Luca on the Slopes

5th Day Skiing! Here Luca flies down with Mommy, Grandpa and cousins Scott, Neal and Jamie. It was our first time watching him ski out of ski school.

Max 9 Months

Someday I'll get the 7th and 8th month pictures off our old camera. Skipping ahead to 9 months...

Weight: 25 lbs (between 90-95%)

Height: 30-1/2" (95%)

Teeth: 4 on the bottom, 2 top center, 2 incisors about to break through

Crawling, sitting, pulling up to knees, but not to stand

Laughing

Babbling - according to Luca, here are some of his "words": glee, glegh, ungoo, da-da-da, um-buhh, ha-ha-ha

Clapping, Raises hands about head with hands in fists

Passing things from hand to hand

Eating puffs, but not much chunky food

Max's 1st Hanukkah

Luca excited in front of the ridiculous amount of present accumulated from Mom, Dad, Grandparents and cousins... What to open first? He opened an awesome off-roader from Andrew and Justin and an Erector Set from Grandma/Grandpa. Pretty great 1st night for Luca!

Uncle Steven joins us for the 1st night

Luca lighting Uncle Steven's menorah since Mommy forgot our family menorah in the Connecticut house.

Luca lighting the wicks set in oil in his menorah that he made at school

Max opening his first present. Luca eventually jumped in to help. The gift was a toy car for infants to push when learning to crawl, little popping balls jump around inside. Whoops, didnt get a picture!