Daniel & Chavi's Stuff

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Elish is a big boy!

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Elish recites the Aleph Bet and gets a haircut

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Thanks to Dan Rosen who captured this on video.

Videos fom Upsherin

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The videos from the upsherin available on youtube. I still have one more to post

Intro video

Sappy slide show

Hair slide show

Elish- after the haircut

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Upsherin! (part 1)

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Elish plays with his friends and watches the video slide-show

Elish getting ready to get his hair cut

Savta and Saba take their turn cutting Elish's hair

Elish gives tzedaka during his upsherin - he likes this mitzvah!

Back in NY...we'll miss you QM2!

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Queen Mary 2

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Family Photos

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Elish loves to cruise!

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Formal nights on the QM2

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Elish played hard on the cruise!

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Daycare with the nannies was a lot of fun - the room had terrific toys, including a barn with animals that Elish loved.

Elish was so tired one evening that he fell asleep....with a bagel in his mouth!

Wow, Elish looks like such a big boy in his formal outfit! We posed for a lot of portraits.

Views of the Queen Mary - outside and In

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These Scenic views were taken on St. Lucia.

Here, you can see the arch over the water - this was used in scenes in the film "The Pirates of the Carribean: The Black Pearl"

Here's some views from the inside of the dining room on the Queen Mary - mealtimes with Elish were always interesting....

Nice Views from St. Kitts

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Zip Lining!

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Daniel and I went zip-lining in the rainforest in St. Lucia - what a great time we had! (and a nice view on the drive around the island too)

More Cruise Pictures

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Elish and I enjoyed some lovely times on the beach. This was on St. Kitts, where we were enjoyed calm waters and a beautiful day. Elish got his hair braided, and Daniel and I got massages.

We enjoyed dressing up in the evenings for dinner - this was on a casual night (you can tell because Daniel didn't have to wear a tie, only a jacket). This dressing-up thing is nice!

Elish loved his days in the daycare program with the Nannies. Every night when we picked him up, he was fast asleep. Playing is hard work!

Elish Pics from our Cruise

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This was a very funny image from our first port of call in Tortola. We got to the beach and it started to rain. Elish didn't want to get wet from the rain (even though he'd just swam in the water).
Elish slept very well on the cruise. He had a bunk-bed above our beds.

He also enjoyed the bed when awake (you can see the braid in his hair in front of his face - a souvenir from the beach).

This was a glass-bottom boat that we went on in Barbados. Daniel and I were able to swim with the turtles, tunas, and snorkel over a sunken ship while Elish stayed with the captain and munched on crackers. We all had a lot of fun.

Elish Class pictures

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We are not sure if we are going to keep the portrait. We will see how the reshoot goes.

Our favorite picture

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Our little boy is growing up.

Chanukah with the Browns 2007

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This Chanukah we were lucky to have Elish's fabulous and Great Aunt Devorah with her family. Elish loves his cousins. He got wonderful gifts from them.

Elish goes to work with Ema on Chanukah 2007

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He had fun in the conference room setting up conference calls on the speakerphone.

Chanukah @ Fleetwood 2007

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HAIR

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Hold the date April 6th 10AM it all comes off.

Thanksgiving continued

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Elish at a Barmitzvah

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Pictures from Buby's First Yeurtzeit

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Apple picking

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Apple Picking 11-03-07

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Cute boy!

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Elish had fun with his Zaidy and Safti at the park on Sunday.

Elish likes to pick his own clothes in the morning and get himself dressed...can you tell?

Elish has been sick the past couple of days. Today, he fell asleep on the couch clutching the thermometer like a security blanket.

Here's a closeup of the thermometer in his hands while he sleeps.

Elish's Family

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Elish and Eema with Saba Sy and Savta Sonja (before they made Aliyah)

Abba and Eema took Elish on a hike to Bear Mountain. Elish rode in the Mei Tei for a while, then he got to walk too.

Elish likes to say the bracha on Neirot Shabbat too (no, we didn't take this picture on shabbas!)

Elish helped Abba take apart his crib - he sleeps in a bed now!

Elish loves Leba

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Good dog!

Yup, that's Elish on the toilet! (Good reading material...)

Catching Up...

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Smile!

Elish as a girl...(in Eema's Hat Fall)

Elish used to fall asleep by the door in his room...

Elish's Second Birthday Party

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We made him a party at school - and they made him a nice hat too!

Big boy!

Banging on the table... can you guess who the leader of the pack is?

Elish's Eema brought in healthy birthday muffins (nope, no cupcakes with icing). They liked them even without frosting

More pictures you may have missed

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Cruise December 2006

Finally, a nice picture of us!

Elish is ALWAYS in the driver's seat...

When he was little...

Some more nice pictures

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Elish with his Zaidy

Chavi and Cousin Marcy

Messy Elish

Purim 5767 (2007)

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(Yeah, we're a little behind on the pictures...we finally found the cord that connects the camera to the computer, so we now can share all these photos we took these past many months.)

For purim, Elish was an Attached Abba (like his Abba and Eema). He was very happy to be a "babywearing Abba."
We made him a grogger by putting some cheerios in a bottle.

Elish the musician
He watches and listens carefully during megilla reading
Our family (Yes, We had silly costumes...scrubs - yes, not creative...)

More recent pictures of Elish

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We visited our friends at their summer cabin. Elish went on a pedal boat with the ladies...

and swam in the lake...

and ate a yummy Barbecue (thanks Barb!).

Elish poses for a nice picture.

We're back-

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Succah Decorating, Fleetwood style.

Elish and Abby Alla

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Elish cant say Challah (bread), he says alla. One time he heard us say hi friend Abby is is kalla (fiance). Since then he calls her Abby Alla.

Elish asleep and awake

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Elish Goes to a Wedding

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New Bath pictures

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Elish gets a new toy

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On Sunday Elish got a new toy from his great Aunt Devorah.

a spiffy chair that converts to a stool hand painted with his name on it

More adorable pictures from our cruise

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First off, we'll start with a nice family picture:

Elish loved being on the cruise ship - he had lots of fun.

Some nights on the ship, we would get dressed up. We took some nice photos of our own.

We also had the professional photographers take some pictures:

When we were out on our excursions, Daniel was a proud "babywearer" (here, he's wearing Elish in a Mei Tei, which is an asian-baby-carrier.) Elish loves being worn.

Elish loved the stateroom where we stayed on the ship. The room was small, but more "cozy" than cramped.

Elish loved the beach - we went to 5 different beaches, and at each one, he got to play in the sand, splash in the water, and just have fun!

(we were also vigilant with the sunblock, so his beautiful pale skin was protected!)

My, How he's grown!

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Sorry that it's been so long since we've updated this site.

We broke our digital camera, and we've been remiss about updating with other photos.

Here is a recent photo of Elish: (20 months):

G-d Bless this dog

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see the diference a few months makes.

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Some portraits never before seen

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Elish doesn't play fair !

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Another gratuitous display of Baby Elish abusing his "big sister." Hopefully he will get it back in spades when he has a younger sister that annoys him.

Happy Pesach!

A year in the life of Elish Eisenberg

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A video slide show of Elish's first year.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Elish !

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What a great year it has been

girls at work

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Thank you to Maya, Rina, and Jackie for helping get the house ready for Pesach

Pictures from this past Shabbat celebrating Stevie's Smicha

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Refuah Sheliema (Feel Better) to Chavi who just had knee surgery.

Tante Jenny Friday night with Elish

Beautiful table set for Shabbat.

Say Ahhhhh!!!!!

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Elish has a new trick. I say "Elish say Ah" and he opens his mouth as much as possible. I am afraid he will get lock jaw. As you can see he now has 4 teeth. 2 on top and 2 on the bottom.

cute pictures from about a month ago

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A family outing

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These are some pictures from Monday night. We took Elish to a YU screening of "The Apprentice" - featuring YU grad Dan Brody. We got the inside scoop about the show. At the event, The professional photographer loved Elish, and took a few pics for us.

We kept Elish busy munching on cantelope.

The Games Elish Plays

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-Elish immitates other people, especially with facial expressions and movements:

Sticks his tongue out (and wants you to stick yours back at him)
Shakes his head "no" when you say "no"
Blinks his eyes and holds them closed & wants you to copy him

-Holds onto the dog's collar when he wants to go for a ride

-Elish bites on some things he shouldn't - and he knows it!

Noses
Toes (if you're not wearing socks or shoes, you're in for a surprise! - he can spot exposed toes from across the room and he'll go in for the "kill" - watch out if you're napping!

-Elish is a head-banger (sign of a genius!)

-Steals the dog's bowls and drags them across the entire house (he seems to like the noise, since his second choice is pot covers.)

- When he sits in the highchair for a meal, he teases the dog - he'll hold out his hand with food, and when the dog comes to sniff and eat, Elish will pull back his hand. He'll do this a few times before he lets Leba get some food.

Elish thinks he's a dog

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Elish learns a lot from those around him. One of his biggest influences is his big "sister" Leba. He immitates her in the following ways:

He plays with the dog's toys
He crawls over to the pantry where the dogfood is kept, opens the door, then opens the cover to the dogfood (in a big rubbermaid container). With one hand, he holds open the cover. With the other, he reaches in for the kibble pieces.
Elish puts a toy in his mouth, then crawls around the floor with the toy in his mouth (like a dog carries a toy)
He chews on rawhide (or trys to) when he finds them on the floor
He chews on paper (just like Leba)
He likes to eat from the dog's dishes
He plays "fetch" - will 'go get it' and 'bring it back' when we throw a toy or ball (we are so sick...)
He loves to go into the crate
He 'mouths' like a teething puppy (oh yeah...he's a teething BABY!)
He loves playing in the toilet...just like the dog
We have a leaky shower head in the tub, so Leba jumps in, and elish stands outside the tub. They both try to catch the drops.

for those to lazy to click the link

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Finally, the House Post.

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This is the view from the back yard going into the back door. Maybe this will be for a future office? (Our trip just became a business expense) The first 2 floors are ours, the upper floors are the Gimpel's (next picture). They were also on a crazy week long trip to pick everything (EVERYTHING, all interior flooring, fixtures, etc) for the house.

The first room you see is the front half of Chavi's kitchen. The part you can't see (which is where the photographer is standing) is the eating area. We broke down the wall seperating the kitchen from the rest of the house to create an eating nook after the cabinetry. The shape of the kitchen will be a U (you're looking at the 'U') One side will be dairy (the left) with the other side meat (the right). There's also a large counter for parve. Tons of cabinets to accomodate all of of Chavi's pots, pans, Kitchen Aid mixer, coffee machine (that's Daniel's). Our carpenter, who is building all the cabinets is great!

The next two pictures are from the master bedroom and master bath. There is a room off the master bedroom that can be used as either a nursery or a walk in dressing room. The master bath is huge. We combined two bathrooms to make MY bathroom. No kids allowed (yeah rigggghhhht!). We found a nice jaccuzzi (180cm x 90cm) and we are enclosing an area 1.25 meter square (a little more than 4 feet by 4 feet) for a standing shower with a bench. I get a Mitriani Shower panel. (In Hebrew they call it a panelle). Chavi is getting a sunflower shower head suspended from the ceiling.

This picture is a large childrens bedroom. This is the biggest childs room. However the window doesn't have a good view. We chose a different bedroom for Elish, one with a good view, so he can relish (shout out to Dovid and Mindy) the view.

Speaking of the view this is the view from our neighboors house

This picture is of the living room, which is off the dining room and then on to the porch. We are thinking about enclosing the porch with a glass roof and windows to preserve the view and shield from the wind. We might get glass etched French doors in between the living room and the solarium (former porch)

The next two pictures are candids from our trip. We had to spend a lot of time negotiating with Yanki, the foreman for the project. Chavi discussed aesthetics and logistics, you can imagine what my role was. Elish was just too cute. Notice he is sitting on the table with the master plans for the house. Behind Yanki on the wall a chart of plots in the new neighboorhood in Neve Daniel. We were here 2 years ago picking the plot. Some things in life take time.

We spent 15 hours in the Negev Store. We needed a place to keep Elish so we put him in the jaccuzzi there.

He entertained all the customers. Negev wanted to use his picture in their marketing. I said it depended on the discount they would give us for the flooring and fixtures.

NEW video tour of our house is available

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To watch the video click here

much more pictures and video to come

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Our house is at the top of the hill near the water tower

We're back!

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That's Elish and me on the plane coming back from our crazy week in Israel. Thank G-d we got everything accomplished. Stay tuned for pictures and a video tour.

our architect is a genius

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Absentee Parenting

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Shabbat is over and we have lots of work to do. We plopped Elish in front of a DVD that teaches sign language. (click here to see more info about baby sign language) The woman who stars on the video learned to sign because her daughter was born deaf. See the website for the whole story.

So far Elish has not learned any signs. It has only been a week or two. He likes the multi-sensory approach of the educators, or so it says on their website. Its cute with babies and other animals. Leba has her place on the floor next to her younger brother.

Shavuah Tov! A good week to all

"Holiday" Party 2005

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Last night we had our anual office party. The first picture was an accident candid shot. In order to get the real picture I figured out how to do the timer on my digital camera while balancing it on a bottle of Grey Goose on top of a bottle of Tequilla.

Happy Holidays !

Changes Coming....

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The pictures we post here of Elish are about to change dramatically...He's cutting his first tooth!

We'll post a picture as soon as the tooth arrives!

too cute!

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After a bath we decided, he really needs a robe. We must have gotten 3 baby robes (why?) Now we know, babies are adorable in bath robes.

Yesterday, Chavi was out running some YU event and I was home babysitting. On Wednesday night, our synagogue has a learning program. My Chavrusa (study Partner ) came over to the house for our session. For an hour, we discussed the philosphical implications arising from the Biblical narrative describing the creation of Man, with about 10 minutes of nonsense schmoozing. Rob has 3 daughter vying to babysit Elish. We think by next year Rena will be ready.

New Elish Stuff

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Elish is a lot bigger since his last bath picture (see it here)

Cousin Dora visited and brought Elish some wonderful hardcover books that he can't rip)

Elish with Abba, Cousins Sora and Sol.

New Video is loaded on Google Video.

Click here and search "Elish Eisenberg" and enjoy.

Elish and Leba playing

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At Baba Lola's Unveiling

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Our Eliyahu Shalom has big shoes to fill.

The 7th Month Parental Gloat

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It's hard to believe it, but Elish is 7 months old today. Time really flies.

As proud parents, we have bragging rights.

Elish:

-Smiles
-Giggles
-Squeals
-Babbles
-Flips over
-Sits
-Crawls
-Pulls up to standing
-Cruises while holding on to the couch
-Chases after Leba
-Now eats: sweet potatos, avacados, bananas, rice (pureed), and as of last night, Spinach - he loved the spinach!

Yay! I have a kid who will actually eat his vegetables!

More in the series of Elish with his best friend

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Sorry I cant say the same for Leba. She takes it like a trooper. We still watch her to make sure she doesnt hit back.

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who is in charge here?

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Beauty and the Beast

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OY! We feel bad for Leba too !

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trying out some video

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Video of Elish's first time in a high chair !

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Elish now eats solid food

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Thank you Hofflich's for the high chair

Spiderman Kiss

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Everyone knows this Image from the movie. I recently recreated the scene with Elish.

He loves it. He giggles then chortles.

Of course we sing the Spiderman theme song. Click here to listen.

BACK!

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Its Midnight Sun night / Mon morning, just walked in the door. Lots to post, Yom Tov is coming, stay tuned....

Happy and healthy New Year Everyone!

MAINE!!!

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Maine is amazing! So much to say about it. I have a slow connection and cant post pics yet. We have been to Kennebunkpot and then up the coast to Acadia National Park. Leba has been swimming everyday. Elish is making friends all over New England with his cute smiles and coos. Stay tuned for Pictures.

Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine

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Chavi cooking at the Lake house

C
Chavi and Elish by the clock madde from Newspaper

Leba swimming in Rockport Harbor

Elish standing touching Dinosaur footprints

Today we woke up, exhuasted after getting back at 1:00 from the drive-in last night. We cleaned up the lake house and made our way out of CT to Massachusets. We went to the Garden in the woods. Nice place, helping us commune with Nature everyday of our vacation. From there we made our way to Gloucester, Massachusets. The town is famous for being the setting of the Movie, the Perfect Storm with George Clooney. It is a fishing villiage. WE drove around the harbor and to the surrounding harbors. At Rockport there was a house that has newspaper, aptly called the Paper House. it was very cool. I found a local girl who was walking her dog, I asked her where is a good place we can take Leba to swim. She directed us to a wharf. It was an alley along the harbor where local fisherman prepare their catch for sale. It smelled so bad. Anyway we went off to the side along the rocky New England Coast and Leba swam. By the end she was so tired she could barely walk. THAT IS A HAPPY DOG! She was even smiled. We drove up the coast, stopping in New Hampshire to fill up with gas and buy cheap booze. At 7:30 we arrived at our motel.

quick vavation update

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Sorry for the lack of pictures, dial-up stinks!

Sunday- woke up late went to Dinosaur State Park. A very cool exhibit in the Connecticut River Valley where 35 yeas ago while digging they uncovered footprints of dinosaur traffic. Part of the original bedrock is on display. There is an area where one can cast their own print with plaster of paris. After the museum we did around 3 mils of nature trails.

We next went to a Barnes and Noble for Starbucks and reading their travel books about Maine. Spent about an hour and bought the one we like the most.

We came home, packed up and went to a Drive-In movie about an hour away.

Today we are going through Massachusets to the coast on our way to Kennebunk.

If anyone has reccomendations for what to do in Maine, now is the time.

Elish on bed in CT Lakehouse

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outside the castle

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The Eisenberg's go on Vacation (updated)

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We are off to New England. The highlight of this trip will be going to Maine for 3 days. Our inspiration for this trip was our new friend Sara's description of Maine with her dog. (see the posts in the archive, great reading)

We started out are trip by going shopping at our favorite super market in Monsey. We were able to get take out and packaged foods for the whole trip. We then left for Connecticut where we are staying at our friends lake house. We arrived at 4:00 AM. We got hopelessly lost and were driving around the house but not finding it for an hour and a half. It could have been a huge fight between Chavi and me of who screwed up more by getting lost, but we were so tired, we didnt care. Today we went to Gillette Castle. This actor from the turn of the Century built a castle overlooking the Connecticut River. Nice place to look around with ample hiking trails. Shabbat Shalom to all.

There are a few pics but the internet here is super slow and I cant upload, look for it here soon

Special Bath Edition

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Bath time is always so much fun. Here are some new pictures from yesterdays bath.

Elish just picked up the rubber ducky and put it in his mouth and it worked just as good as a pacifier. I placed the other duck strategically.

Elish in his lion towel.

Peek-a-boo

For those who missed previous bath pictures click:
here
here
and his most famous one here

Elish Sits

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In addition to all the other things our baby can do, he sat up all by himself, smiled and then spat up on the chair. We didn't take that photo. He sure is cute !

No Allergies for Elish

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There's an expression that says 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' I hope this is true. With our parenting skills, Elish will be the strongest adult imaginable. Many people warned us about keeping a dog around, even one as well behaved (sic) as Leba, with a new baby.

We heard that babies exposed to allergins early in life have less as they grow up. (more info about that here)

Elish received his first exposure to dogs when he was 2 days old when Leba sniffed the little baby and promptly sat down wagging her tail and smiling. (yes dogs do that) This is the position she assumes (sit/stay) when I am holding one of her toys to throw in a game of fetch. She sat there waiting for the new toy we brought home for the hospital to be given to her. She learned very quickly that he is our chew toy, and she protects Elish everynight, sleeping right by his crib. One of our main inspirations for getting a dog was from Jordan, the famous Bogner wunder dog. After 2 years of Chavi adamantly refusing to get a dog, Jordan licked her and the rest is herstory. (she can tell it in another post, [punishment shout-out to Swidlers] )

For more info on crate training click here.

How to give Leba a treat

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On the right side of the page there is a cute java application.

To play, you click on the box of treats and you will get a bone. As you move it around the dog follows it. Click again and the dog eats the treat. Have fun. See if you can get leba to jump for her treat.

Elish's first words

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Well, not exactly words, it is still adorable. googoo gaga

Click on the picture to play (you will hear the sounds through your speakers)

yet another chiropractic cartoon

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Courtesy of the great Stephen Perle, D.C.

For those who couldn't get enough chiropractic cartoons.

9/2/05 Update- Just found a ton more cartoons. Let me know if you have others.

More Elish and Leba

2005-08-30T14:18:00.000-04:00

People always ask, how is Elish getting along with the dog? Elish now grabs Leba's ears. The dog now walks away when she has had enough. Other times she can't get enough of Elish.

No respect.

2005-08-29T13:31:00.000-04:00

These are the nice ones. There are a bunch of others that poke fun and are just mean that I am not posting.

Our Future Machatunim

2005-08-25T11:13:00.000-04:00

Our good friends, Mindy and Dovid just had a baby girl Avigayil Yael / Abbey who is just perfect for Elish. Her personality is a perfect blend of the sharp dry humor of her father coupled with the compassion and dedication of her mother. While Elish has shown much interest in Abbey, she has yet to express her feelings. Maybe she is concerned that she has more hair than Elish.

I'll try to post the picture of Chavi and mindy breaking the plate together.

Finally, back to pictures.

2005-08-24T12:05:00.000-04:00

Children are always so expressive in pictures. Psychotoddler wrote about the development of children's smiles.

These are Chavi's (and my) neices and nephew. Chanan and Shira are now in St. Louis.

Shlomo and Nadiv visiting from Israel.

Protect your children!

2005-08-23T11:46:00.000-04:00

I know I usually don't write about such serious issues, but I feel this is extremely important. Because of 'Megan's Law' and other such laws in states throughout the US, the public is allowed to access information as to the location of sex offenders. Check out this site:

http://www.mapsexoffenders.com/index.asp

We typed in our address and found out that there was a sex offender who lived 2 houses down from our old address!!! Scary!

It's important to check this site out before you rent or buy in a neighborhood, especially if you have children! (and even if you don't)

And on a related note, it's important to teach your children how to protect themselves. Moody moma says it best:

http://moodymama.com/?p=102

Sorry for such a serious post on a generally light-hearted blog. This is just too important.

CRASH!!!

2005-08-09T13:54:00.000-04:00

You're probably wondering why we haven't posted pics of Elish in a while. We are one of the unlucky victims of a computer crash. We hope to be up and running soon - we have a computer geek coming to the house to fix it and (hopefully) recover all the wonderful pics of Elish - yes, many pics didn't make it to the website...

In the meantime, enjoy the cartoon!

"So, how is the baby sleeping?"

2005-08-04T13:39:00.000-04:00

I don't know why this is, but the first question people ask upon meeting a new mother is "How is the baby sleeping?"

I don't mind the question, I just find it rather amusing that it's the same question, over and over.

Usually, to be polite, and not bog people down with details, I just say, "Baruch Hashem (thank God), he sleeps very well."

So do you want the details? Really? Really, really, really? (if not, you can skip the rest of this post.)

Elish is a very good sleeper at night. Many nights, he can sleep until 5 or 7 or more hours in a row. It's the timing and GETTING him to sleep that is a challange.

I usually start to feel exhausted by 9:00 or 9:30pm. After a full day at work, and comng home to an adorable baby who wants quality time with his mommy, rustling up some grub in the kitchen for the adults to eat (frozen meals, bowls of cereal, nothing complicated...)I am ready to curl up in bed for the night by then. But at this time, Elish is still raring to go, smiley and cute, and then a little fussy. I wind up holding him a lot (not a bad thing!), much more than Daniel, because when he gets fussy, only a mommy (with breasts) can comfort him! Even when I try to nurse him down to sleep, he just won't cooperate - he has other things in mind.

So I usually wind up crashing in the living room on our lounge chair, with Elish on my lap, and I am a zombie until around 11:30 or 12:30, or even later, when Elish finally conks off into deep sleep and I can finally put him down.

This is taking a toll on me. I know I am lucky that he sleeps so nicely once he falls asleep for good. I just wish we could get bedtime to be a little earlier.

We've tried.

Elish doesn't even nap a lot during the day. When I try to put him down earlier, Elish tends to wake up after 15 minutes, rejuvinated and ready for more action.

I have started to feel like my work performance is being affected by my exhaustion. I almost fell asleep in a meeting with a board member on Tuesday. It was rather embarrassing and unprofessional.

This shabbas I will do take-out, and try to get some serious shluf time. I need a nap!

Daniel & Chavi's Stuff

graphic

Elish is a big boy!

Elish recites the Aleph Bet and gets a haircut

Videos fom Upsherin

Elish- after the haircut

Upsherin! (part 1)

Back in NY...we'll miss you QM2!

Queen Mary 2

Family Photos

Elish loves to cruise!

Formal nights on the QM2

Elish played hard on the cruise!

Views of the Queen Mary - outside and In

Nice Views from St. Kitts

Zip Lining!

More Cruise Pictures

Elish Pics from our Cruise

Elish Class pictures

Our favorite picture

Chanukah with the Browns 2007

Elish goes to work with Ema on Chanukah 2007

Chanukah @ Fleetwood 2007

HAIR

Thanksgiving continued

Elish at a Barmitzvah

Pictures from Buby's First Yeurtzeit

Apple picking

Apple Picking 11-03-07

Cute boy!

Elish's Family

Elish loves Leba

Catching Up...

Elish's Second Birthday Party

More pictures you may have missed

Some more nice pictures

Purim 5767 (2007)

More recent pictures of Elish

We're back-

Elish and Abby Alla

Elish asleep and awake

Elish Goes to a Wedding

New Bath pictures

Elish gets a new toy

More adorable pictures from our cruise

My, How he's grown!

G-d Bless this dog

see the diference a few months makes.

Some portraits never before seen

Elish doesn't play fair !

A year in the life of Elish Eisenberg

Happy Birthday Elish !

girls at work

Pictures from this past Shabbat celebrating Stevie's Smicha

Say Ahhhhh!!!!!

cute pictures from about a month ago

A family outing

The Games Elish Plays

Elish thinks he's a dog

for those to lazy to click the link

Finally, the House Post.

*NEW* video tour of our house is available

much more pictures and video to come

We're back!

our architect is a genius

Absentee Parenting

"Holiday" Party 2005

Changes Coming....

too cute!

New Elish Stuff

Elish and Leba playing

At Baba Lola's Unveiling

The 7th Month Parental Gloat

More in the series of Elish with his best friend

who is in charge here?

Beauty and the Beast

trying out some video

Elish now eats solid food

Spiderman Kiss

BACK!

NEW video tour of our house is available