Love you my little sister!!
This is how you stretch before you go for a run
I said leave my cheek alone
Calm down naughty sister, you are too jumpy
Friday, July 9, 2010
Mobility - My New Found Love
I have been hopping on the walker for a while now and the wheels have also been put on for quite some time. But in recent days, I am making true use of it. It started with my ability to crawl over any small to medium sized obstacles. I am the king (queen rather) when I am on the floor with no known boundaries. I can now reach out to my sister and snatch what she was playing with (pay back time, big sister!). With a good understanding of benefits of movement, I have translated that onto my walking skills - really using those walker wheels to its fullest. I move from room to room, often with great speed. Thoroughly enjoying this experience!
You know that I could sit very well now. So the trick to my mobility has expanded into a switch from sitting to crawling in less than 6 seconds, I kid you not ... this is state of the art mobile stuff. I am working on crawling to sitting right now. Little bit more to go in that area. Of course it works when I throw a little tantrum when I can't sit back up ... one of the adults comes to rescue.
My mom and us were playing hide and seek the other day. My mom went to hiding ... and my sister was telling me it was ok - it was only a game. I stood there quietly. My sister spent some time looking for my mom - but after a while she was getting frustrated. Forgetting what she was telling me minutes back, she started to cry. I thought I would take it on myself to rescue my poor sister. I walked around in my walker and found my mom hiding in the bedroom. My mom thought that was very smart of me. I am well establishing the notion that I am the more calm and collected among the two of us - me and my sister.
You know that I could sit very well now. So the trick to my mobility has expanded into a switch from sitting to crawling in less than 6 seconds, I kid you not ... this is state of the art mobile stuff. I am working on crawling to sitting right now. Little bit more to go in that area. Of course it works when I throw a little tantrum when I can't sit back up ... one of the adults comes to rescue.
My mom and us were playing hide and seek the other day. My mom went to hiding ... and my sister was telling me it was ok - it was only a game. I stood there quietly. My sister spent some time looking for my mom - but after a while she was getting frustrated. Forgetting what she was telling me minutes back, she started to cry. I thought I would take it on myself to rescue my poor sister. I walked around in my walker and found my mom hiding in the bedroom. My mom thought that was very smart of me. I am well establishing the notion that I am the more calm and collected among the two of us - me and my sister.
Need very little support to stand
Monday, June 28, 2010
Sick Leave
Past couple of weeks was seasonal flu time. First it was my sister who fell sick. 4-5 days of coughing, runny nose, restless nights and then she was all good. Whose turn is next? Me of course. Same steps - coughing, runny nose, restless nights etc. My parents took us both to the doctor for a routine check and to make sure no extra precautions need to be taken. Nothing was required. Every day my mom will pour some liquid in my nose followed by a drop sucker to pull out some runny stuff. I have to say - I hate that feeling. I don't cry much, believe. But invasion into my nose can never be tolerated.
At night they turn on the vaporiser so I get a relatively good nights sleeps. That's bit more acceptable. Still, its hard to sleep through the night for a little girl like me if I can't breathe properly. Anyways, good news is, I am lot better now.
At night they turn on the vaporiser so I get a relatively good nights sleeps. That's bit more acceptable. Still, its hard to sleep through the night for a little girl like me if I can't breathe properly. Anyways, good news is, I am lot better now.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Seven Months
Tick tock, tick tock ... and it's seven months. We celebrated my turning of month seven. Second half of the year already and not too far from my birthday. Time is rolling fast and I am turning into a big girl pretty quickly. Since I can sit now, I can take a bath with my sister in the tub together - which is good fun. My sister can give me a back rub and shampoo my hair. What I don't like her to do though is pour water on my head. Wait till I get a little bit bigger and pour it back on her. But we both like playing with our duckies in the water.
Yummy cake
Monday, June 14, 2010
Magic Moments
Happy little camper
Look ma, I'm sitting and splashing
Bye bye Lola - can't wait for you to visit us soon
Asheque's Angels
Now lets see, if an object travels faster than the speed of light ...
Sunday, May 9, 2010
My Sister's 2nd Birthday
April 29 was my sister's second birthday. My parents' schedule and weekends didn't quite align with the following weekend - so we settled for May 8th as the day to celebrate her birthday officially. Mommy had setup our backyard for the birthday celebration and turned it into little children's playground. And there were a few of them on that day. Too bad I am too young to get on any of the rides.
My big sister has already learned to blow the candle - so the spotlight was on her to show it off. Challenge for her of course was to do that without getting the cake wet! I was asleep most of the party. All that fuss wasn't able to keep me away from my routine sleep. But I got up just before it was time for my sister to get to her cake. It was a cool party in the end - lots of food, toys and games, lots of bubbles and yummy treats. I can't wait for my 1st birthday. Boy, that promises to be a really cool event too.
Mommy turned the backyard into a playground
My sister loves her Hi5 and therefore the theme was, you guessed it, Hi5. I spend quite a bit of time watching Hi5 myself since my sister hogs the TV every time we are in the living area. I have however developed a very matured taste of In the Night Garden. That's one program on the tele that gets my undivided attention when its on. Anyhow, Hi5 it was on her special day.
The birthday girl with my parents
My big sister has already learned to blow the candle - so the spotlight was on her to show it off. Challenge for her of course was to do that without getting the cake wet! I was asleep most of the party. All that fuss wasn't able to keep me away from my routine sleep. But I got up just before it was time for my sister to get to her cake. It was a cool party in the end - lots of food, toys and games, lots of bubbles and yummy treats. I can't wait for my 1st birthday. Boy, that promises to be a really cool event too.
My sister blows the candle as I looked on
Sunday, April 18, 2010
My first solid
Today mommy made me some rice serial to try - my first solid ever. You'd think that I will be a little bit uncomfortable to start with. But I worked on it like a pro - as if I always knew how it should taste like. I finished the entire bowl in one sitting. No hesitation what-so-ever. Check out the picture mommy and daddy took as they got me through my first attempt at solids.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
See us grow in Daddy's arms - 6 months on
25 November 2009
25 December 2009
7 February 2010
24 March 2010
30 March 2010
1 April 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
California in Pictures
Mommy hunted down her old-time favourite fast food
After the long flight and change of timezone, our favourite pass-time was sleeping
Daddy awarded himself the 'best parent' award as my sister looked on
Mommy, Ayesha and myself in Santa Monica Pier
Daddy was looking for some big inspirations
Me and my sister ready for the day trip
My sister lost in the American Girl
Mommy taking a stroll in The Grove with me
Hunting for the Hollywood sign
With lola Tess
Daddy and Ayesha joined the street party in Disneyland
Mommy and us in the Disney's
The A-Team: Asheque, Ayesha and Aliyah
Our family and Minnie
Friday, February 12, 2010
World Tour
It felt like that. Can you imagine a tiny little baby like me travelling over the Pacific Ocean on a flight almost 14 hours long, crossing over the date-line, landing in a country where people drive on the wrong side of the road? Well, at least my dad thought so when he mistakenly drove to the 'right' side a couple of times. Anyway, I am talking about our little trip to USA. Daddy has been travelling a lot lately and mostly without us around. That is not fair at all for a little girl like me. He was missing out on a lot of things. So despite the possibility of this being a huge challenge, my parents decided to travel as a family for his next work trip. To sweeten it a little bit, daddy mixed his business with some vacation leaves as well.
Traveling with two kids under two is stressful from the moment you decide to do it. The planning has to be perfect. Going from home to the airport itself is a challenge. My parents kept reminding themselves of being in the 'Amazing Race'. There were so many things to think about ... How to go through security with water bottles and sterile water? How will we bring along our car seats? Should we check-in the stroller or not? What would be the right type of car to hire when we land in Los Angeles? All of that had to be pre-planned and ready to go. Because once you hit the road, there is not much opportunity to change things.
But in the end, it all went pretty well. Daddy intentionally made sure we were flying in the new A380 airbuses so that there were more room to move - especially if both my sister and I got flight-sick. The plane was not really full and the kind ground staff made sure the seat in between my mom and dad were kept blocked. We had a bassinet seat - so my sleeping arrangement was sorted.
I was amazing on the way up - hardly a cry. It was a bit uncomfortable while we took off and about to land - but that was about it. Rest of the flight I settled in a cozy sleep. Meanwhile my sister was making friends with co-passengers. She was running around and saying hello to whoever she could find. As we landed in LA, taking a couple of trolley full of luggages to our car rental booth proved to be a little more challenging - but it all got sorted out eventually. Finally we were on our way to our holiday apartment.
Majority of our stay in California was in Anaheim. The holiday apartment is just next to Disneyland. Mommy and daddy already pre-ordered some groceries for delivery to the holiday apartment. When we arrived, it was all sorted out for us. We just had to work out what we wanted to do. Well it was easy for the first day - all of us just slept.
Rest our stay went on pretty smoothly. Firstly we went around the various parts of LA to get star-struck. My parents didn't have too much luck though. But with two pretty princess around them, they didn't care much anyway. So it was Sunset Boulevard, Santa Monica Piers, Beverley Hills, Kodak Theatre and all the places my parents have heard off from their lifetime of TV watching - we followed the trail. My sister had a stopover at the American Girl to pick up a doll.
Daddy had his company conference in San Diego. So half-way into our trip, we took a road trip from LA to San Diego. It was a bit tough ... those two days as mommy had to tackle us by herself when we were in hotel. Daddy had to be out and about most days. But then there was Lola Tess. She made sure she was available for us despite her very busy schedule. So as daddy will leave for the day, mommy will get us ready ahead of Lola Tess picking us up. She'd then take us around and return us back home late in the evening, when daddy is back. We went around shopping and eating with Ninang and titas, Nicole and Steph.
After daddy finished her work part of the trip, we took a drive back towards LA again - Anaheim to be specific. This time, we have planned for a trip to the Disneyland. It was a fun-filled trip. While I ensured I made it easy for the rest of them by not crying, my mom and dad and sister Ayesha had a ball. They bounced around from attraction to attraction and taking pictures along the way with Mickey, Minnie and the others. End of the day, the little kids in my mom and dad was saying, we got to be back here when Aliyah is a little bit bigger. I know it wasn't me they want to go back there for!
Oh well, after a good 10-days of hanging out in USA, it was time to be back home. My parents were very thankful neither me nor Ayesha picked up any sickness despite some late nights and cool weather of California. We all got to the airport with plenty of time in our hand. You should have seen daddy juggle with now even bigger and heavier luggage. There's one lesson to learn when travelling with kids ... if you can, just travel with the kids and no luggage. Daddy will swear to that.
The flight back was a little more stressful. I wasn't totally comfortable and neither was my sister. Half way through the flight, we both started to cry. That took a little bit of effort to manage. Thankfully even the stewards were helping out. Eventually we touched down in Sydney ... bringing to an end to an amazing adventure. We hi-five'd each other for being such a great family. We had a wonderful time together. Daddy and mommy was so pleased. Daddy would feel less guilty next time he had to travel again without us.
Traveling with two kids under two is stressful from the moment you decide to do it. The planning has to be perfect. Going from home to the airport itself is a challenge. My parents kept reminding themselves of being in the 'Amazing Race'. There were so many things to think about ... How to go through security with water bottles and sterile water? How will we bring along our car seats? Should we check-in the stroller or not? What would be the right type of car to hire when we land in Los Angeles? All of that had to be pre-planned and ready to go. Because once you hit the road, there is not much opportunity to change things.
But in the end, it all went pretty well. Daddy intentionally made sure we were flying in the new A380 airbuses so that there were more room to move - especially if both my sister and I got flight-sick. The plane was not really full and the kind ground staff made sure the seat in between my mom and dad were kept blocked. We had a bassinet seat - so my sleeping arrangement was sorted.
I was amazing on the way up - hardly a cry. It was a bit uncomfortable while we took off and about to land - but that was about it. Rest of the flight I settled in a cozy sleep. Meanwhile my sister was making friends with co-passengers. She was running around and saying hello to whoever she could find. As we landed in LA, taking a couple of trolley full of luggages to our car rental booth proved to be a little more challenging - but it all got sorted out eventually. Finally we were on our way to our holiday apartment.
Majority of our stay in California was in Anaheim. The holiday apartment is just next to Disneyland. Mommy and daddy already pre-ordered some groceries for delivery to the holiday apartment. When we arrived, it was all sorted out for us. We just had to work out what we wanted to do. Well it was easy for the first day - all of us just slept.
Rest our stay went on pretty smoothly. Firstly we went around the various parts of LA to get star-struck. My parents didn't have too much luck though. But with two pretty princess around them, they didn't care much anyway. So it was Sunset Boulevard, Santa Monica Piers, Beverley Hills, Kodak Theatre and all the places my parents have heard off from their lifetime of TV watching - we followed the trail. My sister had a stopover at the American Girl to pick up a doll.
Daddy had his company conference in San Diego. So half-way into our trip, we took a road trip from LA to San Diego. It was a bit tough ... those two days as mommy had to tackle us by herself when we were in hotel. Daddy had to be out and about most days. But then there was Lola Tess. She made sure she was available for us despite her very busy schedule. So as daddy will leave for the day, mommy will get us ready ahead of Lola Tess picking us up. She'd then take us around and return us back home late in the evening, when daddy is back. We went around shopping and eating with Ninang and titas, Nicole and Steph.
After daddy finished her work part of the trip, we took a drive back towards LA again - Anaheim to be specific. This time, we have planned for a trip to the Disneyland. It was a fun-filled trip. While I ensured I made it easy for the rest of them by not crying, my mom and dad and sister Ayesha had a ball. They bounced around from attraction to attraction and taking pictures along the way with Mickey, Minnie and the others. End of the day, the little kids in my mom and dad was saying, we got to be back here when Aliyah is a little bit bigger. I know it wasn't me they want to go back there for!
Oh well, after a good 10-days of hanging out in USA, it was time to be back home. My parents were very thankful neither me nor Ayesha picked up any sickness despite some late nights and cool weather of California. We all got to the airport with plenty of time in our hand. You should have seen daddy juggle with now even bigger and heavier luggage. There's one lesson to learn when travelling with kids ... if you can, just travel with the kids and no luggage. Daddy will swear to that.
The flight back was a little more stressful. I wasn't totally comfortable and neither was my sister. Half way through the flight, we both started to cry. That took a little bit of effort to manage. Thankfully even the stewards were helping out. Eventually we touched down in Sydney ... bringing to an end to an amazing adventure. We hi-five'd each other for being such a great family. We had a wonderful time together. Daddy and mommy was so pleased. Daddy would feel less guilty next time he had to travel again without us.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Sunday, January 3, 2010
Magic Moments
It's all about me
Let me sleep while you fix the camera, daddy
I said I don't like to be tanned
Happy little christmas
Welcome 2010
Hello 2010!
Born towards the end of 2009, the new year came pretty soon for me. Soon after I made it to my first month, there I was celebrating a new year. Welcome 2010!
It's a big milestone for both my parents. 10 years back, in year 2000, they met each other for the first time. It was the same year they both moved to Sydney and set up their new lives. Little could they predict, 10 years on their life together and sprinkle of me and my sister on top ... perfect!
So 2010 it is. There's lot to look forward in it for me. This year I will turn one. A bit of a wait though. My sister will turn two soon. And between the two of us, I bet we will create a lot more 'firsts'.
For my parents, most of 2009 was carrying me in my mommy's tummy and making sure I come out just right. Mommy had a short stint at work in between maternity leaves.
With me being so small, there was no going out for the new years eve celebration. We settled for watching the fireworks on TV. We had a cozy midnight dinner set up at home. Uncle Jhovan joined us for that. But I was too sleepy as the clock hit 12 midnight. I slept into the new year.
Over the weekend, we had a pool breakfast party to welcome home tita Mitch's special friend, Stefan. It was a glorious morning to start with and daddy and my sister had a splash in the pool with their friends. Soon it turned cloudy and started to rain. All of that did not bother me a tiny bit - I was tucked in woolly wrap in my mommy's arms.
Ayesha and daddy enjoying summer morning
Later in the day, my parents had an appointment with ASG rep, Nafeesa. She had some beautiful gifts for me too. Mommy and daddy signed me up for the same scholarship fund they had for Ayesha. They also included their new feature of primary school fund. So I will get a nice little certificate like my sister has too! My parents have been advocating ASG plan to all their friends who has young kids or about to have one. It really sets in front me what they value most for me. It will be up to me though to make the most out of it.
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