October 21 2012

Celebrate the trees!

Today, Josh very generously took ALL the kids to the arboretum here in Boston. (More properly called the "Arnold Arboretum"). It's considered Boston's "tree museum" and we figured that the gorgeous weather, autumn foliage (couldn't finish this post without once using that word 'foliage', right?) and scooters would be a nice outing, despite the murmurs from the boys in the morning about how great it would be to go to LaserTag today....

Anyway, the kids all had fun (and their mom had a relaxing few hours during which Josh forbade me from doing any housework). The boys tried to video themselves all falling on their scooters onto grass, while Avishai continuously yelled "Earthquake!!" at random times during all the video footage. Talya was happy to be outside and Hila was excited to be re-united with her purple helmet ... in fact, she insisted upon wearing it in the car on the way there as well, just in case ;)

The kids' morning activity. Ariel and Adin arranged a magnifying
glass to put some cheerios on fire.  Avishai protects
himself from "fumes" and I stationed Talya there to supervise :)