New York, New York

We went up to New York for a short visit to NYU. The location was fantastic, the weather was cold, and the baby's fever was 39.2 degrees Celsius. Boo hoo. Itamar was pretty miserable for the first half of the trip, with a painful ear infection. But as soon he felt better and the sun came out, we had a great time. Itamar felt right at home on the basketball courts of Greenwhich Village. Imagine four huge guys playing basketball, when a little cheeky boy rushes into their game with his arms outstretched, yelling "bo, bo". It was rather hilarious. We also got to spend time with our new friend, baby Romy in New York at the Children's museum which was fun. The definite highlight of the trip was our visit to Princeton. Itamar was reunited with his baby-hood friends - Johanna, Alessandro and Laura. They played really well together and made us feel like we should be coming over there more often. Laura is so far the first kid that Itamar lets keep the ball. If anyone else dares to take a ball from him he goes nuts. But with Laura he is quite the gentleman. Hmmm.... Alessandro might have some competition here. Compare: THEN and NOW.

So the trip was short but sweet. Here are the photos.

And here are some photos from before we left - hanging out with Ziv at a gymboree called Yalduta in Zichron Ya'akov.

1 year 4 months

On Purim Itamar dressed up as a bee and was very busy, running around a lot. When the weather began getting nicer we went to Nachal Alexander for a picnic with the Green Movement. Itamar didn't seem to notice the beautiful place as much as the balls that were being kicked around. Boys will be boys... Other than that, Itamar has started building up a little vocabulary, mostly made up of single syllables. He has officially been crowned the "cheekiest but cutest" kid at Day Care. We are also very excited about our visit to NY to meet Itamar's 'childhood friends' in Princeton.

More photos are here.

Words:
1 year 4 months:
a-vu = it fell (or 'nafal' in Hebrew)
vu vu = woof woof
neh = knee