Happy 4th Birthday, Hodayah!

 Happy Birthday James Oglethorpe, Frank Kellogg, Giacomo Puccini, Connie Mack, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Billingsly, Gene Rayburn, Hector Elizondo, Diane Sawyer, Lynne Thigpen,  Maurice and Robin Gibb, Ralph Fiennes, Jordin Sparks, Ariel Penkower , Miriam Callen-Last , Ze'ev Beleck ,

and of course my smart, beautiful, kind, caring, loving, curious, determined, brave Hodayah Yael.  I love you the mostest toastest!

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Snow can't stop Chanukah!

 Neither rain nor snow nor freezing winds blowing out the matches will stop the Berows from lighting our chanukiyot outside! (Minus the kids who lit inside...and by kids, I mean Hodayah. Hillelly is still too young, as we discovered on the previous nights.)

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Genes

 Tonight, I was holding this cutie near a mirror and I said "Hillelly, who do you see?". He answered "Abba!"

. There's no hope for my genes.

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Bye Bye and Good Riddance!

Today, my almost-4-year-old daughter walked out of the house to go to groups at shul.  My 19-month-old son, who is just learning words, slammed the door shut on her and said in the cutest way "Bye bye!"

I think he's trying to tell us something...

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