For Nadia with Love. From Mommy

After Nadia was invited by her art teacher, the urge of drawing rushed in my blood. Aidan came with me to Michaels to buy the set of pencils and watercolor paper. Of course, Aidan got to pick a car for himself. On the way back home, Aidan fell asleep, got in garage, Aidan was still sleeping. 30 minutes did the sketching while Aidan was sleeping, I came up with this. The horse Nadia always wanted. Hopefully in the future she would have her own real one.
I framed it and put it on her side table by her bed. She always put a horse next to her bed. A surprise for her once she got back from school and her girl scouts activity tonight.

I love you, Nadia!

Horse back riding, finally!!!!

After waiting for 2 years, finally mommy gave up and found an awesome horse back riding place near the house. Nadia was so excited, for the first month, she rode on her bike helmet, then on the 5th lessons, seeing how serious Nadia was with her horse back riding, I finally invested on an expensive horseback riding helmet for her. She looked so cute in it.

Proud Mommy

Nadia is a very sensitive, kind, and generous girl. She is the one who will come to her friends if they ever got sad at school. I got teacher's report on this.

This morning, she lost her 4th tooth, and she got $10, she said she would put it in the piggy bank for her project to pay tuition for guatemalan kids. This project is a non forgetful project, Nadia would rather put the money she got in this guatemalan piggy bank than her own piggy bank.

Since she started this awesome school with Aidan, it has been only 3 months, she has raised $30 from tooth fairy for her 3 lost teeth, and $15 from doing tasks around the house from me. All went to her fundraising project.

I am so proud of her, I am so proud of what she has become.

I love you so much, Nadia, please don't change. Keep up the great work

A stinky Doctor

Ammar went to work on Friday morning, and didn't come back home until Saturday afternoon. When he got home, we were in the bathroom taking a whirlpool bath. He went to shower, came out of the shower, and said : "ahhhhh.... it's great to feel my body clean."
Nadia said : "What Daddy ? Why you said that ?"
Ammar : "Because I didn't take shower since yesterday. I worked so much for you guys!"
Nadia : "Ah... so today you are a stinky doctor, daddy. Poor your patients"

Lost her 4th tooth on the cruise

We flew to Miami, FL to go on the cruise ship to Carribean Sea and ended up in Mexico and came back again to Miami, and fly back to Detroit. We spent 2 days in Miami back and forth, and what so funny about Nadia is that she is so easy to make friends everywhere she goes. This trip she got really clicked on a girl named Lauren, 2 years older than Nadia, she has fabulous parents whom we really like, too. It's like a destiny, they stayed one night in Miami and one night coming back, and they lived about 1 hour from our house, and we ended up in the same plane coming back home.
We saw each other again in Mexico beach, when the cruise was docked, and in 2 occasions, we bumped each other again on the theatre's shows on the boat after formal dinners.

Nadia really had so much wonderful time, she had counted the days before we left for vacation. All the teachers in her school knew about the trip and they got all so excited for her.

The first night we spent on the cruise, her top front tooth came out. Tooth fairy came to the cruise to get her tooth and left some money. Nadia got sooooo excited!
Nadia is really a true traveller, she always lose her tooth on the trip, either on the plane rides, or this time, the cruise ship.

We also got so lucky to be called to the pilot's room on the way back from Miami. While Aidan got so busy looking at the buttons on the cockpit, Nadia was asked to make announcement to the passengers, dictated by the pilot.
Here is what she said :
"Good afternoon everyone. This is Captain Nadia speaking. We are going to fly from Miami International Airport directly to Detroit Airport. The flight will take about 3 hours. The weather is nice and sunny. This is Captain Nadia, enjoy your flight."

Here are the pictures of Nadia when she got in the cruise ship, the tooth still intact and the next morning when she lost her tooth.

Check out more pictures of the trip on the link above

Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Nadia is learning to write and she made the card for my mother, a drawing of her and my mom, building a snowman like when she came to visit us here in the US. She also wrote something without my help. I found it so cute that she managed to write things which sounded like the real words...

She also called her and sang her happy birthday song loud and clear and made my mom teary.

Thank you, Nadia