We are not such a religious family, but you do what you do for family and tradition and still have a good time. Every year we attend Seder at family friend Sybil Pulver's fantastic home on Key Biscayne. Zach of course was a complete handful, but eveyone seemed to enjoy him.   Karin dressed him up in khaki's and a sport coat and a striped shirt that matched with mine. 

Photos are here:

From Seder 2008

Here are the videos:

Watch his hands after I say no hands.

Heidi came to visit and she created a great video of Zach.

This seems so far off, but from what everyone tells us it will be here faster than we could imagine.

Mother Talkers :: First Day of School

First Day of School
by Elisa
Tue Sep 05, 2006 at 01:00:11 PM PDT

I was the nervous one. Ari was excited to start school, even jumping out of bed to get dressed.

But these were my fears in no particular order: that I would oversleep -- I rely on my internal clock to get up -- that he would poop in his pants at school (he is not potty-trained), that he would cry, that a million things would go wrong. Nothing came to pass, except that I forgot to pack a drink with his lunch. I stuck around for story time, distracted him with the trains and then ran off to Whole Foods.

My small talk with the cashier while I loaded the conveyor with like 20 kid-sized boxes of juice: "I forgot to pack my kid's drink."

Cashier: "I see that."

Me: "Are the other moms this clueless?"

Cashier: "I wouldn't be so hard on yourself. At least your kid's juice is organic!"

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2 Videos of Zach on his play mat. He just seems to love it! Watch his legs kick out and dance.

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Toddlers don't always outgrow chubbiness - Yahoo! News

This study has to do with 2 year old babies, but Zach is so pudgy we get worried. In addition, we had the TV on yesterday and happened to run into a Maury Povich thing on overweiught children.  He had 5 year olds on that weighed over 105 lbs and their parents liked it!  Unbelievable. I think we have plenty of time, but still scary.

CHICAGO - Pudgy toddlers face a good chance of becoming overweight 12-year-olds, according to government research that shoots down the notion that kids just naturally outgrow early chubbiness.

Children who were overweight at age 2 or later during their preschool years faced a five times higher risk of being overweight at age 12 than youngsters who were not overweight early on, the study found. Sixty percent of the children who were overweight at any time during the preschool period were overweight at age 12.

Children were considered overweight if their body-mass index was in the 85th percentile or higher for their gender and age. That means they were heavier than at least 85 percent of children their same age and sex.

"These results suggest that any time a child reaches the 85th percentile for BMI may be an appropriate time for intervention," the researchers wrote.

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