Succot 2012

Succot in Boston,  Chutz LaAretz, is not quite comparable to the incredible holiday in Israel, but we enjoyed the moments that we had between rainstorms :)

I returned from the pizza store to find the boys had assembled the main
frame of the succah with only a little help from Abba! Well done!

We had lots of fun preparing our succa this year despite the rain ALL weekend long. Ariel finally was allowed to use his long-fostered love of.....spray paint! We got white sheets for each child and a bunch of different paint colors and the kids got creative with their designs. Hila became a bit obsessed with avoiding spray paint in her eyes, despite the swim goggles that she wore, and would only dare to direct my hand with the can and choose the colours. (Her ophthalmologist father may have had something to do with that anxiety, I'd think).

Adin's artwork. "Warning: Do not break pitom"

Yes, it says "Happy Spray" on the bottom...
Shall we blame the fumes?

Please note swim goggles for eye protection!

Then we worked on the dessert and activity. Many failed attempts at locating and creating pareve yellow candy melts meant that our cake pops ended up being green etrogim instead (kinda like the ones we used to buy in Israel). The chocolate chip is supposed to be the pitom...not the greatest cosmetic results but they tasted good so I had no complaints.

Hila needed some time to spend indoors away from the paint fumes, so she decorated a mini-sukkah with me. There were copious amounts of white glue used, so it was not surprising that the sukkah was a bit difficult to remove from the dining room table at first try :)  A gumball dispenser from our nearby thrift shop was hidden inside and dispensed yellow candy balls ("etrogim") when the kids answered three succot-related questions correctly at dinner. They opened the little front door and turned the handle and were rewarded with the candies at the bottom.


Demonstrating the hidden dispenser