October 2012

Hila's Fourth Birthday!

We've come a long way from last year's birthday, during which, Hila covered her face with her hands whenever she heard the song "Happy Birthday". This year, there was a bit of trepidation and a complete refusal to have any school celebration, but she did happily agree to have a family party and threw in a "with presents, right?" comment as well.

The morning began with balloons on her bed to awaken her, and some fancy girly cake pops in carpool on the way to school.

After school, we had a little birthday cake in the succah followed by a visit to our nearby kosher pizza place to eat sushi (her favorite) and pizza in their succah.

Hlia insists on helping hang more pink streamers

Hila sets up the table in our succa for birthday cake.

Hila demonstrates her method of eating sushi. Remove all the
"innards", place them on a plate for Mommy, and then
enjoy the rice/seaweed portion. She is pointing to the empty
sushi rolls she's set up for herself.

We then returned home for a couple of presents. Hila was so excited to "read' the emails and retrieve the phone calls and voice messages left by all her family in Canada and Israel! She also was given a private concert by Avishai, who has recently learned how to play "Happy Birthday" on the keyboard. 

Thank you, Sabi and Savti, for "sponsoring" Hila's new favorite
kitchen accessories! She loves them!

Thank you, Zaidy and Butsy, for the great little house that
Hila is now using for her little rabbit toy family! Hila and the
rabbits are all very pleased with the new accomodations!

  Hila happens to love playing at her toy kitchen and asking whoever is nearby for "What would you like? I have french fries with dressing and sushi and chocolate milk. Is that good?" Her brothers were adorable at opening the packages and setting it up for her, and enthusiastically "ate" the plastic food that was served to them :)

Adin saved up tickets at school to trade in for a  "Hello Kitty" purse that he gave to her on her Hebrew Birthday. (Thank you, Pomper cousins, for the pink shabbat dress - recognize it?)

Thank you, Hashem, for such a wonderful, kind, funny and helpful girly girl! Ad Me'ah Viesrim Shana!