making faces

yesterday, when Lia and mom got up in the morning, dear mami decided to give lia a little treat for the hairs. so she bundled it up into neat little "kukiot". it started with 2, one on each side, and moved on to become 4 bundles, 3 in front and one in the back. then she modeled the whole thing with expressions on her face that she learns from papi. we practice a bit of strange facial expressions sometimes before she enters the bathtub in the evening in front of the big mirror there.

here's another one of the picture we took yesterday morning just before heading out to the kindergarten. She really is getting cuter and cuter as the days are passing by! in the last couple of weeks now she is also making a huge jump ahead with her social skills, she plays in such a lovely way with her friends in the kindergarten. whenever i go to pick her up we usually stay in the playground next to the kindergarten a bit and there she teams up with a friend or two and they head off laughing and shouting each others name: "Noa, Noa" and "Lia, Lia".
this is also a good moment to congratulate Enet Gil and Yoav, great set of friends they are. we went to visit them 2 days ago for jachnun breakfast and the very same evening they got a little baby girl named Tamar! (Enet was pregnant, so it wasn't really such a great surprise).

Jumping makes life more fun

Lia is jumping, that is, when she isn't singing, shich she does most of the time. she will always jump from the last step of the stairs. well, actually anything that has even a minimal height difference is jumpable! so here a small video which is already 2 months old, which shows her biggest jump i think she ever tried on her own.

have a great week and see you Sunday next week.

finally - an update!

it has been a long month and a half since i last opened the blog and wrote something about our life. So what is new you ask?

• My good friend tobias and his best friend danny became father and mother!
  


• I had a lot of work recently, mainly working on web-related projects


• Lia became a talking person, her communication skills have improved soooo much in the last couple of months! She enjoys going to her kindergarten every day, even though she was heard saying a couple of times in the morning when she was woken up: "I don't want to go to the kindergarten today". which sounds a little like: "let me sleep a little bit longer please". her daily and weekly routine are usually the same, kindergarten till 16:00 and then papi or momi time. mondays she goes to yoga taking momi along too. she picked it up from grandpa shaul and is very happy when monday comes along.
  


• and sarit? well.... she's pregnant, so lia is getting a brother/sister. the information is totaly new, and still kind of a secret, so the few of you who are reading this will be the first to know! If all goes well we are expecting him/her to join our family july 2008.

i really hope i will be able to start posting once a week here, even if its just a few words or a lia movie. so lets see if I can make it work - a new post every Sunday.