Gimel!

Earlier this week, one of Evelyn's classmates shared with the class the Jewish tradition of playing dreidel during Hanukkah, and everyone in the class got their own wooden dreidel. Evelyn emailed Kat about the game, and Kat replied that she would bring some gelt when they visited.

Kat and Ross came over for dinner tonight, and after the girls' baths, we all played dreidel. It was pretty fun playing with five people (Julia and I were one team) . . . . . . but it wasn't long before we all knew who would take the most loot . . . Kat kept getting gimel, which meant she could take all the coins in the pot. I think she spun gimel five or six times in a row! The look on Ross's face mirrored everyone else's reaction: Really? Again?
Julia was such a high spinner, I couldn't even get her hand in this picture. Well, as I'm sure you could guess, Julia didn't exactly spin the dreidel. She just dropped it. And then got excited about whatever she got.

Even though Kat got TONS of gelt, she shared with Evelyn and Julia. Evelyn must have eaten seven pieces of chocolate before we realized what was going on and stopped her.