3 months!

Yesterday our sweet AlteLu turned 3 months old! How quickly the time is passing.  It feels like she was just born yesterday.  This week I left Jacob alone with both kids at bedtime for the first time, as I have been attending a work conference all week.  All went well, and Jacob reported that Hersh was an amazing helper while I was gone--what a  mensch!

Hersh and I have started to do some baking for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and the impending birth of our new nephew!  Exciting times abound over the next few weeks for sure.

A few Hershisms:

• Jacob was on hold with Bank of America, and Hersh said, "America, I love that store!"
• A little after bed one night, Hersh screamed, "ABBA! ABBA!" Jacob ran in, thinking something was wrong, and Hersh said, "I don't like my thumb."  It didn't hurt; he just . . . didn't like it.
• Hersh is really trying to understand darkness.  Many nights he asks why the black spreads across his walls at bedtime, and whether the dark outside is the same as the dark inside.  "Dark" is a surprisingly difficult concept.  We don't think he's afraid of the dark, he just doesn't quite get it yet.
• Hersh is always making up "games," "projects," and "experiments."  Sometimes these resemble what we adults would call games, projects, and experiments.  He's very emphatic about the rules--he uses the same voice we use when instructing him.  Yesterday's game involved balancing toy cars on top of board books.
• He and his school friends have started playing Hide-and-Seek and Tag.  In tag, they run for a while, then one of them stops and waits for the other to come give a hug.  In hide-and-seek, they both hide and then "find" each other.  Very cute.
• Hersh has decided that we're too silly.  He decreed that we could only say four silly things per day, and he made "silly cards" to give us when we're being silly (think yellow cards in soccer).  Needless to say, we're as silly as ever, but now Hersh will occasionally say, "Hey!  You need a silly card!"

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Surprised in the morning!

Chit-chat over dinner.

Visiting with Grandma.

First fire of the season.

Bakers!