Going on 4 years old

Drawing

This is Alicia, our neighbor sitter who comes only once a week for 2 hours. Nadia and Aidan loves Alicia, she is the daughter of one of our favorite neighbors. Aidan happens to be so tired and fell asleep while I picked up Nadia from school. Nadia came back home finding she had Alicia all for herself, she was so happy and draw a picture of her and Aidan for Alicia. I was so surprise finding her drawing, I though it was Alicia's drawing or Alicia helped her up with the drawing, but Alicia proudly said that it was all Nadia's work. She brought it home happily. I managed to take a picture of her drawing before Alicia brought it home and show it to Ammar. The girl is really talented, I think. What do you think, readers ? This drawing is made 12 days shy from Nadia's 4th birthday

Ice skating lesson

It's the second lesson Nadia had. She made big progress, she could stand up all by herself and make tiny steps on ice. I promised Nadia that I would jump right after the lesson finished for the 15 minutes they allowed. Nadia was so happy to see me on ice, too. I made her practice stepping and got up by herself again. She was so happy back home and ate really good dinner. Aidan stays with Ana, the sitter and he was so happy to see us back home from lesson.

I got her the giro ski helmet and she loves her helmet. I can't let her use the helmet they provide since they are soo big on Nadia's little head.  Little heads run in the family, I guess, but don't question the quality of our head.. ha..ha.. they are pretty smart. 

I promised Nadia that once she is good on ice, I will buy her the new pair of skating shoes, of course, she chooses pink ones.

Doodlebop Show

We got 2 tickets to see the DoodleBop show from Melissa, Milla's mom. It was a really nice present. We enjoyed the show really much as Nadia recognized the Doodlebop's crew : Rooney, Deedee and Moe from the TV. 

Nadia's Daddy was just so worry that we drove in a frigid cold weather for 1.5 hour to get to Auburn Hills and thinking about walking from the huge parking lot to the show, made him drove us to the show, dropped us up right on the door and he ended up having a good time at Starbucks Coffee with Aidan and picked us up right on the door again and went home.

The weather was unbearably cold. We went outside just for 2 minutes and our head were just freezed! 

We came home and Nadia fell asleep happily without eating dinner... she was just so happy and tired.

Milla, Melissa, thank you so much for the show.

Plowing and Nadia had fun!

Finally

Nadia hates to be taken pictures of. She won't see the camera... or she would run away, or just playing deaf. 

I finally showed her the picture I took in September when she was out of the blue asking me to take picture of her and literally posed in front of the camera! Then I showed her the pictures I took which was almost all blurry, or not looking, or just a fake smile but still not looking at the camera.

I convinced her to take just some pictures and asked her to sit down against the window and asked her to LOOK at the camera and smile naturally. I asked her to sing one of the song from Sound of Music... Here it is.. finally I got the nice picture of her again.

Another quote from her today :

Ammar: "Let's go out, Nadia."

Nadia : "Okay Daddy, but tomorrow we are going to go out in the snow BUT only for playing, Daddy. Don't clean the drive way or working. We are going to play in the snow...."

(aaaaahhh.. finally my complain to Ammar got the support from my little girl.. hahaha)

Nadia's snowman

This time, there is no Ammar's involvement in the making of snowman. It was Mommy Nadia time, of course, when Ammar was plowing the snow with the tractor, we played with the snow. The snow was too dry and powdery, it was kind of hard to make the balls from it, so we just shovel the snow, and carve it to be snowman. The snowman looks good, we think. Nadia was satisfied, and the neighbors can see because this year, we made snowman in the front yard instead of the backyard.

This is the picture of the snowman on the 3rd day, melted a bit, but not much.

Happy New Year 2008

New Year January 1 started by waking up and cuddling together in our bedroom, watching how much snow we had from the snow storm overnight starting on the new year's eve.

Our drive way is just soooo long.. Ammar needs help from the neighbor to help out to make the path for his tractor. The wheels needed to be chained but it has not been, so he got slipped several times in the snow.

Lots of snow, so me and Nadia decided to make snow in the front of our house, not in the back yard as we always did. It was hard to mold, because the snow was so dry and powdery. Nadia didn't care, she ran in and dipped herself in the snow, licking the snow, doing lots of snow angels, and of course... making snow man. We had to continue the next day because the snow was just too powdery.

We went out to do shopping once Aidan woke up from nap and Mommy bought Nadia the snowman set, and the snowman looks so awesome... it was really nice that Mommy don't have to bring out chocolates, candies, and carrots for the snowman's attributes, instead she just bring everything out of the box to make snowman's eyes, hat, scarf, etc... voila.. 

We are back!

We are back midnight! Nadia was exhausted. She went straight to bed, and she LOVES her bed. She has been asking to go home since the last 2 days of our vacation in Sedona. She just love her home so much.

Verde Canyon Train Ride

Nadia is just super easy to make friends. While waiting to go aboard, in a blink of eyes, she made friend with a boy who travels from London.

Trip to Arizona

promise to keep you up to date

Hi all, we are in Sedona, Arizona. It's Nadia's 2nd time here and Aidan's first time. We love the Red Rock in Sedona, beautiful and most importantly, we just in time running away from the snow storm back home in northeast. When we left, it was about to start, our flight got a bit delayed and we arrived in Phoenix, AZ a bit late, and unfortunately we got a bad rent a car and had to return it back to the airport and waited for a good 1 hour there to get the replacement. But we got a good car, for what's its worth.

On Monday, Nadia's preschool was closed due to the bad storm, good thing Nadia is safe and warm in Sedona, I wonder if we are home, we must be just got stuck at home.

Nadia loves swimming in the hotel. She got her own sofa bed, and Aidan slept in a mommy made crib for a day until he got his playpen. 

We had a 4 hours train ride at Verde Canyon and she made friends just like a blink of an eyes. 

Once we are back, mommy will put some pictures on this blogspot.

The weather is so nice, about 30 in the morning and night, and raised to 60s when the sun out. 

On the traveling, Nadia has been very good big sister by entertaining Aidan in the car, Aidan loves Nadia so much.

Daddy is home

Finally, Ammar came home from Atlanta. It has been very busy days, during his traveling, we went to visit Uncle Bill and Auntie Lisa. When we got home, Nadia thought that her daddy was home, too, but when she found out that she had to wait another day to see her daddy, she got so all sad. Her daddy called her, she didn't want to talk on the phone with him. Then I talked to him in the kitchen, so sudden Nadia came to me and hugged my legs and cried so sadly. She missed her daddy, and finally she talked on the phone with him crying so much and said how much she missed him.

Ammar called again at night, and told her that he has present for her..

Nadia : "What is it, daddy ?"

Ammar : "It's a suprise! You will see it when I fly back home tomorrow. I promise I will pick you up at school early"

Nadia : "Is it a horse daddy ? I know it, it's a real horse. You promised to buy it for me.. yes, it is a horse daddy!!!"

Me (oh Gosh, it's way so different than horse.. they are 3 books....)

When we picked up Nadia from school, She was so excited with her present, she had Ammar read the whole books from Dr. Seuss while I am preparing dinner. She loves her books.

Today, when Ammar went to work, she asked her dad to buy her another present... a HORSE...

That's the life of Nadia... the horse lover.

Try to get away from sleeping

Nadia sneaked out from her bedroom, came to our room, and said : "I need a hug and kisses from you, mommy, daddy!"

Ammar gave her a big hug and kisses.. she were not planning to go back to bed... excuse..excuse...

Ammar said : "Nadia.. you got your hugs and kisses! Go back to bed, please!"

Nadia (blinking her eyes... acting like she was so scared!!) : "But Daddy!!! I am so scared from the monster. The shadows in my bedroom looks like monster, with 3 fingers, right hand and left hand (showing her 3 fingers right and left, and moving them around)... it's so scary, Daddy!!!"

Ammar : (he can't hold his laugh, he laughed and gave her a big hug) and said : "Come one, I take you to your room"

FYI : Nadia now sleeps with the light on.. I wonder who she takes after... MOMMY FROGGY!!!

Great playdate

Nadia is just plain happy today. Her best buddy, Uncle Bill came over with Auntie Lisa. We went to the Natural History Museum and the planetarium, leaving Aidan and her Dad home. We also ate pumpkin donut on the way back home. Yum!!

Regretfully, Mommy forgot to bring the camera with her... 

Check out the picture of Nadia with all the companies, except Mom (who took picture, who else ?) 

White Thanksgiving

Ammar is working on Thanksgiving day. But when he got home, we finally went out to enjoy our fresh snow of the day. Nadia gleefully and cheerfully played outside, after begging both of us to go out and play the whole day...finally we agreed that she could play outside with one condition that she only can scoop out snow but not eating it, BUT she just can't stand not to eat the snow.. She kept saying that she had great time with Grandma (Owan), my mother, when it snowed and she got to eat the snow with Owan... oh Dear!!! The girl always loves to eat ice!!!!

You are so boyly

We were in the car, driving to get my new set of pans. Daddy teased Nadia by tickling her legs.. while he was driving. Nadia screamed and asked him not to do it.

Daddy : "You are so girly, Nadia."

Nadia : "I am a girl, Daddy, and you are so BOYLY!"

Daddy, are you okay ?

Daddy always call home when he was on the way back home from office. Usually Mommy put the cell phone on speakerphone so both of us can talk on the phone with Daddy. If Nadia is not too busy coloring or playing, she usually eager to talk to him.

While we were talking, Nadia kinda moved the cell phone and dropped to the carpet... I still talked to Ammar because it was not hung up. I noticed that she was so quietly and gently pick up the phone and put it up on the table again... and she whispered : "Daddy... are you okay ?"

Ammar on the other hand who didn't know what was going on, he answered : "I am okay, Nadia!!!"

I couldn't help not to laugh.... then Ammar asked : "What happened ?" 

I explained, and Nadia, who listened, she started to laugh, too.. realizing that when the phone was dropped, it has nothing to do with Daddy got dropped down... hahahha.

Tractor, Daddy and ME

For the first time, Ammar let Nadia rides the tractor. He was not mowing, just sweeping, pretty safe. Nadia enjoyed every minute of spending time with her Daddy.

Monster

She loves this monster book and she decided to draw monster all by herself.... isn't it cool ? She also wrote her name in this masterpiece. Nadia, this girl is funny. If you just let her draw the whole day, she will do it.