Yungers in Action: Yisrael eating Chummus

Today Yisrael got his hands on a container of Chummus...and decided to help himself!

Seeing double?

Yisrael has been giving me a hard time going to sleep lately (I guess he's normal!) so we made a life-size paper doll that is also Yisrael. We made a full set of clothes and PJ's (out of paper) for the doll. The idea is that every night, we will first get the paper Yisrael into pajamas, and we will sing to him and put him to sleep, and then afterwards, the real Yisrael will go to sleep. I don't know if it will actually work, but Yisrael sure got a kick out of seeing another "Yisrael" in the house!

Isn't she precious?

Tonight we went to a chasuna for one of Bentzi's cousins. B"H Bruria looked so cute, she was getting all the attention (well, not all of it...she made sure to leave some for the Chosson and Kallah!)

Our budding Talmid Chochom

This picture was NOT posed...Yisrael found Bentzi's gemara on the table, and he shlepped it over to the couch and sat down to "learn".

May we be zoche to see him develop into a ben Torah, and may he always find joy in his learning!

Yungers in Action: Yisrael feeding himself soup

Yisrael decided he's old enough to feed himself.....

Our new double Stroller

After much consideration, and hours of researching strollers online, I finally decided on a double stroller. I opted to go with a jogging stroller- and I hope it serves us well!

Introducing....Bruria Yunger!!!

Today we named our little girl Bruria...after the Bruria in the Gemara, the wife of R' Meir Ba'al Haness. May she be zoche to grow up to be a great woman, like her namesake.

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Now you are probably wondering...how in the WORLD did we ever dream up such a name? I'll admit that it IS quite original...here's how Bruria got her name:

When we were expecting Yisrael, we were discussing names- we knew that if it was a boy, we'd name him Yisrael, after Bentzi's grandfather, but we needed a girl name. We thought it would be so nice to name a daughter after an אישה חשובה but the אמהות were taken by Bentzi's mothers and sisters....anyway, Bentzi mentioned the name Bruria but I vetoed it right away. In the end we never agreed on anything, which was fine because Yisrael was a boy!

Then, this time around, we didn't have a boy name or a girl name. We talked about names a few times, but finally I said, "Lets at least wait until the baby is born so that we know what it is! That way we at least narrow down the possiblities!" So we did.

Once Bruria was born, I was sitting in the hospital, and I started thinking of what we should name her. Every time I tried to think of a name, "Bruria" kept popping into my head. I kept trying to push it out of my mind, but no other name that I thought of felt "right". Later on, when Bentzi came to visit, I asked him if he had thougth at all about names yet. "Actually, there's a certain name I keep thinking of, but you're not going to like it!" I've heard that when parents name a child, they are given רוח הקודש....

Mazal Tov! Its a girl!

At 6:50 this morning, our little girl made her entrance into the world. Born 11 days late, she weighed in at 3.985 kilo (almost 9 pounds!) She's got dimples in both cheeks- the midwife noticed that right away! May we all have much nachas from her!

Here she is, sucking her thumb, only a few hours after she was born!

Happy Purim!

We had a really nice Purim- Yisrael loved it because everywhere he went, he kept getting nosh (which kid doesn't like Purim?!) We ran around to give out Mishloach Manos, and then had our Seuda in Sanhedria Murchevet, by a friend of Bentzi's from Yeshiva. It was very nice and lebedik- real Purim spirit!

(This picture is actually from a few days ago, Bentzi wanted me to make him a silly hat to wear on Purim so I sewed strips of red felt onto a Yarmulka, as a sort of wig. But I must admit that it looked much cuter on Yisrael than it did on Bentzi!)