April 6, 2004
Pinkeye-Alonim-Zippori
Scott started off the week with a team building activity. Lots of games, food and fun instead of work. It was great.
On Monday, Tyler woke up with pinkeye and said his ear hurt. So we went to the doctor, and sure enough he had eye infections and an ear infection. He was pretty brave for the doctor, but he hates his eye medicine and begs us not to give it to him. The doctor gave Tyler a stick-on tattoo of a boy riding a bicycle. Tyler pulls up his sleeve so it is always visible.
On Tuesday, Scott started to feel sick too. He stayed home Wednesday and Thursday, spending most of the time sleeping.
On Friday, we felt healthy enough to venture out to a pre-Passover activity, sponsored by Intel, in a small town named Alonim. We went to a flower field and picked flowers. They also had inflatable trampolines, a ball pit, pony rides, cotton candy and popcorn. Tyler loved the ball pit and wanted to take a purple ball home. Purple is his new favorite color, replacing pink. He didn't want to jump or ride a pony, and he didn't want any cotton candy. He did carry around, eat and spill lots of popcorn. He loved walking in the flowers and picking flowers to give to Brooke and his mommy.
Cotton candy and flowersAfter picking flowers, we ate at McDonalds with our friends James and Heidi, whose kids wanted to play at the playplace. Tyler was thrilled that there was a ball pit and played there happily for some time. Later, Scott went to check on him and found him crying. Tyler could get into the ball pit, but he couldn't climb out. Scott rescued him and Tyler played next to the ball pit. The next day he told us he won't cry the next time we go to McDonalds.
Outside McDonald's ball pit.After lunch, Tyler wanted to drive the car on a carousel. Tyler made it two times around before he decided he didn't like it. They stopped it, let him off and gave us our money back. We think the problem was that he couldn't see us half of the time.
Merry go round - before the tears.
We then went with James and Heidi to Zippori, famous for its mosaic floors dating to 400 AD. The city started out as a Jewish settlement in 100 BC and was even the location of the Sanhedrin about 250 AD. Later, during the Roman period, it was the capital of the Galilee. When the Crusaders came, they built a citadel and were soundly defeated. The excavations at Zippori are a major project of Duke University. We walked through the now dry aqueduct system for the city.
Aqueducts at ZipporiBrooke turned six months old. She is growing up too fast. She now rolls from her tummy to her back so quickly, that we call it flipping, not rolling. She is a very social little girl, and often distracts the translators at church by smiling and cooing.
Brooke flipping over (video, may take some time to download)
Brooke looking cute
Military ship through our telescope
Tyler-isms:
Spacket - Basket (as in shopping cart or laundry basket).
My bicycle boy is really fun - Reference to his stick-on tattoo.
That car doesn't have a mommy in it - Tyler is very concerned about the number of cars like this.
Mommy, you tell me if Tyler wants it - Tyler is very decisive.
I waked up too early, so I have to take a good long nap - Amen.
I want the scale to tell me who I am - Sorry, it just gives your weight.