Family Hannukah

HG was very excited about Hannukah. She and Ima spent the weeks before learning songs and reading books about the hag and of course playing dreidl - HG loves dreidls!

Ima and Abba light with olive oil, but the old family menorah Uncle Ivor lights only has room for candles, as did the Hannukiot the family guests brought, so there were plenty of coloured candles to play with. HG assigned herself the job of sorting each box by colour, roping in whoever was to hand to help hold all the candles. She really has been into colours lately, and she took the task of colour sorting very seriously.

The first Shabbat Hannukah was a family event, with relatives from Jerusalem, the US and England staying over. HG loved having all the family around her, so many people to play with!

Plus of course, a nice selection of presents, two wonderful toy trains, a book about mammals, chunky baby lego, some Hannukah books and some really cute squirty bath toys.

Unfortunately HG came down with a really nasty tummy bug on the Tuesday and spent the rest of Hannukah too ill to do much more than lie on her play mat, sleep, nurse and look at her toys, rather than play with them.

She is feeling much better now and this Shabbat ate some solid food for the first time since Tuesday. She smelled the potato kugel and wolfed down a nice helping. It also stayed down, and this evening she climbed up into her booster seat and asked for chicken soup, which she fed herself, and followed by some jelly. It is so good to see her feeling like herself again!