Delinquent blogger

Well, I was such a good blogger my whole maternity leave, and then the month before I went back to work just got so busy! Well, many changes this fall. My return to work, although I guess that was December, which is technically not the fall. And Mira came in early November! It's been so awesome having Mira as a part of our family. She takes such good care of the boys and has made the fact that both Noah and I work full-time and have careers and have kids totally manageable. We had a lot of fun in November -- we took Mira to Chinatown with the family and she bought Ezra a cool Angry Birds kite at a store there -- a few weeks later we finally flew the kites on a windy day, and sadly Ezra let go of Mira's kite and it flew up a tree! That was a crazy day -- she tried to scale a telephone pole to rescue the kite! Before I went back to work we hung out at the zoo, at Fairyland, at the children's museum in downtown Berkeley, Cal Academy of Science, had a fun day in Napa, and Mira got to know our family and the BayArea.
Now it's January, and I've been back at work for over a month. I miss getting to spend every day with my kids, but we all seem to be in the swing of things and adjusting well. We had a great time celebrating Hanukkah this year -- Ezra liked playing dreidel and lighting the candles every night. Arlo liked trying to eat the dreidels and we had to keep the small ones away from him! We celebrated Serbian Christmas on January 7, and Ezra found the coin in the Cesnica and I finally got to eat Gibanica. Arlo's doing so great -- I still can't believe how much he laughs and smiles -- he's just such a happy little guy. He's going to be crawling any day now -- he's ready to go! He's been sitting up for a month now too, which is great, because he and Ezra can now sit together and play with their cars together! They are really starting to interact more and more and it's awesome.