Happy New Year

2006 has come and gone and today is the first day of 2007. Looking back at the passing year, it has definately been a fun, yet bumpy, ride. Ms. Fasu was born shortly after the beginning of 06 and for the first two months of that year, life has been very very challenging. Having a baby with cholic, thrush, problems breastfeeding and other ailements was no fun. Especially when you have to do most of the stuff alone.

But then the magical three months mark came and things became so much more fun and they have been getting better ever since. From a little, red, screaming child my baby Fasu has become a beautiful, all smiles nearly a toddler. I cannot imagine life without her, and everytime I think of her, she brings a big smile to my face and a warm, loving feeling in my heart.

These days Doda is back living with us. She is going back to Israel in two weeks but in the meantime, the Fasu is enjoying the company of another family member who adores her every whim. I think the Fasu even calls her Doda but I am not sure. They like to play together, read stories and harrass the puppies.

The Fasu is definately getting much more confident about pulling up. She is pulling up onto almost anything; from the TV, to her toy-piano to the coffee table to the gates that block our living room. I think the other day I saw her standing for two seconds by herself when she got ready to go back down to the floor after pulling up on a chair. That of course made my heart skip a beat. I wish she would walk soon. That would definately get me into much needed shape.

My little girl continues to enjoy Sesame Street and Elmo is still the only word that I know she really means when she says it. She even sings the Elmo song but also some of Grover's tunes. Dad and she sit at the computer and watch video's of the show and the Fasu just loves it.
One of the tricks we learned when we don't want her to fall asleep in the car is put on Elmo's tapping song on the I-Pod. The second she hears the opening tunes, she starts dancing and waiving her little hands in her car seat and then sleep is averted. I really got to take a video of that.