passover and the plagues

school put together quite a week ful of activities to prepare the kids for passover. they learned about the plagues, the passover seder plate, made placements, hats and all sorts of goodies to lear about the holiday prior to their big seder.

i love coming to these school events even though they are in the middle of the day. its a chance to spend time with asher and see him interacting with his friends and teachers.

the seder began with a service. i got there right in time to see the kids all walking in. i decided not to smother asher and satehind watching him participate in all of the songs and sit so nicely and listen. this is a great improvement to earlier in the year. he struggles with sitting still at circle time, in groups etc. hmmm wonder where he got that from....ughh me. they have tried a lot of different techniques including a weighted doll, chairs, circles on the floor etc. he was truly enjoying himself today and that made my morning.

after the service was over the kids moved to their tables to EAT!

the cutest part about this set up was that two dad's set it up. they did an awesome job. the kids devourd the food and surprisingly didnt go straight for the macaroon (sweet doughy cookie). most of us were surprised....

each child had their own seder plate with different items the parents had brought in

asher inspected his seder plate and deciding what he was going to dig into first!

some of asher's friends and their mommies. cabell and his mommie mae are on the left. mae was pregnant at the time and she just had a baby girl last week, leah and her mommie jessica are on the right and she is pregnant and due in july. there are 7 pregnant moms in our class out of 12. we are all due within several months of each other. all of our kids will be in school together again. crazy.

my silly little monkey

he was watching some live music entertainment during his seder feast

later in the week asher's cough/cold got worse and we ended up having to take him to the dr. we found out he had the beginning stages of pneumonia. this stired up a lot of worry regarding passover seder and getting the whole family together but thankfully we were all still able to get together and celebrate. we all gathered at softa and papu's for passover seder.

we had quite the crowd. softa, papu, all three of us, sissy and uncle rich, nana, poppy, uncle jay, great aunt estelle and great uncle jerry and our friends the dinermans and their family.

the weather we super nice outside so we got to snap a few cute photos

asher and tahli were very excited to see each other

and i got get some sissy snuggles in... and she copped a feel on baby 2

lots of aunt estelle snuggles are required.

tahli loving on her mommy

asher and uncle rich sizing up their shoes...

we enjoyed a lot of play time and snuggles before we all sat down to eat

the big yet not older boys....

mike dinerman, philip and uncle rich

they clearly got the light shirt memo....

mommy and sissy... such a lovely photo of them both

we began our passover seder and everyone settled in at the tables.

strangely asher loved the karpas... the parsley on the seder plate. you dip it in salt water and he was chowing down. evidently his daddy likes it too...

aunt eliza and uncle rich did a great plague presentation with kid friendly plagues.

the kids really enjoyed playing with each item.

i think this one is blindness...

softa put together a really cute kids seder plate.

and as always asher devoured my matzah ball soup.

(he ate matzah ball soup for 4 days after and everyday devoured it and wanted more)

we had an awesome time with our family. some how i managed to miss a lot of photos running around helping out but was glad to capture some of the funny memories we made this year.

until next year...