Saturday, December 5, 2015

My Brother, Can be This kind of Uncle, Oh Never Imagined



I remember the first time my younger brother saw my newborn daughter. "She looks like a little alien," he said, afraid to hold her or get too close.
Over the coming days I saw him sneaking peeks at the mysterious, mini "creature" who had come into our lives. He seemed intrigued but still watched her from a distance. He'd never been around a newborn baby before, even though he was in his late twenties. I wondered if he would ever warm up to the idea of being an uncle.
As my daughter grew, so did my brother's bravery. Soon he ventured into engaging with her. In fact, when my baby's uncle would come for a visit, it seemed he only had eyes for her, spending hours playing on the floor with her, doing magic tricks and making her laugh. Frequent visits from my daughter's uncle were full of games of hide-and-seek, coloring sessions and piano lessons. Gifts from my brother were touchingly thoughtful. His calls were always to ask how his favorite girl was doing. Despite the distance, he continued to be a support to our family.
I thought my heart might burst as I witnessed their bond develop over time. It was clear my daughter was quite taken with her funny, charismatic, attentive uncle. And he was head over heels in love with her, even if he didn't exactly say it.

One day my wife and I were talking about who we would want to take care of our kids if something happened to us. I began to think about how my brother, a reserved, composed man, normally goofs around with my girls, just to get them to laugh or smile, and how that has warmed my heart. But it was also obvious I could trust my brother to do so much more than entertain my dinner, during dinner.
I knew in my heart the person I would want to raise our girls, but I wasn't sure how my wife would feel. Did she see the same thing I did when I looked at my brother's relationship with our daughter?
“What about your brother?" she asked, without me having to say a word. I exhaled. Good. We were completely on the same page.
It's amazing how clear it is to us that my brother, who has no children of his own, would always do the right thing when it came to raising our daughters if we were unable to. Had you asked me that first day when my brother met my firstborn, if I would ever consider entrusting him with such a huge responsibility, I would have laughed! But the blossoming of his relationship with my family has been the most unexpected, wonderful journey to witness


Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Important Milestones of Aiza Khan


Aiza Khan at the age of 10th Months assures her Parents with certain things, that she is normal and growing up. She plays, learns, speaks, and acts offers important clues about her development, though these Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotionally, Aiza is no way afraid of strangers, but rather welcome everyone with her deep heart smile, She welcomes strange people with moving her small hands horizontally and vertically. She is too much familiar with family members and keeps on looking each of them, until they look back to them with a responsive smile or hello. She is open to every toy and has got no discriminative thoughts to them.  However her lingual/Communicational skills are weak, but still she understands No, she makes a lot of different sounds like Didiiiii, Mamamma, Babababab, sometime she makes a beautiful copy of gesture also she point at things. Moreover; Aiza Cognitive (learning, thinking, problem-solving) skills are a bit developed as compare to other observational skills. She watches the path of something as it falls, Looks for things he sees you hide, Plays peek-a-boo, Puts things in her mouth, Moves things smoothly from one hand to the other, Picks up things like cereal o’s between thumb and index finger, that’s what I am really happy for. Her physical growth is encouraging, as she stands up, holding on, can get into sitting position, sits with out support, pulls to stand and crawls.

 God bless Her, She is the Only Hope of my Life

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

She Grows Up

Just popping in to say hello! I am due for our 9 months update and struggling to find time to write it. So I’m going to have to make this one much more brief than usual, but I guess it’s better than nothing!

Baby talk:

Baby talk is in full force. She says dada, mama, yaya, nana, baba, etc. on the regular. It’s super cute! She calls, everyone by dada right now…haha…but occasionally she’ll say mama when looking at me (or when crying)! She loves to scream at the top of her lungs when she’s tired. I call it a protest cry! It sounds like AHHHHHHHHHH, AHHHHH, AHHHH. When she’s happy after a good sleep, she “sing-songs” her baby talk. Melts my heart every single time. I said to my Wife, it’ll be so sad when she doesn’t talk like this anymore! It’s such a cute stage. She still loves to growl. She growls when she’s being a “stinker” and wants to play or be silly. We just never know what sound is going to come out of her mouth! She is quite vocal! She still likes making “poooooof” noises by blowing air through her lips. Her personality is emerging more and more these days. She is very active, always wants to be moving, and dislikes being held more and more. She stopped going in carriers and wraps months ago because she just squirms and wants out. She is happiest when she is on the move and playing. Loves going out and seeing people so we try to do that lots! She is also very curious, observant, playful, and easy-going (with a fierce stubborn streak). When she wants something, she wants something. Sounds just like her mama!

Waving:
She LOVES to wave. At us, the cat, strangers. It’s maybe the cutest thing I’ve ever seen!!! Melts my heart.

Sleep:

She has slept through the night about 8-9 times over the past 9 months (but who’s counting?? haha…My wife!). Before 8 months hit, Aiza used to go down to bed quite easily. The past couple months putting her down at night has been a struggle. She will often fuss or cry and refuse to go to sleep. Sometimes it’s a good 1-2 hours before she is finally asleep. She seems to be going through big developmental leaps right now so I’m sure those don’t help. We have never sleep trained and I hope things improve naturally. Still taking 2 naps a day. Lately she has been refusing naps once in a while which she never did before. It’s still hard to read her sometimes. Is she sleepy or not? Overtired or not tired enough to nap? I would’ve thought we’d have it down by now, but every week it changes! We take it day by day. When she does nap they tend to be 1 hour each. Once in a while we’ll get 2 hours out of her, but 1 hour is the norm.

Teeth:

Two teeth yet. I can’t believe it. I think we have finally given up saying, “I think she is going to cut her third and fourth tooth any day now.” Maybe she will be one of those late bloomers that cuts a bunch of teeth at 11 months?

On the move:

As I mentioned in the 8 month update, she is crawling. She’s quite fast now and we have to watch her like a hawk! She’s into every thaaaaang!!! We did some baby-proofing last month, but there will be more to come.


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