Zoe lost her 2nd tooth

Zoe lost her 2nd tooth, well actually, it was dangling and Mama 'took' it out for her.  So now she has a gap and she is very proud of it.  Wonder if the tooth fairy can make it through hurricane Sandy and leave her a present?

Today Zoe went to her close friend Jacob's birthday party at the Eli Whitney Museum and made a remote control car - she decorated it and assembled it.  Pretty cool, huh?

update on visit from the Tooth Fairy

Zoe woke up early today to see what the tooth fairy brought her. She then 'woke' up Zachary, but wouldn't open her envelope until she could share it with Mama and Daddy.  She did find a note from Zachary under her pillow saying "Congratulations" and with 26 cents taped to it.  It was his idea, his money and his secret!
Zoe came in to Mama and Daddy's room and first asked if Mama was the tooth fairy, but Mama could tell she didn't really think this - she just needed to check.  Then she asked if we could come and open her envelope together.  We went to her room (well not Daddy, he keep snoozing) and we opened the envelope and saw all the money - which we counted together: a 2$ bill, 3 $1 dollar bills and 43 cents.  Plus the 26 cents from Zachary = $5.69 cents.  Funny it works out to almost the same as what Zachary got for his first tooth (not that they remember) see the link below:
 
http://zacharyandzoe.blogspot.com/2011/02/zachary-lost-his-first-tooth.html

Then she asked Mama to read the note - which was very sweet and signed with love from The Tooth Fairy.

She will be back soon as Zoe's other bottom tooth is loose too.

As you can compare the pictures - Zachary lost this same tooth first in February of 2011.

 Zoe 10/2012                                                    Zachary 2/2011

Enjoy these pictures of Zoe showing off her hole and the kids together, and compare to when Zachary lost his 1st tooth in 1st grade just 18 mo ago ... wow!

Zoe's 6th Birthday

Zoe Claire at age 6 ... aint she sweet

Zachary gave Zoe a headband making kit - just perfect for the girl who wears headbands everyday.  Zoe posed with each of her presents, and we got Zachary to join her for his gift.

GG and Zadie were with us both for Zoe's party and for her actual birthday.  We celebrated with her favorite dinner and cheesecake for dessert.  Zoe loved the singing and all the celebrating, as you can see by her smile at her candle adorned cake.  Zoe also celebrated that day at school with a party in her class - what a great birthday!

Cousins Josh, Ethan, and Peyton came to visit for Zoe's birthday party and the two princesses spent a lot of time together - we call Zoe the purple princess and Peyton the pink princess.  They are just so cute together and they do love each other A LOT!

Zoe shared her birthday party with her good friend Aliza.  It was a fun party at Andie's Bounce Barn and the girls and all their friends bounced all afternoon.

Family picture at Zoe's party - Zachary looks a little out of it, just not a good smile, but it was hard to get a good shot at that moment as everyone eagerly awaited CAKE.  Happy Birthday to our beautiful girl!

Zoe enjoyed opening each card and present - so grateful this year (wow she has matured so much).  What a great birthday!

Zoe lost her first tooth

Zoe lost her first tooth today at school.  She was SO excited that the school admin sent this picture to Mama.  She got a 'tooth necklace' and although she has questions about the tooth fairy she is expecting a visit from her tonight!  Zachary also wants to give her a present for losing her first tooth.  What an exciting day for Zoe Claire.

Family Camp - Camp Yavneh 2012

We headed up to New Hampshire again at the end of August for Camp Yavneh's Family Camp.  We got stuck in a major traffic jam on the way there ... but we made it.  We had great weather and great fun.  Enjoy pictures from some of the things we did.  

 Zachary and Glenn got up early for the fishing contest and Zachary caught 7 fish this year - can you see the little guy he caught - not bad!

 Zachary and Zoe loved sleeping on the top bunks, but it was a little silly how they changed beds more than once while we were there.

 Making challah for shabbat.

 Eating homemade pita.

 swimming and boating in the lake (agam) was still our favorite activity - we spent as much time in the water as we could.

 The aquatrampoline - both kids ventured out this year and jumped off - can you find Zoe and Zachary in this picture?

 Zachary helped Daddy build our very own rocket.  We launched it several times, but the retrieval was tricky since all the kids wanted to get it.  However by the time we launched our rocket the last time it landed deep in the woods - and stayed in New Hampshire, much to Zachary's disappointment.

 Family picture before shabbat - don't we clean up nice?

 more fun at the agam - couldn't get enough!

Zachary's 8th birthday, a little late

Zachary Avi turned 8 August 15 - we took the pictures and of course celebrated, but never posted the pictures on our blog.  Zachary and Zoe came back on Zachary's birthday from Maryland and Mama and Daddy had cupcakes waiting fo him, YUM!

 Zachary and his best friend Eitan celebrated at a party together - a bowling party, complete with pinball and other video games.  What fun.  A great chance to meet some of Zachary's new classmates too.

 Zachary and Zoe did some good bowling at the party - duckpin bowling!  Also the special black lights were on so their white clothes glowed.

 Tom and Jerry cake looked really cool - although it turned out that the kids didn't like fondant.

Zachary got lots of fun presents - especially some fun stuff from his wish list.  Zachary had a great 8th birthday!