I am a big believer in Juicing

Hi. My name is Madeleine Sofia Dermansky. Call me Maddy. To start off my day I like a nice glass of vegetable juice. Don't you? The key to juicing is pushing raw vegetables into the machine. So get up and do it.

Daddy: Some mornings I don't want to get out of bed, much less juice. But Maddy demands action and I respond. Soon she'll be three and will demand to move out of her crib into a bed. Adina fears she will jump out of bed and start organization projects in the middle of the night. I say, if she wants to organize our house, let her.

Spring Sprung Homespun

Here I am in sunny San Diego for Grand-ma Renee and Grand-pa Charles' 50th Wedding Anniversary Party. There was a Rabbi and a Mariachi band and chocolate strawberries and Fajitas. When I get married I want a Mariachi band to follow me around for my entire honeymoon. That way when I want to dance I'll have a band ready to go!

I am ready for spring. I've been super busy! I bought a Scholastic Children's Dictionary. It's a giant book but I only paid a dollar because it was a used book sale.

Michael: I agree with everything Emma says. The other day she started up the computer and clicked on the date program to check the date. I didn't teach her how to do either of those computer steps. She picked out a dictionary and today looked up the words, VINE, FISH and THE. Plus she is recommending vacation locations. Soon she'll be 6 and be ready to take over the Blog completely.

COMING SOON: MADDY SOFIA DERMANSKY WILL GET SOME BLOG ENTRIES OF HER OWN!

Rockefeller Tree

I went to American Girl, a three floor store on Fifth Avenue which only houses dolls. I bought a doll named Elizabeth. Maddy got a baby. Mommy took me through the store. Daddy walked out of the store and appeared when it was time to go to the tree. I was getting tired so he took me to Ben and Jerry's, which was in an underground mall, under Rockefeller Center.


Here is Adina with the girls at American Girl. It has been a great holiday season. Maybe we've had enough memories for 2010 and Christmas should be celebrated on the 18th. In my mind it is on the 18th, and that is that. Wishing you all a merry merry, tomorrow, the 18th.

Chanukah Dreidel: Spin, Spin, Spin

Wow! This year Chanukah was on December 1st, way before Christmas. Being Jewish is all about being completely unpredictable. My dad told me some days I may get two presents, others 4, some one and some none. "You just don't know what's going to happen," he said. Well, today was the last day. Things I got: a pipe cleaner vase kit, Cinderella book, a journal, stamp blocks, cool building blocks (from Grandma), Leapster (I picked out at Toys R Us!) and weird doo-dads and a lot of chocolate money I already ate.



Daddy: After eight days I really needed to nap. Her teachers, so she said, told her on the eighth night you get your really big present. I didn't know about that tradition. Ugh, I thought. What is considered really big. Fortunately, Emma forgot about the really big present idea, and was happy to go with the "anything goes" Chanukah format.

Who Blows Up the Balloons?

Who blows up these balloons. I can blow up a little balloon, but not a giant Kermit the Frog. One day I'd like to have a blow up apartment. I'll just get someone to blow it up and I'll live in it. I could hop around in my bouncy castle.



Daddy: Anything is possible, maybe the hip families of New York will live in bouncy castles. Maybe the hippest ones already do. Going to see the balloon get blown up is challenging. Thousands of people get funneled into a fenced in side walk, around the Museum of Natural History. The kids can see nothing, so I had Emma on my shoulders for over a half an hour. All the dads did it and now we're all seeking out a chiropractor.

Halloween

"CANDY, CANDY, CANDY!"


I over heard Emma explaining to Maddy, "It is the greatest day ever. You walk around getting CANDY and then you eat it." Maddy ate some after every door. At bed time she was chanting, "CANDY, CANDY, CANDY."

Sister Julie took these fantastic photos.

Halloween is comin', life in a box and I made homemade Playdoh!

Pre Halloween festivities at Weekday's school parade.


Look Mom, I made it: Homemade Playdoh!


There is a lot you can do in a box!

I've had these homemade Playdoh instructions since pre pre K, or the TWOS. But, YES, we got all the ingredients, flour, color dye, salt, Cream Or Tartar and we made pink and yellow playdoh! You can even eat it.

Daddy: I was intimidated, buying ingrediants such salt and Cream Of Tartar, but, with Emma's help, I was able to make homemade Playdoh, which is soft and edible.