A very Jerusalem day.

Outside of the Israel museum with the wee ones while the adults went to Yad v'Shem:

Lunch in the shuk:

Found a friend with cochlear implants in the shuk!!:

Walking around our old hood:

Dance party in the streets to yeshiva boy techno music:

Shabbat in, Shabbat out.

Shabbat with Beit Eden, a community and living space for special needs children in Modi'in:

The boys flirting with the kids thru the window:

Shabbat morning on Masada:

Made it to the top:

Twinsies:

Enjoying Shabbat services on our tour guides lap:

Exploring and playing in dirt:

Muddying up at the Dead Sea:

Havdallah on the Tayelet:

 

Jerusalem.

It is hard to explain the experience of bringing Amichai into Jerusalem.  The history of the place, collective and personal, makes so apparent the newness of our life with Ami.  And at the same time, it seems impossible that he wasn't with us as we forged our relationship here, to each other and to this city.  The pictures we have gathered thus far have been as special as the experience of being here with him.  Enjoy :)

A blessing with grape juice on the Tayelet, overlooking the whole city:

Our brave boy and his moms on the tunnel tour:

Exploring some ancient stones:

First time to the Kotel as a family:

More fun up north!

Hiking in Tel Dan:

At the northernmost (coldest and windiest) point of Israel:

Ami is our backup bus driver:

And is obsessed with Meir, the ACTUAL bus driver:

Hey Jonah, let's sit in the back of the classroom:

Chocolate factory fun:

Only our Amichai would nurse on an open-air Hula Valley tour:

Though Ami signed 'bear' excitedly the entire time he was near the camel, once he was ON it, his sentiments were a bit less positive: