Brrrrrr.......

The most amazing thing happened this week--Jacob ironed!  Since we arrived in September there has been a pile of shirts and pants at the bottom of Jacob's closet.  Yesterday, Jacob asked me, in a rhetorical fashion, "did I bring any corduroy pants?" and thus, the excavation and ironing began.  This is good, since Jacob wore the same orange sweater (featured in a picture below) every single day last week.

Our week began by visiting the Belvedere Castle, which is where Prince Eugene, a French prince who was invited to live in Austria by the Hapsburgs lived.  It is a beautiful castle with lovely grounds.  The afternoon we were there was very chilly, which made for a beautiful sky.

On Thanksgiving day, we went out to a delicious lunch at a great vegetarian restaurant, Wrenkh.  Hersh sat at the table and enjoyed lunching.  He of course captured the attention of the ladies at the table next to us. We proceeded to chat with them and learned that they were Italian Jews, some of whom live here in Austria and others who live in Israel.  We chatted about Hersh's name, where our families are from, and the fact that quinoa is kosher for Passover.  The elderly lady at the table, who did not speak English, only Hebrew, German, and Italian, made her daughter ask me if my hair was natural or a wig because it looked so perfect!  I often have people ask me if my hair is natural, but the way she asked was a quintesential combination of Jewish grandmother and pushy Israeli--both amazing and endearing. We then visited the Albertina museum and saw the Picasso exhibit, which all three of us really enjoyed.  There was also a Michelangelo exhibit, which was all sketches, and was not as interesting to Hersh.

Hersh officially has two teeth and is moving more and more each day.  He is actually quite frustrated with himself, as it seems that he would really like to crawl.  We are pretty sure that it'll happen any day now.  We have also had snow over the past few days.  Nothing too crazy--just a couple of inches each night, and it melts pretty quickly.

Happy Hanukah!

ready for an outing--Hersh and the orange sweater.

 Belvedere Castle:

Checking out the Picasso exhibit.

winter coat!

on the U-bahn

bear cub hat!