bismillah

Alhamdulillah, being blessed with two wonderful children
MashaAllah, it's such a rich experience watching them growing up
O Allah, make them qurrata a'yunina
wa ja'alna lil muttaqeena imama

Alhamdulillah, both Hajar and Adam are doing great. Both are growing up fast and learning pretty fast too.

Hajar is now 22 months old and will reach two by the end of May, inshaAllah. She cried less nowadays and has been more bubly and cheeky. She also drank less milk and asked for more foods.
She also knows to tell when she needs a diaper change. Last night, she put a soiled cloth into the basket. Ibu never taught her that, but perhaps Hajar quickly learned through observation. Hajar would also pick up trashes and soiled diapers and put them into the waste bin. She also picked up her bottles and put them into the sink in kitchen. Other than that, Hajar also loves to help cleaning up after meals by carrying the plates, bowls, or anything that she could carry to the kitchen and give them to ibu. MAshaAllah, she is such a nice girl, Alhamdulillah.

Hajar would also share her toys with Adam and would console Adam by giving Adam toys whenever he cried. Hajar would also rock the cradle when Adam was on the cradle and cried. Hajar is such a big help to ibu nowadays, Alhamdulillah.

More on Hajar's developments: Hajar was also getting better in role-playing with the toys. She would pretend to be a big sister to the toys, put the toys on a pillow, and then she would pretend putting the toys into sleep. She would say"tido-tido" and "ba-bam" while pointing and patting on the toys. MashaAllah that was very nice and cute!


Hajar also could hold a pen correctly and neatly between her fingers. She would scribble on papers and keep changing pages one after another. She loves 'writing'. Sometimes, she would 'explain' the contents of her art using her baby language, which is cute but hardly understandable.

As for Adam, he loves to do his baby talk as well by making the 'da-da' and 'di-di' sounds. Whenever he was upset, he would cry very loudly. He would scream to the top of his lungs whenever he did not get what he wanted i.e toys etc. We guess he is having a very strong character.

Adam loves to roll and roll around the living room since he was unable to crawl yet. He loves wires! and we have to watch Adam constantly when Adam was awake. He was a bit picky about toys lately and sometimes he refused to be on the jumper.

Alhamdulillah, Adam is now 20 3/4 pounds and Hajar is 30pounds. We went to the WIC last Tuesday(finally) and got registered and got the food checks. Alhamdulillah we've got free juices, eggs, milks, and cereal supplies for a month.