[Saya]

I just wanted to add that as I mentioned in the "Help me choose a Hebrew name" thread we have FINALLY gotten our act together to do the conversion! We are talking to a Rabbi and will be taking our daughter to the Mikveh in the next month or so, probably with a naming ceremony to follow at services a few weeks or so later.

I have to say, it's so funny but our daughter really seems like the super Jew of the family so far. I grew up Reform and come from a TOTALLY secular family. My husband had more of a Jewish education then I did, but remains ambivilent about it. But it has always been important to us that our daughter was converted because, well she's OUR daughter, and she's a part of the family and no one should be able to question that she's Jewish. It should be a part of her life to accept or reject as she sees fit.

Then we started taking her to Shabbat sing-along at a local shul - mostly, honestly, to have something to do on cold and rainy Saturday mornings, and now she's TOTALLY into it. She's starting singing her own versions of Shabbat songs around the house, like "Shabbat -- hey!" (leaving out the "shalom" in the middle). And after the sing-along's over she LOVES to go downstairs and sit in on this egalitarian conservadox minyan that meets in the Rabbi's office. Last Saturday she was walking toward the minyan and said "I need hat and book" -- meaning a kippah and a siddur. And while we celebrate both X-mas and Hanukkah (with different parts of the family) she was totally into Hanukkah and could kind of take or leave X-mas.

Maybe she's just one of those Jewish souls.