Shabbat and Spider Pavilion

On Yom Kippur Pere and I recommitted ourselves to observing Shabbat as a family. Last night we lit the candles and had some challah and dinner at home. This is a picture of Z building a LEGO town in the dining room after dinner. The Shabbat candles are on the table behind her. She has her own candle to light, she even holds the match. Then I say the prayers, then Pere says the prayer over the wine and then Z sings a prayer song over the challah.



This morning we took Z to the Natural History Museum members only kid's event.We met some friends there (Hi J., E., and O.)

It was at the Spider Pavilion exhibit. It is for 3 - 5 year olds and some of it was kind of too young for Z, iike they sang Itsy-Bitsy-Spider (which is a good song) and said that the "secret word of the day" was Arachnid. But Z did get the pet the tummy of a taratula and see a garden spider spin a web around a cricket and see many more spiders in the pavilion.







One of the docents told Z that this spider (can you see the spider she is pointing at? Is Charlotte from Charlotte's Web. Did she not read the book? Or is this the reincarnation of Charlotte? Or did perhaps she mean that this is the same kind of spider that Charlotte was supposed to be?


for a craft they made little parachutes that they attached to a cut-out spider's spinnerets. Then the kids flew them with the help of a fan.



For lunch we went to our new mall. The line for the carousel was too too long but we did get to have our crepes. :)





Then Z wanted to play on the computer so she did her SpongeBob typing (she is up to 7 words per minute) and then Kid Pix (I love that program!). She has also taken to reading the Old Testament to herself when Pere is reading from the Torah. She told me today that she got to the part where Cain killed Abel and now Cain has to walk the Earth alone, forever. Perhaps I should have a talk with her about that...

We stopped over at the neighbors for a bit and Z got to play with her little friend S.

She also helped Pere make dinner - fried chicken and fancy mac and cheese (with Gruyere).

It was a nice day!