Chanukah gift - 2016 picture

Best Chanukah present ever...ya know...minus all the pain and discomfort...

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Happy 2nd birthday, Hodayah! - 2018 pictures

My kid is officially 2 years old.  Not entirely sure how this happened.

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Happy 2nd Birthday, Hodayah! - 2018 - pictures and video

 Happy second birthday to our precious Hodayah Yael, the best Chanukah present we ever got!  We love you soooooooo much!  The mostest toastest!

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Happy 1st Birthday Hodayah! - 2017 - pictures

 Last year, 2 days before Chanukah, I got the best Chanukah present ever.  Happy first birthday to my precious Hodayah Yael.  And Happy "we survived a year of being parents and didn't kill anyone" Day to me and Mo Berow.

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Happy Birthday Hodayah!

 Today is our precious Hodayah's 5th birthday.  I very vividly remember a friend coming to visit when Hodayah was only a few weeks old.  My friend was telling me about how challenging she was when she was a baby and how difficult it was for her mom.  I clearly remember thinking to myself "but you're 27.  Your mom isn't dealing with that anymore.  I'm stuck here...now...it's really hard."  And then I looked down at little infant Hodayah in my arms and said "Can you just be 5 already?  Please?!"  And I think I actually tried to close my eyes and will it to be 5 years later when I open my eyes again, just like how they say that time passes like the blink of an eye.  I thought if I blink my eyes and open them again, we can skip ahead to 5 years later.

Well, that trick did not work.  I did not magically blink us 5 years ahead.  (Or maybe I did...oooooh....)  But here we are.  Hodayah is 5 already.  I can't believe it.  I know how cliche that sounds, but it's true.  I don't know how we got here really in the blink of an eye.  I thank Hashem every day for the miracle that Hodayah is.  (And yay for me surviving being a mom this long.  That too is quite a miracle!)

Happy Birthday Hodayah!

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Happy Birthday Hodayah - 2020 - with picture

Tonight (Tuesday), and tomorrow (Wednesday), are this big girl's birthday on the Jewish calendar.  She was really the best Chanukah gift I've ever gotten in my whole life.

יום הולדת שמח, הודיה יעל!

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