Snow fight!

finally we made it to the Mountains,

it's the first time that Ghadi experiences REAL snow 

Ghadi's Ear infection, again & school feedback!

Ghadi is having his third Otitis media within 4 months!
It all started in November and then we fell into non-stop mid-ear inflammation caused by the fluids behind the eardrum. It's not going away and it's causing hearing defect every time it's infected.
I had to pass by his school today to explain his situation, his teacher was relieved to know the cause because she noticed with another teacher that Ghadi doesn't respond sometimes when she calls his name...

On the other hand, her feedback about Ghadi was more than I expected.

Every mom would say her kids are brilliant, but i'm proudly saying with all the modesty in the world, that "Ghadi is having excellent visual memory and he's so dynamic and cooperative at class."-quoted :)

yest he's not into team spirit yet.

he doesn't like to share much

and he's not patient enough when it comes to drawing or coloring... 

hmmmmmmmmmmmm....

we've got to do something about that!

The little philosopher...

Ghadi: " Mom, Do we change our names when we grow up?"
Me: "....., of course not!
        don't you like your own name my dear?"
Ghadi :"mbala (I do like it)"
Then he falls in deep thinking gazing into nowhere....

Random Facts

The photo above gives clear quick hints to three facts:

Fact 1-this guy, (the older on

e) is the most adorable father

I know many many mothers will assume they have married the greatest husband-friend-lover

But I will humbly say, that I am constantly surprised about the amount of tenderness this man is able to express, give and transmit to his children

Jamil is very supporting,

I mean, lets’ admit, he wakes up in the night with me, holding our baby, singing to him at 3:00AM while I prepare the milk bottle

he would walk down our baby tens of times holding his tiny hands encouraging him to keep walking and supporting his lovely steps

he would go search for a toy, requested by our older son, he would search in 2-3-4 toy stores until he find it (I would NOT do that!)

he would sit next to him, watching him play or play with him

he would put him to bed at night, whispering prayers in his ears

he would do ANYTHING, literally anything that would make our sons happy

I’m so lucky and so happy I have him by my side

His heart is so big and so warm we all fit perfectly in there!

Fact 2- sary’s hair is only getting uglier

I know he’s born with little hair

But those are growing in such a strange way… he’s gonna need a haircut very soon!

Fact 3- that Yuppala/jumper/marche-bébé or whatever u name it, shown at the left corner of the photo,

That is a survivor!

It belonged to my 17-year old niece!

It has been used by her, her sister and borother when they visited Beirut, by Ghadi, by my neighbor’s son, and now by Sary

And still, as tough as ever!

Not a scratch and flawless!

I wonder now that Sary is done with it (he refuses to sit in it anymore!) what would be its next destination!

Embracing Technology

Couldn't resist taking this photo while imagining the same scene in few years (maybe more, or less if we lived in Japan)

Would he be shaking hands with a real Robot, living with us, helping me in households, while cooking soup and tuning on the washing machine?

On the other hand,

I really can’t stop buying books… at least children books

Though I promised myself that I will be buying less books.

(Whispering): two weeks ago I made online order of 10 books, yes but these are not available as e-books and not owned by anyone I know

Thus: I allowed and forgave myself of breaking my own promise!

The First Art Attack in our house!

Ghadi was playing at his room when he asked for some scissors and plain hard papers

I gave it ti him, wondering what’s he’s up to…

In few moments, he started to build what turned out to be a giant Ant (Happy me!)

He was so happy and so proud by this installation… I was never more excited by his creative action and we proudly took photos together…

Then a photo session of his Cars was inevitable!

Did I mention before that he takes his two favorite cars to bed when he sleeps?

Yes Francesco and Flash Macqueen sleep by his pillow every night…

How sweet and boy-ish!

11 months sary

Winter Strikes!

January is over, and hopefully the chilling temperatures will be away, at least to take a breath, to enjoy few sunrays and to get rid of those heavy woollen clothes.

Sary is not walking yet, probably due to the extra load of the multiple layers he is wearing every day!

By the way, he’ll be 11 months old in few days now!

A Happy gorgeous baby…
Enjoying life, laughing at every gesture and painting our life with the brightest colours during this cloudy winter!

A glimpse back to our trip to UAE

looking at the photo gallery of my phone I stumbled upon those pics!

the Perfect Traveler :)

enjoying the trip, making new friendships (with hostess of course!)

the relaxed mood at Jumana's 

Love it!

Escape to the coast...

A walk down the new Water front in Beirut

I like the old one with the corn vendors and the direct interaction with waterfront

but 

both are lovely

and will Always be my favorite destination 

to release stress and enjoy the warm sun rays!

TINTIN... Adventures that'd never fade!

A dear Gift from a dear Friend: Zari

Tintin? one of my Favorite characters EVER!

and an amazing memory from childhood!

my older brother had several volumes of Tintin adventures, it was in arabic and I used to read them when I was 8-9

that means more than 20 years ago! 

that means that my kids may have the chance to read them as well!

some things never die

and Tintin is the best proof of that!

 

Random thoughts at the end of January

It's been long time since I posted here.
It's Winter,
It's January...
and it's So cold
but I know this is no Excuse....

The start of this year was accompanied by many heart-pounding challenges.
and I had to take some important decisions related to my career
so this was taking  great time and huge effort.
and now all I can say is that I hope I did the right decision and what is best for me and my family.

January also brought running noses and swollen eyes at home!
I had to give Sary his first Antibiotics 2 weeks ago (this fact is depressing enough) and Ghadi recovered quickly from what seemed like a potential heavy flu (that wiped away the depression!)

meanwhile,
Ghadi seems like he's growing so fast,
it's just getting so fun talking to him, we are having long conversations now,
discussing stuff like why I didn't became an astronaut,
and he's a great brother too! he ENJOYS feeding sary
he does his Best to make him laugh!
they're so cute together!

Sary is standing by his own, holding the edge of a table or the sofa, he sits carefully (after falling several times hitting his head on the floor!)
he enjoys playing hide and seek now and hides his face with any piece of clothes waiting for you to search for him (I'm hiding my face, therefore I don't exist ! :)
he laughs very often and his tiny lower teeth are so cute, especially that there is no sign of any other tooth coming soon!

still one week to end this month, hope it'll bring more fun and joyful moment than the passing ones!

new look, winter look!

Ghadi asked me to shoot him and print the photo to show his teacher that HE IS sleeping alone (with me next to him), in fact in this photo, he was pretending to be asleep,

and another fact: he IS sleeping all by himself! 

he finishes playing, goes to his bed, and sleeps! waw!

my angel while asleep, I spotted him holding his toy, how cute!