With Uncle Idan and Auntie Karen

Amir's cousin and his wife & Ayla enjoying the atmosphere at a Mississaugan Tex-Mex restaurant.

With Milad, Karolina, Maya & Baby

With New Friends, Sophia & Juli

Grandma Hanna & Ayla

Singing songs with Babcia
Playing with a ball, actually, trying to eat the ball
Driving the PT Cruiser convertible
First driving lesson
A walk in the park
Beautiful scenery and interesting cell phones

Ayla and Grandma Hanna

Ayla and Uncle Mike

Grandma's Visit

Ayla's grandmother, Hanna, came to Canada to visit. She and Ayla are getting along together extremely well as can be seen in the following video

Videos and more

Ania took some really nice short videos of Ayla, which can be viewed via the links below.
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Ayla Eating - Ayla in her high chair trying to figure out an apple
Ayla Crawling - Ayla crawling on the floor towards Ania
Ayla Laughing and crawling - Ayla sitting on the floor laughing, then tries to crawl towards Ania as she moves away.

Eating Chicken Sushi

Sittin' in My High Chair

Some cute ones

With Babka Danka

Here's Ayla with her Grand-Aunt, who's lovely hospitality we are enjoying in Mississauga.

With Auntie Caitlin

In the Tub - Standing

Starting Solids

Ayla happily busy on an apple, her favourite.
Ayla eating her organic barley baby cereal

A Trip to the Zoo

On Sunday Ayla and I were invited by Ashley and Derek to the Metro Toronto Zoo. The zoo is spread out over many acres of parks and forests. The paths wind through paddocks, animal enclosures and picnic areas and various exotic beasts await viewing through the foilage. There are many tour options available, we decided to take the Around the World Tour and get to see all the animals of the globe.

Zebras - Ayla's favourite	Flamingos - "Pink Ostriches" (as one kid exclaimed !)
Polar Bears - chillin' out by the pool	Tiger - Cat napping in his den
Emus - Cousins of the Ostrich, they are the second fastest birds	Auntie Ashley with Ayla
Riding a full grown Komodo Dragon - a bronze one	With Derek in the forest

Ayla and Alex

Ayla loves Alex, her first cousin once removed. Here he is carrying her in the sling, while Mommy eats ! 20 year old Alex is receiving good schooling for the years ahead.

Ayla the Sailor

On Saturday we went for a cruise on Lake Ontario on my Aunt and Uncle's boat, a 32 foot sail boat. Ayla slept and then hung out in the sling. Since the boat was providing a steady rocking motion I was spared having to sway :) I don't know if we will make a sailor out of her, but she definitly has shown a good start !

Ontario Early Years Center

We have an Early Years Center close to my Aunt and Uncle's place. It's a center geared towards increasing literacy in children, designed for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. THey have activities for the babies, like music classes and they have books and puppets and toys, as well as a padded baby room. For the older kids they have arts and crafts and also many activites, like stories and singing and music and movement classes. It's wonderful, and a great place to meet other moms and babies. The pictures are from a "Mother Goose on the Loose" class for babies and some shots of the center.

Heading Back to Canada

As many of you know, Ayla and Ania have gone back to Canada. They left Israel via Tel Aviv on July 29. Amir will be joining them as soon as possible. Ania and Ayla will be staying with Ania's Auntie and Uncle in Mississauga for the time being. Here are some pics of the plane ride. The first picture shows Ayla being entertained and amused by Dillon's mom and a puppet while sitting in the basinet on the airplane. In the second picture Ayla is asleep next to Dillon in the basinet. Both babies were about 6 months and we managed to arrange them diagonally next to each other in the basinet ! There was one basinet in our row for 3 babies, Mica, Dillon and Ayla ! Ayla was a super star on the plane, she didn't cry during take off or landing and she slept a lot. Her mom, on the other hand had a stomach bug and vomitted and felt awful.