective artwork

Left: dancing with the Mummenschanz on the Muppets Show

Right: watching Smurfs and YouTube together

The ladies are off on a trip with the prams

“legs up the wall” in unison

Left: Alma likes to see music videos for kids on YouTube before she goes to bed

Right: I cleaned and refilled the bean bag that Chat-chat passed away in.

Barak celebrated his 42nd birthday. This year I decided that his birthday treat will be a day alone at the shopping centre. He actually enjoyed it very much: browsed in bookshops, drank coffee slowly while writing poetry and

philosophical notes, and... read books.

Hahgoot made him a birthday card.

In our next presentation:A trip to the aquarium with aunt Debbie, packing is completed, and we move house –

all in a matter of few days!