shabbat candles

It is 9.30 on Friday night. Rachel just brushed her teeth and I am finishing brushing mine.
She comes running "maman - j'ai souffle sur les bougies et maintenant ca brule"
translation - fire in the living room
The tableset had caught fire --not by itself, she put a napkin on the candle to try to extinguish it and as it did not work she tried with the tableset. At last that's what I thought happened
No harm was done.

We normally put the candle sticks on the mantle piece but that evening we did not.

almost 15 months

Natalie
In less than 1 week you will be 15 months, 15 months!
You are such a happy baby (about Rachel I used to say that she was an easy baby).
You love to laugh, to do "peek a boo/coucou beuh", you smile as soon as you see me in the morning, stop crying when I pick you up. You are so funny.
The latest things you enjoy are numerous, i.e. climbing on your sister's bed, throwing yourself on the pillows (even though you bang your head on the metal sides once in a while), reading lying down with the book upside down, falling asleep with your 2 babies (one from each grandma), splashing water @bath time, opening and closing the drinking cup, drinking from your sister's cup with the straw. You still like your 2 nursing sessions, enjoy playing with your hair, feeling the palm of my hand on your cheeck, rubbing your feet on my hand .. all that while Heidi is "protecting us". Our dog sits close to us during these sessions.
You really look up to your sister and eveything she does you want to do (which normally amuses her a lot).
I need to write all these little things, I don't want to forget these precious important moments in your life.
ta maman qui t'aime

who is who

Ma tante Didi (la soeur de maman) avait remarque que Natalie me ressemblait. En fait comme bebe on ne pouvait pas vraiment dire si c'etait a moi ou a Yossi qu'elle ressemblait le plus. Avec Rachel la ressemblance avec son papa etait tres forte (encore maintenant elle a bcp de son charactere aussi (hum hum!).

Natalie est tres coquine et adore rire et jouer a coucou/beuh. Elle aime tout particulierement que je cours derriere elle. Elle se met alors a courrir et va se cacher pres du lit et eclate de rire, c'est trop rigolo.

When Natalie was born we could not realy tell if she looked more like me or Yossi. With Rachel it was a copy of her dad. They both same the same dimple on their right cheeck but with Natalie it was not so obvious. My aunt in Belgium had told my mom that she looked just like me, ok. When I visited her in Belgium last month, she had made a copy of an old picture of me and it is funny because on that photo I make the same face as Natalie does on the posted picture. I try to scan taht picture but without success - sorry you will just have to take my word for it.

Natalie is a little girl who loves to laugh, who is always happy from dawn to sunset ... as long as I am around. She is very attached to me. She likes playing peakaboo and beeing chased by me or her sister. She runs (the best she can) to the bedroom and starts laughing very hard or when I call her she runs away and laughs all the way to the bedroom. Those moments are precious.