February 7, 2004
Still settling in
Well, another week has gone by. We were disappointed to learn that our shipment from home has not arrived in Israel, even though it had been scheduled to. Scott got a phone call from the airline in Amsterdam, who asked him security questions about the shipment. Apparently the shipment has gotten bumped a couple of times and as of Thursday was sitting in a cargo warehouse in Amsterdam. We are doing fine but are anxious for books for Scott, scrapbook stuff for Tiffany, toys for Tyler and baby items for Brooke.
Scott was asked to teach the youth seminary class every other Sunday. Tiffany will be teaching nursery. Last week our talks went well, we just did prepare enough and so we finished a little early. Today, like every fast Sunday, the Spanish "twig" met with our branch. The meeting today was translated into English, Spanish, Russian and Hebrew. However, most of the meeting was only in three languages, as everyone else in the congregation speaks at least two of the four.
Tyler was invited to a birthday party for the daughter of one of Scott's co-workers. They are a family from Costa Rica who are also here on relocation. It was fun to meet with Scott's co-workers and their families. There was a whole lot of Spanish, some English and a little bit of Hebrew. Tyler loved his ice cream cone and was very excited that his party favors included a "razor," or as we would call it, an eraser.
Birthday partyBrooke has been sleeping for nine hours, at night even, for the past week! We hope it is a trend. She also has a play-mat so that we can set her down to play. It is a good thing that Toys R'Us is in Israel. With how wiggly she is now, we have been nervous about setting her on the couch.
Tyler and Brooke on their playmats
We learned a new way to turn the power off in our apartment. We just need to use the oven for a couple of hours. The brownies we were trying to bake shouldn't have taken that long; we just had a hard time figuring out the oven. The brownies tasted good, we just had to eat the part between the crispy edge and the gooey middle.
Tiffany and Scott had their first Hebrew lessons this week. Tiffany's was here at our apartment and Scott's was at work. We now know how to write and read the first few letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but only in script, not printing. Fortunately, the first two letters were easy to remember: aleph and bet = alphabet.
Tyler's green car
The moon through our telescope