Happy Hanukkah!

This year, in honor of our friends the Duren-Lubanski family who are coming to visit in 5 days (yay!), we got a menorah to help celebrate Hanukkah. Christopher was very excited to light the menorah for the first time after he had to sit there and look at it for the last week or so. We said some of the prayers (Mommy even attempted the Hebrew--it's a good thing the ladies will be here soon to help us with that!) and lit the candles. Chris even got to help light the first candle! He really enjoyed it. Then, when we were done, we spun the dreidel a few times and practiced saying the letter names on it. Unfortunately we don't have any potato latkes tonight; falafel will have to do for now. Later tonight we have to switch gears and we are going to the Jeff and Kay annual neighborhood Christmas party!