Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! This is a very special Thanksgiving for us! It is the first time that we are celebrating the Holidays as a family of three. I am very thankful for our beautiful son, who brings us joy and laughter everyday. I am thankful for my wonderful husband, who is the most caring person I know. I am thankful to him for providing so well for Daniel and me, and for being such an amazing father to our son. I am thankful that my whole family lives in the US now, I love you all! I am also thankful for all my friends who helped me survive the first few months after my son's birth with almost all my sanity intact :)



This year we did not go to visit our family so I wanted to cook a true American Thanksgiving meal. I made Brined and Roasted Turkey, ham, scalloped potatoes, mac-and-cheese, salad, rolls, and gravy. To finish off we had Russian style apple cake (I just had to throw something Russian in there) and ice cream with strawberries. This is my first attempt ever at cooking turkey and it is good!!! I know it is tasty as my biggest critic really enjoyed the turkey. I was going to put a picture of Daniel eating my turkey here, but all the pictures we took today turned out crappy :(

I have got to sign off now, as it is time to go wash off that turkey of Daniel's face and hair. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!!

Dinner with Ilana

Couple of days ago Daniel and I went to an early dinner with my friend Ilana. Ilana was the Made of Honor at my wedding and is my dear friend from college. We had a great time catching up without her fiance and my husband :). Daniel behaved like a little gentleman, I think he really likes Ilana:

He also really enjoyed eating his favorite baby cookies and trying Mexican food:

Actually, he seems to like any and all food right now and I hope this lasts. More about that at a later time.

Daniel's Growth

I would like to have a more permanent record of Daniel's weight/length. Right now I have most of the info written on a piece of paper and I KNOW I will lose it eventually. So here it goes

Birth - 3/12/08 - 8lbs & 20.5"
3 days - 3/15/08 - 7lbs 10oz
10 days - 3/22/08 - 8lbs
1 month - 4/12/08 - 11lbs & 21.5"
2 months - 5/13/08 - 14lbs & 23.5"
3 months - 6/17/08 - 16lbs 4oz & 25"
4 months - 7/15/08 - 17lbs 12oz & 26.5"
5 months - 8/12/08 - 20lbs 13oz & 27"
6 months - 9/14/08 - 21lbs 4oz & 27"
7 months - 10/14/08 - 23lbs
7.5 months - 10/27/08 - 23lbs 13oz
8 months - 11/14/08 - 25lbs & 29"

So as you can see we have a little tiny baby :) He is in 97 percentile for weight and 87 percentile for height. I really hope that he starts crawling or walking soon since I am not sure how much more my back can handle.

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Hi again

Well, it has been almost six months since I started this blog and I have not posted since. I really do want to blog, but most of the time when I see the window in front of me I get a writer's bloc and it is very hard to push through. So I am setting up a reminder on my phone to blog at least twice a week :)

A lot has happened during the last few months and it is hard to remember it all. I hope that I can talk some about all the things we did in the next posts. For now, here is a picture of our growing boy as a turkey on Halloween: