Baby Noya is home

Introducing.... one month old Noya!! My baby sister! Isn't she lovely?

Although she is still very young, Noya is very expressive. She is mainly expressing her desire to eat, sleep, or a combination of both. Well, that is what babies do, you know. Plus there is pooping.

Noya's morning exercise includes some hand lifting, followed by leg kicking and then some...

well... sleeping...

Who are we to complain?
Noya's arrival home was truly wonderful. Ima and aba took me with them to the hospital. I immediately gave baby Noya a big hug and found a blanket to cover her. You can watch a video of the whole thing here.

Besides the excitement about baby Noya, there has been something else on my mind in the last month. I am talking of course about the sleeping beauty, princess Aurora, and in particular, prince Philip. Not only have I seen the full movie, start to finish, about 143 times, I also saw the scene of them dancing together about 466 times, and read the story about 872 times. I wake up in the middle of the night crying- "I want to give a kiss to prince Philip!", and so on and so forth. Saba and savta, ima and aba, have all been affected by my little obsession, and they walk around humming "once upon a dream" continuously.
The two pictures below were taken about one month apart, as I was watching my favorite scene. As you can see, the intensity of my concentration on every little detail in the prince's moves have not changed a bit....

I have long conversations with Philip. He is very supportive of my interest in animals, defeating the dragon, etc. Here are some of our favorite moments together:


Other than that, I have been growing and talking a lot more. Here are some of the cutest things I say:
"I don't think so" (whenever I don't like what you propose to me)
"and the duckies too!" (when aba asked- "did you feed the geese and the swans?")
"wait saba, it will come in a minute" (when saba tries to fast forward the promos on the sleeping beauty DVD)
"mommy is working on the computer" (when asked what does Olivia's mom do in the book- she is actually reading a magazine on the beach... but that's so not my mom...)
"Lia want to pump milk for baby Noya" (when I put two bottles on my chest and pretend to be mommy)
"go daddy, come on!" (when watching prince Philip ride his horse)

Eating apples straight from the tree is one of the unique pleasures of New-England's fall. I went with saba, savta, ima and aba, and we had lots of fun.

This is all for now. Please come see us again on Dec 1st. Who knows, we might have some snow pictures by then...