Weekend Update 12/26/09

Well, it has been yet another eventful week in the Beiser household.
sorry for the failure to update this blog every week, but its hectic and crazy here.

The kids really enjoyed Chanukah. Shaya lit his own Menorah and said the brachos beautifully, especially by the end. Two days of vacation from school were big fun for Mommy with lots of family bonding. We did manage to take one day that week to take the boys for professional pictures which came out well, BH, although I was exhausted afterward!

(see here for photos, : http://www.adinamarkowitzphotography.com/ username: beiser2; password: smile)

When they returned to school they had much Chanukah fun, returning daily with projects and dreidels and lots of nosh. We also spent a nice evening with Uncle Reuben, Aunt Tehila and the kids where we joined them for their candle lighting and had dinner and playing afterward.

The highlight of the past week was of course, the boys return to regular schedule of school. YB was home pretty much the whole week, as was sick with... pneumonia! that's right, doesn't that sound dramatic?

It wasn't so dramatic actually and he is back in gan today (on 2 antibiotics). But it was a tough week, lots of crying at night, etc.

We (read: I) also took MM to a fancy expensive ENT at Hadassah (read: schlep) who told us to put him on a low-dose antibiotic for a few months, or take out his tonsils. This is pretty much exactly what the not-fancy, free ENT told us as well. But it sounded more professional from the fancy one! We are also looking into a chinese medicine option which is supposed to have about a 50% success rate.

I also finally heard back from my dissertation advisor who said she will try to review my paper over the break. Nice of her.

Cute kid stuff:

As the siren went off before Shabbos:

Bin: Listen Shaya, the siren is going off
Shaya: Abba, its not going off, its going on!

As the boys spot the newborn toys (rattles etc) put away in the closet:

MM: What are those toys for?
Me: those are for little tiny babies, but we don't need them now because we dont' have a little tiny baby
Shaya: Well, that's because you aren't davening hard enough!

At lunch:

Shaya: Mommy, I have a very good idea.
Me: Really, what's that?
Shaya: every day we should bake a cake and then you won't have to bake one on erev shabbos
(the joy of a child who already knows the value of the freezer!)

As I was feeding YB in the kitchen -
Shaya from the living room: "Mommmmyy...."
YB: "Commming...."

YB's expanding vocabulary:
"coat", "bye bye", "stroller" "paci" "ketchup" "abba" "hello" "thank you"

SO CUTE!!

Have a great week!!