for hat hair!!!!! Here is an example of this seasonal anomaly.
In case you are afraid that you too many suffer from this, I have included a close up.
If you should have this happen to you, please seek cover with a family member and snuggle under a blanket like so:
Just remember this is not contagious. . . especially if you hardly have any hair!
Remember . . . consider yourself warned as we enter this COLD part of the year.
Tonight at sundown the Festival of Lights begins. This will be JSL’s first Chanukah. Will he understand what is going on around him? No, but he will love watching the bright lights on the menorah. Just four years ago we watched NHL celebrate his first Chanukah. Here are a few photos from 2003.
Please know that we did NOT let NHL light any of the candles. We staged this pose to Photo Shop flames onto the candle to freak out relatives. LOL – it worked too!
Here he is watching all of the candles burning:
I hope to post some photos of our 2007 Chanukah celebration soon. This weekend my brother, sister-in-law and niece (SG) will be in town for a little family gathering/party Thanks to being in Identity Theft HELL – I have not had a lot of time for blogging lately. Lots of things to catch up on soon.
LOL – This just in from NHL.
He asked JL to hold JSL. Then out of no where he said the following:
"Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu, celebrate Shabbat baby JSL!"
If you did not know NHL now goes to a Jewish nursery school (integrated program) and they celebrate Shabbos every Friday. So he did his own take on:
"Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha’olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik ner shel Shabbat."
The above is the prayer for when you light the Shabbos candles on Friday at sundown.
Good Shabbos all!
Where have the days of sleeping late on Thanksgiving gone?
Never mind, they are long gone. I believe the last one was 5 years ago before we conceived NHL. Oh well, the boys are well worth the lack of sleep. Unless I am just saying that thanks to sleep deprivation ;)
Since we are all still in PJ’s here, there are no new photos to share. Instead I wanted to bring back some old memories of NHL’s first Thanksgiving. (photos of JSL’s first to follow soon – his outfit is currently in an emergency wash – Ooops!)
For NHL’s first Turkey Day we went to JL’s sister’s. Here are some photos of the day. Just remember NHL was only 3 months old (JSL is 6 months old today).
Here he is sitting on Grandpa’s lap:
I think he had a little too much turkey milk:
Cousin Sandy watches over sleeping NHL:
All ready for bed after an exciting day with family:
Again may you and your families have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving today and for years to come!
It is hard to believe that the weekend before Thanksgiving is already over. Time just keeps flying past me and I need to remember to stop and enjoy it while the boys are still little.
Friday night we were all exhausted from a busy week post visit to Uncle I, Aunt M and SG. JL and I actually went to bed at 9:00 to warm up and watch television. We fell asleep quickly and were rudely woken up my JSL at about 11:00. He was hysterical. JL rocking him did not work. I nursed him and he was not too thrilled with that. Each time JL would get him to sleep and get him into his crib he would wake up. His head would shoot up and he would start bitch -er chatting loudly. We were afraid he would wake NHL up. Fast forward numerous attempts to when we tried to get him to sleep in our bed. HA! The little monster would pop his head up, scootch over to me, pull up to my face on the pillow and LAUGH! I kid you not this is what my 6 month old did. After a second nursing attempt JL was finally able to get him to sleep and put him into his crib at about 2 in the morning.
Of course NHL was up at 6:30 and woke his little brother up. JL and I were walking and talking zombies. My parents offered to have us go to their house for lunch. They said they would watch the boys so we could nap (never happened). Thanks to little sleep two nights in a row we canceled going out to dinner with friends.
PJ status remained until close to 11:00 when we finally moved our rears to go to the library. My copy of Deceptively Delicious was waiting for me there. We wanted to check it out to see if we wanted to purchase a copy (we did). Before getting dressed JL read to the boys. Here are some photos of this boy bonding time.
Everyone concentrating on the book:
Notice who was flirting with mommy and the camera:
After the library we went to Nana and Papa’s house. Here they had a fun new toy for NHL to use with the cars at their house. Here is NHL setting up some cars:
Ready to race the cars again:
Lunch was really yummy (and nutritious too). Our friends actually stopped by and we chatted with them for quite some time before they left to shop. At about 4:30 we left and went to the grocery store. We got lots of things and were home at about 6:00 when we had to figure out dinner. Thankfully the boys slept nicely the rest of the evening.
Sunday morning we took the boys to the craft and story time at temple. This month was all about Chanukah since it starts December 4th. Here is NHL with his craft (the candles come off and on to "light" ):
After this we ran a bunch of errands (lunch, Kohls, Target, BJ’s) and then went home to make pumpkin pancakes with a secret ingredient!
JSL had a rough evening thanks to teething and still refuses to eat solid food – *sigh* He will tolerate Cheerios and the Gerber sweet potato puffs, but cries and clamps his mouth shut to rice cereal, oatmeal and even butternut squash. I am calling it quits for a little while. A nice plus is yesterday JSL finally figured out how to nurse without the shield and is very happy. So my poor body will now have issues after 6 months that new mommies go through. All I can say is I will cope and thank goodness for teething tablets.
