I don’t have an explanation for this one . . . apparently this is how girls dress.

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Showing Aviva a Hanukkah decoration:

Another pose and one together:

Here is a relatively long video (~ 13 minutes, 70MB) of Noah reading The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree with very limited help from Talia. There is an edited section in the early part because I sneezed (fortunately Noah wasn’t reading at the time so nothing significant was missed).

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Reading an old favorite–the baseball counting book:

Another old favorite–Goodnight Moon:

On the bench at the playground:

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Aviva Alix was born Friday, November 18 at 8:38 a.m. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19 inches long. Everyone is doing well. Noah is very excited and is doing a great job as a big brother.

Noah explaining something:

Noah showing Aviva the lion he picked out for her:

Here is a video of Noah reading “Blue Hat, Green Hat” by Sandra Boynton. He occasionally fakes reading by looking at the pictures, but he appears to actually be reading this time. (I’ll fix the dimensions eventually.)

Here are a couple pictures of Noah in his Lightning McQueen costume (after trick-or-treating). The first is, I guess, a traditional race car driver pose, then smiling.

Here is Noah helping me shovel. The shoveling ended with a friendly snowball fight. The friendly snowball fight ended when Noah aimed one at my throat (which I was able to catch). It might have been a random shot, but he did warn me when we started that he was going to get snow down my shirt (which I unintentionally did to him when we were cleaning the car).

Just posing, I think: