Roqaya is 6 months old

She is actually 6 months and one week but she had her 6 month check up today so I thought I would share her stats.  She now weighs 17 lbs 10 oz. and I definitely feel that in my back when carrying around her car seat...speaking of which her new car seat is in the mail, she is moving up to the big car seat and out of her carrier because she's getting too big for it.  She is 28.1 inches, which explains why she doesn't fit in her car seat anymore, her feet are dangling over the edge.  She is in the 75% for both height and weight.  She got some shots which she really didn't like but she stopped crying once she saw baba and Karim in the waiting room.  She started eating her big girl food, she really likes to get her mouth full and covered and then blow raspberries.  She also really enjoys sharing an apple with Karim, she can't bite it but just sucking on it makes her happy, maybe she just wants to be like Karim.  She's getting better at crawling, she still hasn't made it up on hands and knees, she mostly does an army crawl, but she's gotten more efficient with that since last week..  She doesn't have any teeth yet, but that's totally fine with me, she can hold off on those for as long as she wants.

Karim will be 2 1/2 at the end of March.  He's still not potty trained, he just doesn't seem to mind.  I've been reading about the training in one day technique, it's a little intense but it may be worth a shot.  He stayed in the waiting room with baba this time so I didn't get a chance to weigh and measure him, but he's growing nicely.  He really likes playing with his soccer ball lately, he's always going through little phases of things he likes so we'll see how long this one lasts, for now it's fun.

Well, that's pretty much all for now, we'll have another check up in 3 months...

 

You Fell Over

Roqaya has been practicing her sitting up skills, she's getting pretty good but every once and a while she falls over, so sometimes I say to her 'oh you fell over :('.  Well, Karim picked up on this so if he sees her sitting nicely he goes to her, pushes her over and says, 'oh you fell over'.  I try not to laugh so as to not reinforce this but it's just too funny, Roqaya doesn't seem to mind either, she usually laughs at him too.

Having Fun

Here are some recent photos, I haven't put any up in a while.  I'm much better at keeping my Picasa album up to date so here is the link if anyone wants to check that out, there are more pictures and several videos http://picasaweb.google.com/ceciliaummkarim

Just over the last month or so Karim has really made some changes, his vocabulary has grown exponentially and it seems like he learns new words every day.  He really loves letters and numbers; he almost knows the whole alphabet but calls g q, he calls x huck and w double huck.  His favorite thing in the whole world is watching Jeopardy! and with his recent love of letters, he's gotten into Wheel of Fortune, he likes to call out the letters.  We're trying to get him ready for preschool in the fall so it's really good that he's so receptive to learning these kinds of things.  

Roqaya is about 5 1/2 months and she's just great.  She's always in a good mood except when we're all eating food in front of her.  I guess it's time to start her on solids, she gets really grumpy when all she gets for dinner is milk.  She loves playing with Karim and when ever she sees him she starts laughing and trying to get his attention.  I will be back in a couple weeks to give her 6 month update...until then, enjoy the pictures.  The first picture shows Karim surfing Youtube, he likes watching certain songs and of course Jeopardy videos.  Roqaya likes to stand next to him, so I have to stabalize her so she doesn't topple over.  Karim has been really into the naked movement lately, so you'll see in the picture that I had to start putting his pj's on backward so he can't get to the zipper and strip down :)

Here We Go Again

Just when we thought things couldn't get any more chaotic around here...Roqaya rolled back to front for the fist time last night and is now semi-mobile.  From the looks of it we don't have long before she is crawling.  She has already figured out how to move a good distance between rolling and creeping on her belly.  It's a good thing we have a sucken living room so she can't get too far yet.  We will really need to get our creative juices flowing to figure out how to keep her contained in a safe area especially since Karim is anit-safety gate and he's always tearing them down.

kaka

We have been seriously potty training for almost 2 weeks and although Karim still goes in his pants and on the floor sometimes he does really well with the potty and today he made his first kaka! This is great for me because I really don't like cleaning poo.  He got a piece of chocolate and he got to flush his creation and say 'bye bye kaka'.  I will just hope that all the excitement reminds him to go in the potty next time too.  

I will spare the pictures for this event :)

4 Months Already!?

Today we went for Roqaya's 4 month check-up. Everything went well, she is developing fantastically and even the hemangioma on her hand has begun to regress. The Dr. found that her neck muscles are stronger on one side than the other so we need to do some tummy time activities to help build up the other side so her head is more balanced. She now weighs 15 1/2 pounds and is 28 inches long. I also weighed Karim and he is 31 pounds. He spent the visit with the receptionist because she had more intersting things to play with than what the exam room had to offer. I will add some updated pictures also...

Sweet Dreams

I went to check on Karim and Roqaya this morning and this is what I found :) Karim started on the other side of the bed but made his way over so he could cuddle Roqaya. They both slept for another hour after this so I was able to drink my coffee in peace and I finished all my homework.