Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone!! I have to thank the Bucar's for the picture of the Space Needle. Luke and I stayed home this year and played a very bad game of Scrabble, drank some Champagne cocktails (sugar cube, bitters, & champagne), then went to bed at 10:30. Ah, the life of parents. But New Year's was a nice end to the week and half that Luke has had off from work. It's given us time to do some house things, hang out together, play with Asher and generally just be together.

This January, I start nannying for a one of Luke's co-workers. Asher & I will be spending 3 days a week in West Seattle hanging out with Ainsley who is 8 months old. That's right, we're starting him off well by encouraging fraternizing with younger women. This only lasts through the end of the month as Ainsley will then start going to daycare. It'll bring in some extra money for us and we'll really prove if we can handle two kids.

This is a picture of Asher and Luke on the 25th of December. This day is known to the most of you as Christmas but to us it is the day of a movie and Chinese food. We tried for the movie, but it didn't work out in our favor. We did succeed with Chinese food though as we headed down to the International District in downtown Seattle. Though I'm not sure why they call it that as it's less international and more China. Whatever.
This is the one day we got snow all week. It only stuck around for a little while, but it was pretty while it lasted.
Asher's hair is getting really long. I've been trying to get a picture of this for awhile and it seems this is the best we could get. It now goes over his eyebrows. The back has these cute little curls going on. It's a Jewish tradition to leave a child's hair uncut for their first three years. The reasoning behind this is multipurpose (as are most Jewish traditions). The first is that we should raise children like we do fruit trees. The tree is not mature enough to grow fruit until it is three and thus is not trimmed until that time. The second is that when the age of 3 is reached, boys start wearing a kippot (or yarmulke) and children begin studying Torah.

We'd really like to go this long, no pun intended, but his hair is just getting so shaggy! It does make really good mohawks in the bath tub though.


Our final picture is that of Asher watching his dad do some work outside. I think it's too cute to not include.