Willie
and Teddy's Excellent Adventure
Ah, spring break, and our chance to enjoy the great indoors. As per usual, papa is trying to encourage us to go run around outside, but we've stuck to our principles and roundly refused. We have seen 4 episodes of Star Trek, programmed on Scratch, read email and cleaned toilets. We even managed to get meals into ourselves and got dressed before noon, but not on Saturday. Teddy has been practicing cracking and flipping his eggs. Willie's class had 5th grade plays on Thursday afternoon and evening. His class did 100 Dresses. Mommy wasn't feeling well so she couldn't make it to the plays, so Willie pretty much did all the dialog for her. Papa did some too--he saw the show twice.
So the funny part of this picture is that this is Will, but not Willie, at our final meeting of chess club for the year. Speaking of Willie, he's still around, just not in pictures this week--papa didn't do a good job of capturing us with the camera. Better luck next week.
This is chess coach Elston. He played EVERYBODY in chess club on the last day and some of the kids were hanging on at the end, but we didn't stay around long enough to see if they knocked him off.
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Cheez-it--it's the camera. We really did play a couple of games, and only messed up one game from frustration.
We like decorating cookies really a lot, but we don't eat them. Maybe if they were Jo Jo's we'd eat them.
I eat mine, but then I don't use betty crocker frosting on them. Food coloring, yes.
A tribute to Clubby. Later I added eyes and a little brown nose. I left the silly putty off.
SHAKIES! Oh my, cookie decorating is soooo much fun.
Willie's cookies are the left and center columns, and Teddy's are the right column. Mmmmm, don't they look delish?
After my (willie) playdate last weekend, my computer disappeared. 
Being who I am, I think I acted apropriately.
Then yesterday it showed up again. Scratch, here we come! 
But wait, what's this? A huge box? Papa's been holding out on us.
Now, just because we're playing in the toilet box does not make us pieces of anything.
Clubby says so too. Now, on to business. The Box Creature game.
Here's how the game works. I get in the box, and Teddy gives orders to the box which the box has to do without question or suffer the consequences.
Wait a sec--I'm not supposed to know the identity of the creature. Do it again, and this time anonymously please. That's better. Now, on with the show!
Sometimes, and we mean not very often, we absolutely have to read the same Tintin book at the same time, so I (teddy) says 'all aboard.'
When do you think Willie will notice that I'm reading over his shoulder so to speak.
Hey, what's this lump of so and so on me? Can't a guy read in peace?
Siamese boys, connected at the ear.
Hey kids, check out my purim mask I made at hebrew school. I came home with a green nose too, the result of a proximity alert not going off on the green pen I was smelling at the time.
Dang, this mask is trying to rip mine ear off--oy, mine ear, mine ear!
At least it isn't trying to rip your botto off--thank goodness for small favors.
Mmmmm, donuts. Papa went out for a little while and when he got back he had this box filled with donuts. I (willie) had a chocolate covered one and and a powdered sugar one and Teddy had TWO chocolate covered ones. It doesn't take much to please us, but donuts go a long way.
We've making making custom fortune tellers (some people call them cootie catchers) and you never know what misforture may befall you when you get yor fortune read. For instance, one of the fortune tellers we made says 'you will die' for every flap except one which says 'try again.'
'Try again.' Phew. Safe for another turn.
When we got home from hebrew school we discovered that Papa got busy! He'd been fermenting dough all day yesterday and today he cooked up these tasty loaves. Mmmm, fresh crusty peasant bread!
Aviv (pictured) and Noah came over for the evening so that Tzachi and Lara could have a hot date--well, not really a date, but it was thing at the Shul that kids weren't invited to. Outrageous, sez we.
Reading tonight happened in my room. I made myself a little nest on the rug and got comfy.
Somebody moved the mattress off the lower bunk so I had to sit on hard slats, and eat maggotty bread, and drink musty water, and walk uphill both directions and wore rags and more awful stuff like that. Leave me alone--I'm mad.