Izzy,
We love watching you grow and become such a special little man. You are truly a special person with so much love, compassion and more creativity than anyone we know. Here is a glimpse into Izzy as he turns six years old!!!
This year once again you grew so much. Both physically (you are now tall and skinny) and developmentally. You learned to swim and bike without training wheels. Your favorites from past years that have continued are your love of creating/making/crafting everything! Your love of Legos and gardening as well as snakes, lizards, worms, dinosaurs and volcanoes! Also, that you are the friendliest kid that I know and will spark up a conversation with a stranger to talk about all of the topics mentioned above. Here is a glimpse of Izzy at 6 years old!
Ooozing art
From the moment you wake up to when you shut your eyes to sleep you are making things. You are one of the most creative kids I know - and as you like to share, “The most creative kid in your class.” Nothing makes you happier than a pad of paper and a pen/pencil/crayon. This year you have taken sculpture, Summer ‘Maker’ Camp, Art & Soul at Hausner, Saturday clay class with your dad and best of all woodworking with Tom every Friday after school. You quickly made friends with our 80ish year old neighbor, Tom who also is a professional woodworker in his retirement (of course was one of the very early computer salesmen back in the days of Silicon Valley). Every week you show up to Tom’s garage with an idea and the two of you sketch it out and make it come to life out of wood (mainly with Tom’s help). You have made a table, stool, puzzle, dart, volcano, stand, snake, vase and many, many more crazy ideas. You also like to create different places to play in the backyard. Our side yard may look like we are crazy people to some, but to you it is full of boxes, string, sticks and wood to make something special. To see more Izzy Masterpieces, you can check out his Instagram account.
TV
I love that you still don’t know how to unlock or operate our iPad or tv. I am really hoping you continue to remain innocent from the claws of social media and TV binge watching like your parents can do sometimes😊 Every morning, Saturday nights and when we have to put your brother to sleep while we are solo parenting, you get to watch a show. Over the past six months you have been into any tv show that has something to do with Dinosaurs. You have watched every show on Paleontology on Amazon Prime and Netflix and quickly watched every episode called Dino Dan and Dino Dana. You tend to be drawn towards any documentary shows or ones where you can learn something like Planet Earth. You also like cooking competition shows – lately, your favorite is Zubo’s Just Desserts.
Food
You still tend to be open to try most foods and are a good eater (when you want to be). Lately your favorite foods have been Caesar salad and olives. At school for the first few months you told me that the main reason you liked school is because of the jelly sandwiches (that’s an expensive Jelly sandwich). Inspired by your cooking shows you also like to make sauces. I am constantly buying olive oil and spices because you are using them to make a special sauce for your salads or to dip bread. Whenever we eat at a bagel brunch you always have the most creative sandwiches with cream cheese, lots of lox’s and lately adding fruit on top….and eating every bite!
Books
Very similar to the TV you are into any books about dinosaurs or animals. Every Wednesday you get to visit the library at school and pick a book and every single week you come home with a book about dinosaurs. You also went through a phase over the past six months when you wanted me to read you cook books. We’d go through cookbooks and mark the foods that we’d want to make. One of the books was called Jerusalem and it actually had a lot of interesting stories about foods in Israel and Palestine.
Cool and casual
You are still a tshirt and shorts type of guy. You are very picky and I’m having a harder time to pick out clothes for you to wear as you have your own idea of which tshirt and which shorts you’d like to wear that day. Lately you have been dressing in the same color to mimic a type of dinosaur. You have noticed that when you dress up nicely (like in your white jacket) people will start to notice you and make comments on how good you look. Thank goodness California is casual because you do not own any nice pants! One funny thing is that you love to wear soccer socks really high like they are leggings. Of course, thanks to your Bubby, you have an amazing Canadian wardrobe that you still sport often.
Being Jewish
You continue to LOVE being Jewish and still don’t realize that only a very small percentage of the world is Jewish (unlike how your mom grew up in Griffin, GA!). Now that you are in a Jewish Day School you are just loving the Hebrew. You say, “Shalom” to everyone and started calling me Ima!
We get a chuckle that your favorite song right now is the Israel National Anthem, Hatikiva. You often ask Alexa to play the song for you (and your Dad request to play the Canadian National Anthem right after) and we will hear you singing this around the house.
Playing
Love to create booby traps. Create paper airplanes, tie everything together with string (which you call sew), LOVE sewing, playing in your fort (or tree) in the backyard. Creating forts with the couch pillows. And of course love to find, catch, hold, play with worms/lizards/frogs anything creepy and crawling.
We can’t wait to see what this next year brings!
Love
Mom & Dad & Solly
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