Welcome to the world

At 1:54 PM on May 5th, 2009, Shaina and I welcomed our second beautiful and healthy son to this world. Baby Boy Sugar #2 shares the distinction of a May birthday with numerous other family members in the Sugar/Katzoff clan, including the same birthday as his uncle Bryan. 

At 7 pounds, 11 ounces, he has a full head of blonde hair and blue eyes just like his older brother did. 

We went to the hospital on Monday evening, as Shaina complained of pain - despite us planning to be induced the very next morning at 8 AM. While the first dozen or so hours of labor were pretty boring, things sped up quickly, and we have G-d to thank for yet another handsome little addition to the Sugar clan. Lutheran staff, nurses, physicians were all phenomenal. Shaina got the epidural right away this time and it made all the difference in the world. Shaina and I laughed so much during this birth that the laughter itself nearly pushed the baby out! Mom and baby are doing just great, and will come home Thursday. 

Shalom Zachor will be at our home on Friday evening, 9:15 PM.

Bris will be May 12th, Tuesday - Lag B'Omer. at Skokie Valley Synagogue, 7:15 AM. 

Quote of the day goes to Big Brother Ethan, upon meeting his new sibling: "He looks like a tomato! He's all red!" Ethan is doing great, and is having a blast with all the presents and attention he's been getting!

"See you soon, baby!"

Killing some time at labor and delivery

About ready to go

Baruch HaBa

Waaaaaaaaa

Welcome to the fam

Kodak moment

swaddled goodness

Proud abba

bakin' in the rays

I lied. Here's another video. =)

Toddler Paleontology

Sorry we've been lax. Here's perhaps the last post before Ethan becomes a big brother!

Catching up

Elephant, want a number 8? Okay!

Ethan Sugar; musical enigma

Paaaaaanda!

Plus....take a look at Ethan's future baby brother:

Uh oh...looks like he has his abba's (old) nose....

Thanksgiving

Hontie (horsie) Rides

Apple Picking

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Abba's little helper

video of apple picking still to come...

"Eighty Pibe or Tow."

That's my new favorite number. I love to watch Uncle Mosihy videos, and one of the songs asks: "How many animals do you know? EIGHTY FIVE OR SO!" So, that's my new numerical answer to everything. "Hey, Ethan - how many apples did you eat?" "What's the stock market down today?" "How many times did you go to the bathroom today?" All eighty-five or so. 

Here are some pictures to catch up on the past few weeks. Pre-school, building the sukkah, etc - stay tuned for some great pics and videos of me going apple picking with aunt meira and uncle josh.

 Sportin' my awesome "Ethan" backpack for preschool

Mommy and Abba taped a quarter to my back for tzedaka

Chilling outside and helping abba build our sukkah with Bob the Builder tools. 

We call the blog "BabySugar" for a reason

As you know, this blog is predominantly written in Ethan's voice. Forgive me, for a moment, as we step out of that framework.





We are extremely excited to announce that G-d willing, we are expecting a new member of our family around the end of April 09! The blog will continue to chronicle Ethan's journey into big brotherhood (When initially told about Shaina's pregnancy, Ethan said very clearly - "NO BABY! NO BABY MOMMY TUMMY!") So we'll have to work on that.

In other news, Ethan is a pro at pre-school. We have received many a beautiful art project and he comes home singing different songs that makes us proud we spent a fortune on Jewish pre-school.

We're really excited about this next phase in our lives and we hope to share many more happy occasions with everybody in the future.

Also a mazal tov to our great friends Noah and Suzanne Mishkin on the birth of a gorgeous baby boy yesterday afternoon!

The nuptials of Aunt "Mei Mei" and Uncle "Jot"

It was the wedding of the century.

Beautiful building. Beautiful bride. Beautiful groom.

And then there was me, being a beautiful...terror. I was not such a happy camper the night of the wedding, but I did have a good time. And - I was asked to walk down the aisle - I didn't cooperate - I RAN down the aisle to go get some balloons that were at the end of it.

And I miss my aunt and uncle already. Here is some footage!

Also, stay tuned to the website in one week exactly for a video I think you're really going to like. I promise.

Wup pup, wup pup

A lot has happened in the past few weeks. I have a ton of footage and pictures from Aunt mei-mei's wedding, but in the mean time here is some older video.

scrubadubdub

Nana and granpda came over a few weeks ago to play outside. They put me right to work by having me wash grandpa's car. Diapers and lolipops aren't cheap, y'know - someone has to work for them.

None, two, yay..ten.

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Happy Birthday to Me

Holy smokes, I'm two! I can't believe it. I had a great time at my party...bubble machines, swimming pools, bouncy pits...and hippo cake! God, my mommy is awesome. here are some pictures of the party and some other random stuff. I was going to put a video on here but Abba said Google Video was being stupid.

"Wow! You mean I get this thing to myself?!"

Checkin' out the new sandbox

Bubbles!
"I dunno what this white stuff is but it all tastes awesome."

Hippo cake!!

"No...that can't be...is that a hippo? A cake? No freaking way is that a hippo AND a cake."

Mmmm....hippo....

My giraffe loves it too...

Zaide lets a "banoom" go up in the sky

My best friend Habie, munchin' away on a waffle

Daniel, sitting on the toddler chairs with the rest of the party guests.

What a fun day!!!

Zoo part deux

Here is the video from when I went to the zoo a few weeks ago.

I had an AWESOME birthday party today. Pics & vids to follow shortly.

Banoom

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