November 2013: Summer beauties! Left: a monarch butterfly, my favourite, on a bush near our home Right: Hahgoot wearing a dress my grandma Zelda made me and Alma showing off her new sandals

Welcome back to another busy month at the Atzmon-Simon household. Top right: Barak has been absorbed with his Open University studies and could talk only about this. Here he is reading articles from his research during dinner... Misty provided the doll a furry tail scarf...

The busy sisters have been into everything this month: explored the bottom of the bathtub with new goggles, constructed with empty shoe boxes, sorted organic produce and even helped me clean the house (but not too often...)

We tried a new culinary experience: Juice of an organic green coconut! Hahgoot didn’t like it but Alma gave it a go.

The Piza family (Hanna, Miguel, Adrian, and Miguel’s sister, Laura) came over for lunch at our place and we all enjoyed a Greek style lunch with Mussaka and a big Greek salad. Hanna brought cute marshmallow “tea cups” for dessert (bottom left).

The Piza family brought the girls a fantastic present: a “Sylvania Family” dolls house with a family of rabbits. I got a great tea! Left: Adrian and Hahgoot “wrestling” while wearing their weighted vests.

Miguel was so impressed by the crate of wine Barak brought them as a Thankyou gift for looking after us when he was away, that he insisted we come to their place for dinner that night! As usual, the trampoline and rollercoaster models were popular.

Miguel prepared amazing Chinese style skewers with a peanut dip and rice.

Left: building another rollercoaster model Bottom: a musical group session – very noisy!

In our next presentation: More family news!