Happiness Is: A New Israeli Grandson!!

I am a SAVTA again, number four (4)! My son (Nathaniel Blumenstein) and his lovely wife Noodles (sister-in-law to Toodles) gave birth on Shabbat to their first child, a BOY, weighing in at 3 kilo, 180 gram, at Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem (which my Great Grandfather helped build!)
Baby, mother & father are exhausted but doing (baruch Hashem) fine. I wish I could be there. . .
And thank you to Suzie, their meyaledet*, who Nathaniel said was absolutely fantastic! It's a small world. . . (Suzie, of course I'm gonna blog about it. Hey, I didn't even know you read my blog; thank you for that, too!)

*midwife

Comments

Rafi G. said…
Mazel tov! mucho nachas!
1:15 AM
Lady-Light said…
RafiG: Thank you! so excited, I am still up - 1:45 a.m. by me...lailah tov--I mean, boker tov to you, lailah tov to me!
1:51 AM
Ye'he Sh'mey Raba Mevorach said…
SIMAN TOV u'MAZAL TOV!!!! Tizku legadlo le'torah, chuppah uma'asim tovim, u'livnot bayit ne'eman b'yisrael.

It's wonderful news. You'll get here! Mashiach is just around the corner...
3:52 AM
Batya said…
MAZAL TOV!! Great to hear good news!
7:29 AM
SuperRaizy said…
Oh, how wonderful! Big congratulations on the birth of your newest cutie pie!
9:40 AM
Laura(southernxyl) said…
He's beautiful! Number four, is he? I can't wait for mine.
10:05 AM
Lady-Light said…
Ye'he: Thank you, AMEN, ken yehi ratzon! Please tell the Kurtzers for me (I must have an incorrect address for them...they haven't emailed me yet)
Yes, around the corner;it's a very long corner, though...
batya: Todah rabah!
superraizy: Todah gam lach! You know what would be a real knockout? If all my Israeli blogger friends called my son to wish him a mazal tov--even though he doesn't know any of you! Email me...
10:22 AM
Leora said…
Mazel tov!
10:29 AM
rickismom said…
Mazel Tov!
12:20 AM
Jack Steiner said…
Mazal Tov.
10:52 AM
Elie said…
Mazel Tov!!
10:55 AM
David Staum said…
Mazal Tov!
12:38 PM
Lady-Light said…
leora, rickismom, jack, elie and dys: Todah rabah!
6:04 PM
Anonymous said…
Mazel Tov to the proud Savta as well as the rest of the family. May he bring you all much nachas.
10:17 PM
Anonymous said…
Mazal Tov!!! My mother always says bubbyhood (saftahood) is the best- you can enjoy them and then go home to enjoy a full night of sleep.
2:10 PM
Anonymous said…
Mazal tov! She'yizke le'mizvot, briyut, osher, parnasa ve'kol tuv! She'yivne bayit ne'eman be'eretz ha'kodesh!
2:09 PM
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