one year ago...

Natlie a un an aujourd'hui

My godness time flew. I just read Vickie's e-mail about Luna being 2 months about the time , it was so fast and so slow. I can relate to that too.
I tried very hard to capture every special moment and store them in a special place in my heart like I did with Rachel.
A year ago, Natalie was borned at 8.30am at Sibly. I enjoyed my first days at the hospital with her, being very proud of the nursing. I was happy to see how much Rachel warmed up to her sister. I was relieved when she started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks (2 weeks later than her sister did). I was not so thrilled when she got her first tooth at 6 month (6 months earlier than Rachel did). I was worried when you started showing some signs of allergies.
And now a year later, you are a healthy, smily and happy little girl. You play with your sister and we are so blessed to have you in our family.

un dimanche bien occupee/A busy Sunday

hier nous avons eu de la visite pour un brunch a la maison: Ania avec ses 2 enfants et Kathleen Cerami. Yossi a fait l'omelette du dimanche et on s'est mis a table avec de la bonne baguette et du fromage.
Les filles n'ont pas fait de sieste le matin et l'apres-midi je les ai enmene chez une amie ou toutes les mamans du groupe se sont retrouvees avec leurs enfants: Ellen, notre hote avec ses 2 filles, Elaine +2 garcons, Laurie +2 filles, Helen + 1 fille et un bebe, and Therese avec son garcon. Les enfants ont joue dans le parc et a la maison Elaine leur a fait faire un collage. Rachel et Natalie ont dormi dans la voiture a l'aller comme au retour (1/2 heure de route). Nous sommes rentres a la maison a 6h 30, a temps pour le souper et le bain.

We had a great day yesterday.
We had friends over for brunch and the girls had fun playing, running around, being carried and given a lot of extra attention. In the afternoon, Ellen hosted the group of moms and their kids (we were 6 moms, 3 dads, 6 toddlers, and 5 babies). THANK YOU Ellen for hosting such a big group. We had a lot of fun and a special thank you to Esther and Ruthie for sharing all their toys.

St. Nicholas a la delegation

On a fete St. Nicholas au travail et Natalie et Rachel ont recu leur cadeau de St. Nicholas. Rachel fut fascinee par le magicien. Ell a aussi beaucoup apprecie les crepes et le jus de pommes.
We celebrated St. Nicholas at work and the girls got presents from him.