Elmo returns!!

Elmo was greeted up and down the streets of Berkeley - a very popular trick-or-treater!! Everyone loves Elmo (especially Rikki).

Younger man in her life...

Rikki has taken a liking to my friends' son Ronen. He is only two, but has the verbal skills of a three-year-old and a sweetness like Rikki's. It's cute to see her protective attitude toward him ; )

Her own violin!!

And boy is she happy about it!'.

Gettin' ready ...

The victorious conqueror!!

Yes, she did it!!! She scaled the mountain of stuffies, conquering them all!'

Fiddling around ...

But ... the fiddle is pretty fun too!! Stay tuned to find out which instrument she pursues first.

To cello or not to cello?

Rikki wants to take cello lessons ... Here she is at family music day trying one out.

Monkey girl

Rikki got to wear a monkey costume for "pretend Shabbat" at her preschool because the kids enacted the noah's ark story from last week's Torah portion. The next day at services, the kids did an animal parade and she got to wear her owl pajamas! And Halloween is still coming!

Crabby girls

Rikki and Lilah doing the crab...

On the way to Matan's

Rikki's best new friend at preschool, Matan, invited us over for Shabbat dinner a couple of weeks ago… (yes, due to technical glitches, my posts are weeks behind!) I managed to get her to wear this adorable outfits … and even to put on tights (though they came off the minute we arrived and she saw Matan and his siblings in bare feet…) He has a dog named Tova, so now Rikki has a pretend dog named Tova. On the way to school the other morning, she asked me, "Do you think Matan will be excited to see me?" More posts soon .

Reunited!

Panda bear spent the night at Rikki's friend Clare's house last night... We went to pick him up first thing in the morning since its not easy to sleep without him.

Today was a scorcher. Lying in bed tonight, Rikki asked, "Can you unsweat me?"

Pam

PJ package!

We are spending a lot of time these days in footie pajamas like these new ones... And hopefully soon I will get some pictures of my PJ-clad package sailing on the bay.