Today Lia is 3 years old and Noya is about 10.5 months.
We have been in Israel for almost 2 months and only now I managed to sit down and update the blog. Sorry for the long break, I will try to keep posting more regularly now.
The transition to Israel was not easy, but overall we are happy. The last few months in Boston were devoted mainly to tying up our work-related tasks, packing the house, selling and giving away stuff, saying goodbye to everyone and enjoying the short New-England spring. We even managed to squeeze in a visit to San Francisco and once again agreed that this is one of our favorite places in the whole world.
All this time, Noya has been growing nicely and Lia became more and more amazing in her own unique way. She quickly grasped the idea that we are leaving our house and moving to Israel, although she wasn’t always very happy about that. The day that we left our yellow house was difficult for everyone, and luckily we spent the last few days in Boston with very good friends who kept us well-fed and taken care of.
The day of the flight to Israel will be remembered as quite a horrid experience which we would have gladly skipped. I won’t bore you with the details, but the day started with an automated phone call announcing that our flight to NY (where we were to board the plane to Israel), got canceled and there were no other flights we could take. The rest of the day just kept getting worse. We arrived exhausted beyond belief and pretty much was out of it (us, the girls, and the cat) for about a week. Then we slowly started to pick up the pieces and get our lives organized.
Two months later, we live in a rented house in Rehovot, and Maya and I have both started our jobs. Our things arrived safely and we have unpacked most of them, although a lot of organizing work still needs to be done. The girls have been going to daycare and adjusting well to the Israeli culture (the climate... not so much- it's been hot as hell here).
Lia has been speaking a lot more Hebrew, and understanding a lot more too. She is as cute as ever, and continues to be a wonderful sister to Noya. Lia still talks fondly about her room in the yellow house, although she likes it here too. She has lots of cousins that she loves very much, and keeps talking about them whenever they are not around. She meets new people every week- our families, our friends, their children, the neighbors, etc. She is friendly and happy although at times it seems that there are a bit too many changes happening in her life.
Noya has gone through a tremendous growth during the past few months. She crawls freely around the house, chasing pumpkin with the clear intent of helping her shed her fur. Noya is always happy, laughing and smiling and just generally being super duper cute. A real competitor to Lia. She can stand holding on to things, and shows great interest in everyone and everything. She is eating solids and loving every minute of it (especially the mess-making part). Unfortunately, we discovered that both girls have hernia, which means they will need to undergo surgery soon to fix it. It’s not a complicated procedure, but still a bit scary.
There is a collection of new movies on OVI. Here is one example of the interaction between the two girls (this was taken about a month ago).
To see more movies, just browse: http://share.ovi.com/album/tmk.public
I also put some more pictures on picasa: http://tinyurl.com/Aug2010Slideshow
This is it for now. I will post again in a few weeks.
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