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qilora i was a bit rushed with that entry i put up yesterday (didn't even edit it, so i hope it's legible), but i just remember that i forgot to tell how this conversation with Melody started (i should be calling her Neh'ima, but give me a couple of days to mentally accept this haha)...
how the conversation started is that i was in the salon (doing schoolwork/reading) and Melody was performing for the little ones, pretending that she was at a concert and singing "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" for Olivia and Manni... in the middle of the song, that is when she came to me and interrupted my reading with "ima, my name is Ofra now, okay?" (renaming herself after Ofra Haza)....
forgive me for being hyper-superstitious, i was hesitant to agree with her, "why Ofra, sweetheart? is this because you don't have a Hebrew name?" (forgive me, i never gave her a Hebrew name, i wasn't at all observant when i had her about 8 yrs ago).... she agreed with me saying that i had a Hebrew name and so do Olivia & Manni (my birth name is Ester (Juju is a nickname), and her name is "Olivia Gila" and his actual name is "Darcy Shneur Zalman"**)
this is why yesterday, i needed to take a break from my work, soonly, and look up the Hebrew translations of the word "melody"....
oh, and something has popped up for Olivia... well, she is about 2 years old, and i was having a HELL of a time keeping her dressed... she was a wannabe-nekkid-baby... the only thing that helped me catch her and dress her again was that she loves to give off a high pitched squeal (and i mean HIGH pitched) as she got naked.....
just recently we were visiting with local friends (Jonathan and Bryan), and i heard that squeal (and i broke into a sweat) and got up from our tea and tried to find Olivia in the salon... but this time i found that she had not only stripped herself but also undressed Manni, and then she pulled her dress onto my little man and was trying to pull his pants up her legs (they didn't fit, she was too big for them)... and when i tried to get the pants back from her she started crying and hung onto them.....
SO, i wondered if i could just dress her in pants from now on (no more dresses) and see if she would keep them on... for the past week or so, i have dressed her in pants every day and she has NOT stripped herself, not even once.... my fingers are crossed... the only down side is bring her to shul on Shabbat and looking exactly like the little boys (you know how they are with their long hair and barettes, there is no way to know that she is a little girl).... oh well.
shalom! - Juju/Ulla & co.
** btw, i am not fond of the name "Darcy", it is took dark a name, but his father's favorite grandfather was named Darcy... i agreed to it but only if we could call the baby Manni (a fave brother in law of mine, Ulla's husband is named "Manuel Noach" and went as "Manni" when he was growing up)
how the conversation started is that i was in the salon (doing schoolwork/reading) and Melody was performing for the little ones, pretending that she was at a concert and singing "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" for Olivia and Manni... in the middle of the song, that is when she came to me and interrupted my reading with "ima, my name is Ofra now, okay?" (renaming herself after Ofra Haza)....
forgive me for being hyper-superstitious, i was hesitant to agree with her, "why Ofra, sweetheart? is this because you don't have a Hebrew name?" (forgive me, i never gave her a Hebrew name, i wasn't at all observant when i had her about 8 yrs ago).... she agreed with me saying that i had a Hebrew name and so do Olivia & Manni (my birth name is Ester (Juju is a nickname), and her name is "Olivia Gila" and his actual name is "Darcy Shneur Zalman"**)
this is why yesterday, i needed to take a break from my work, soonly, and look up the Hebrew translations of the word "melody"....
oh, and something has popped up for Olivia... well, she is about 2 years old, and i was having a HELL of a time keeping her dressed... she was a wannabe-nekkid-baby... the only thing that helped me catch her and dress her again was that she loves to give off a high pitched squeal (and i mean HIGH pitched) as she got naked.....
just recently we were visiting with local friends (Jonathan and Bryan), and i heard that squeal (and i broke into a sweat) and got up from our tea and tried to find Olivia in the salon... but this time i found that she had not only stripped herself but also undressed Manni, and then she pulled her dress onto my little man and was trying to pull his pants up her legs (they didn't fit, she was too big for them)... and when i tried to get the pants back from her she started crying and hung onto them.....
SO, i wondered if i could just dress her in pants from now on (no more dresses) and see if she would keep them on... for the past week or so, i have dressed her in pants every day and she has NOT stripped herself, not even once.... my fingers are crossed... the only down side is bring her to shul on Shabbat and looking exactly like the little boys (you know how they are with their long hair and barettes, there is no way to know that she is a little girl).... oh well.
shalom! - Juju/Ulla & co.
** btw, i am not fond of the name "Darcy", it is took dark a name, but his father's favorite grandfather was named Darcy... i agreed to it but only if we could call the baby Manni (a fave brother in law of mine, Ulla's husband is named "Manuel Noach" and went as "Manni" when he was growing up)
