We go to Shabbat Services regularly at Chabad South Metro Denver in Lone Tree. Elliot often falls asleep on my lap before or after he plays with the other children. But now he’s getting too big for that. I’ll miss it. I wish it was not so boring for him. He does get involved, though — he dresses the Torah when it is ready to be put away. I hold him in my arms on the bimah when I am called up for an aliyah. He sings on the bimah with the other children at the end. He sometimes joins Rabbi Meier for his children’s group just when Rabbi Mintz starts his sermon. But he doesn’t really play with the other kids – they are too young or too old. The ones his age are girls.
I should not have taken this photo because it is Shabbat, but I could not resist. It might be the last time he sleeps on me! Already he can only place his head on my lap. He used to fit his whole body on me, with my support.
