Benny and Sarah, Gili Bril's parents, invited us over for Friday dinner. That was really sweet, especially since Benny came and picked us up. It was a great chance to hang out with the Bril's and their children without the full (and wonderful in its own way) Kallir circus. There is the whole group which includes Benny and Sarah and Asaf and Gili and Itan and Adan and Alit and, of course Liya and Mikael and Opher behind the camera.
Liya and Mikael came down to Beer Sheva on Monday to come with me to Iana Nisky's housewarming party. Ilana is the one holding Mikael in the first picture. She's Amir Karniel's graduate student. He's the one holding Mikael in the third picture. That's me with Mikael in the
second picture. Anyway, the exciting thing was that there was another baby there. She was twice Mikael's age and a little smaller than him and wicked cute. She was more interested in Mikael than he was inher, but he's starting to show real signs of noticing other children.
Liya had morning and evening sessions yesterday, and I felt like I couldn't miss a whole day on a week that was short because of Sukkoth, so we agreed (eventually) that the best thing would be for me to take Mikael with me to the lab. I picked up Ronit Mayo's car (she is in America and kindly agreed that we could use her car while she was gone) and loaded Mikael and lots and lots of milk and toys and blankets and mats and carriers and child seats into it, and headed south into the sun. Mikael was reasonably quiet on the drive down except that he got hungry about 10 minutes before we arrived and spent the last 10 minutes screaming. At the lab he was very happy. There were lots of students to smile at and play with, and lots of new things to look at that he had never seen before. We spent about 5 hours in the lab, meeting students and debuging programs and drinking coffee and doing the other things that scientists do, and then we headed back. He slept the whole way back.
Yoav is a programmer in the lab who is currently an undergraduate.
Ofer is a Master's student
Liana takes care of the cats and she is also an undergraduate.
Here is some rare footage of me feeding Mikael
And, of course, the carrier.
While in Beer Sheva, we stopped at my lab and took our pictures in front of expensive scientific equipment.
Posts
All Comments
