Big brother

A number of people have asked me how Elijah has been adjusting to our new addition.... the short answer is, beautifully. Will write more soon but thought I'd share this cute photo of him as a "ninja." He banged his head on a bookshelf and we used the belt of my bathrobe to attach an orphaned sock ice pack to his forehead!

Three weeks old

Nine days old

Baby Anne

My water broke at 4:00am on January 3rd, we arrived at Prentice Hospital a few hours later. Here we are in the triage area.

Baby Anne arrived later that afternoon. Here she is with the proud Savta

With Auntie Jen

With Grandma and Papa

Almost one day old, with Auntie Linda

With Uncle Adam

With Auntie Clarissa

Elijah has been in wonderful spirits. He is very helpful around the house, fetching things for Mommy and even lugging groceries up the stairs this afternoon. He is rather camera shy and I bribed him with a lollipop to get this shot.

The whole family came over to help celebrate Anne's first Shabbat. Darling Max was very excited to give kisses to his new cousin, what a sweetie!

First blessings

With Dodah

With Daddy this evening. Auntie Sandy made the gorgeous blanket.

Birthday celebrations

Such a fun week celebrating Elijah's 5th birthday!! The actual birth date was last Sunday and we had a low key day close to home. We went out with family for brunch and dinner, so Elijah had two free desserts with candles to blow out. Had planned to visit the science museum during the day, but the birthday boy wanted to chill at home and play with his new Hungry Hippo game isntead.


The official celebration took place at our house. We have limited space so just stuck with family and the boys from Elijah's class this year. His school music teacher performed for the kidddos and we had a great robot cake from Deerfield Bakery (thank you, Gilia!!)

IKEA Hackers

Elijah turned 5 a few moments ago. He is fast asleep and I am super excited to give him his new LEGO table in the morning. I took a little IKEA side table (a gift from my dear friend Linda, thank you!!) and expoxy-glued the top of it in LEGO baseplates. Super easy and inexpensive. Will be sure to post a photo but right now it is covered in heavy boxes so that the glue sets overnight.

I found the idea (and so many more fun ones) online at www.IKEAhackers.net. It is full of all sorts of neat projects. I am already thinking about something like this for Anne ($20 for the tables and chairs). The design is a piece of fabric with plexiglass on top.

Also like this one ($4 spice racks as book shelves) for the baby Anne's room!!

Wagner farm

Gilia, Elijah, Amiel and Miriam

Kisses

Elijah crawled into our bed earlier this week and kissed by belly. I assumed it was for the baby, but you never know. "Who was that kiss for?" I asked. "Your INTESTINES!" he replied.

Wishing

Elijah's birthday is fast approaching and it feels that the year is flying by us. A number of people have inquired about birthday gifts for the boy and his little sister. We thus decided to create an amazon.com wishlist!! Just go to amazon.com and click the wishlist button in the top right corner. Enter my email address (my last name@yahoo.com) and the list will pop right up.

BTW, the amazon.com wishlist is really easy to use. For more info about it, go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_wl_rl-create-new-list?ie=UTF8&nodeId=897204&language=en_US

Market

We finally did make it to the farmer's market a few weeks back. Max and Deborah joined too!