Nothing like Purim to separate the early-risers from the late-bed goers from the up all night due to teething painers.
Wait, I think we were actually all three…
In many ways, Purim is more fun when you have an extra body to shove into a costume. But you kinda miss out on the party-parties. Still a fun [...]
At this point, the growing happens behind my back or out of the corner of my eye… I have to catch it when I can. Kind of like I’ve had to do since Koala discovered the stairs two weeks ago.
From the kitchen, I can suddenly turn around and see that Koala is reaching under the [...]
How appropriate: Koala turned eight months old after celebrating the eight nights of Chanukah. Or, not so much celebrating as staring into bright, vision-stimulating fire, sucking on giant plastic dreidals, reaching for our sufganiyot and being handed wrapped presents from doting elders and staring at them.
Seriously, I thought he’d be more into the whole wrapping [...]
And, poof! Just like that, Koala and I are in the States.
The only thing accurate in that statement is that Koala and I are in the States. Koala and I, minus husband, minus mother’s helper, minus sanity. I took my 7-month old on a business trip to New York. Namely - I managed a trans-Atlantic [...]
They grow up so fast. They grow up so fast. They grow up so fast.
Dammit, I’m surrounded by cliches. It’s getting kinda repetitive.
But I’ll take a cribful of cliches for all the milestones Koala has experienced in the last month.
He worked really hard to sit - every day, one leg under the [...]
Put out my hand,
for a baby boy in need.
Just trying to sit up.
He takes my outreached hand,
and with bite-sized gusto,
puts it in his mouth.
When he’s done with it,
I wipe it on my pants.
I’m not going to lie; it’s not always easy to write the praises of parenthood and the cutest Koala in the entire world when said Koala is trying to push one of the hardest substances of the body through his gums.
Last week and the present one are probably the most challenging I’ve faced so far.
We [...]
So this is it, huh?
You get through a really hard week. You get invited out for both meals for Shabbat. You breath and say, hey, we can go out the whole day Friday! You make plans together. You prepare everything the night before.
You get woken up too early on Friday. Your kid is sneezing and coughing [...]
It is the eve of our first party-of-three family trip… involving a plane ride.
That’s right; tomorrow we will be inaugurated as that young couple with a baby that you love to hate on planes. Yet another life milestone.
Here’s hoping it will go well. The definition of going well is one of the following:
Koala sleeps to [...]
Time is going by cliche fast. You hear it and you hear it and then it happens to you. The Koala is nearly four months old. I’m nearly four months not-pregnant. The Koala smiles, laughs, plays. My maternity leave is over and I’m juggling work and baby.
I’ve slowed down with updates here, of course. Typing [...]