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

Sweet girl

Nadia is off school today until friday for the thanksgiving break. I was making the sandwich for Ammar's lunch.... and Nadia talks to me.

Me: "Nadia, did you hear those bad boys upstairs ?" (teasing... and hearing those noisy "boys" upstairs)
Nadia : "Yeah... and do you know who is nice ?"
Me : "who ?"
Nadia : "Me. I am a nice girl, and my mom is really nice mommy. I am so lucky to have her as my mommy"

6 year old molar

Nadia starts to sprout her 6 year old molar. She is 5 years 7 months and I start to feel the cusp of her tooth #3 (upper right first permanent molar) out of the gum. The left, and bottom ones are big budge....

She has been running fever, only at night, since Saturday, and I am worry sick because there is no signs of runny nose, cough, sore throat, ache, only high fever. If she is not getting better tomorrow, they want to see Nadia at the pediatrician's office. As of today, she has not gone to school for 2 days now.

the school with homework

I enrolled Nadia at the Sunday school at the mosque. Today is the second week.
Me: "Nadia, go get ready, you are going to school today."
Nadia : "Mommy, is it the school with homework ?"
Me : "yes, sweetheart!"
Nadia : "I haven't memorize the homework yet."
Me: "I will help you up."

Nadia's currently enrolled at the Private Montessori Kindergarten, the Montessori method doesn't give homeworks to the students....

hehe

Go to the office

Ammar has been longing to bring his little princess to his office. Today is the last week before Nadia goes to Kindergarten, and also his light day (no clinics), paper work day in the morning.
So, off she goes with her daddy, excited, because her daddy also wanted to teach Nadia how to use microscope at his office.
Have fun Nadia. I will pick you up with Aidan at the hospital and straight to have fun in the pool.

Love,
Mom

Quite an artist

I see close similarity between Nadia and her cousin, Zhara, daughter of my belated brother. Zhara is also Pisces, her birthday and Nadia's are very close to each other.
Zhara is very talented artist, she won a whole bunch of trophies in any drawing competitions. She also is very smart, always the first in her class. I saw her report card when I came to visit her, it was a jaw dropping, from all the subjects, she only had the lowest of 88 in sports, the rests are above 90.
She is also prays 5 times a day, ... anyway, looking at her, it's like a dream of every parent wants their child to be.

Nadia is a wonderful kid, she has been since she was born, but she is not perfect.

Lately, I have seen some resemblance of her drawing talent towards Zhara's talent. She loves to draw under the breakfast table in our great room, and she colored perfectly with pastel, and instantly, the drawing reminds me of Zhara's.

It's holy month... I will pray for what it takes that Nadia grows up to be like her....

I love you so much, Nadia.. for me you are perfectly imperfect that I wouldn't trade you with anyone else in this world.

First lose baby tooth

Just right before she lost her first baby tooth!

Lose Tooth

Nadia is almost 5.5 and she told Miss Andrea, her baby sitter that she has lose tooth when they were playing at the tree house.
Miss Andrea came back home and told me about it. I checked on her tooth, and found the tooth number 66 came lose, and her new tooth was pretty big compares to the older one it will be replacing soon.

Wow, my baby is getting bigger!

Quip

We went to pick up strawberry at the strawberry farm. Nadia and Sam had wonderful time picking the berries together while Aidan was busy eating the strawberry and making strawberry mustache.
Sam never wanted to try strawberries, but Nadia made him try... and he loves them.
We found funny shapes of strawberries and they tasted so good.
Nadia : "Hey, I found this Daddy strawberry.. it's hairy!!"

half japanese

Nadia has been very interested in her racial root.

Ammar and her went to the store, she talked to the cashier and said :

"Hi, my name is Nadia. I am 4 years old, but I am going to be 5 soon. My mom is from Indonesia and my daddy is Syrian, and I AM half japanese."

Such a sweet little girl

Nadia, the more she grows up, she turns out to be such a sweet hearted girl. She would help me out with the diapers, emptying the dish washer, folding laundry, or just kiss me every time I hurt myself. She always says : "You are the best mommy in the whole world!" 

She loves her little brother and always says how sweet Aidan is and how much she loves him.

She loves to write a love letter for her daddy. Her hand writing is rather good, and she loves drawing and playing make believe.

Sometimes I am amazed to see how she grows to be a very cute little girl. I don't consider myself pretty, cute maybe, but not pretty, but Gosh, every time I see her, she looks very pretty.

I hope God will help her, protect her, and bless her whole life. 

She is a precious little girl and I am so blessed to be her mommy, I am so glad that God picked me to spend my time with her, and trust me to take care of her. 

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, MY LITTLE PRINCESS

Zetta, the new betta

After stopping by at the toy store today, and Nadia got the mozaic craft thingy, she ended up choosing another betta fish. I got her the whole set of aquarium for her. She decided to name the fish Zetta A (with our last name, part of the family, supposedly).

She had a good time today.

Trust

When we got home from vacation, our neighbor, Andrea who took care of Colorfulla (Nadia's fish) came by to tell that the fish just couldn't make it (passed away) the morning when we came back home. For some reason, Ammar told Nadia that morning before we got the news that Colorfulla may not make it... so she was just fine, took the fish from the fish bowl, and chose to flush it down in the toilet for the funeral.

The next morning, Nadia, the chatterbox who woke up 4.30 am for the last 2 days talked to her daddy :

Nadia : "Daddy, do you know that I can trust only Mommy, you and Aidan ? You cannot trust strangers. You can trust Miss Janet (her school teacher), Mommy Melissa (Milla's mom), Mommy Maria (Luca's mom), not people around on the street. I also can trust Colorfulla. "

Ammar: "Colorfulla ?"

Nadia : "Yes, she is my pet, so I can trust her. ... (pause)... Oh no.. I can't trust colorfulla anymore because she is dead. Mommy is going to buy me a new beta fish"

She also been making human body puzzles and wrap them up as presents with bows for her friends at school. Of course, she draws them from my human anatomy book.. the real one. She is so interested in human body. She spent hours working on it.

Smallest brain

Before bed time.

Nadia : "Daddy, do you know who has the smallest brain in our family ?"

Daddy : "Aidan ?

Nadia : "No, Daddy. It's Colourfulla." (PS: Colourfulla is our betta fish)

Quote of the day

Ammar drove Nadia and Aidan to school this morning. He called home and told this :

Ammar : "Should I open the window or put the heating on ?"

Nadia : "Just drive, Daddy!"

Studio Session

Today, she seriously went to her room, got dressed and picked this favorite "princess dress" of hers and wore it. My chance was to take picture of her for the first time in my studio at home.

She definitely look so much bigger than her age in this photo.

Busy watching TV