First words

Bilal's new words

2009-06-26T01:29:00.000-07:00

Now this bilal is unique all my grandkids are cute and all babies are sweet ...but this guy has a personality :)
His new words :

maheeha=referring to the voice of the donkey(heehaw)he heard it on a puzzle and ever since he calls the donkey maheeha...the problem is that last week in our family gathering he went to every single person saying maheeha to him...(did he mean it??)

Here's a photo of him wearing my reading glasses :)

Kids grow fast mashallah!!

2008-10-22T20:23:00.000-07:00

Kids are growing and I'm not updating as fast well,here is the latest scoop,my grandkids decided to cook together even the little one joined in,soon I will be giving them cooking classes lol!!

Now this little rascal is soooooo happy that at last he could join in all the older kids have been doing for the past year while he was confined to his crib,and now ,gleefully he participates in every action...he may fall and get hurt but that is the price of growing up and learning :)

Hmmm reading or writing??

2008-05-24T00:35:00.001-07:00

Well this little fella found this notebook and sat there following the pattern on the cover,he was so deeply immersed doing it he didn't even notice the camera!!

Youwaswisu

2008-05-04T20:11:00.000-07:00

Aboudy sleeping peacefully with his little tiger :)

Aboudy (and Azouz)are learning Quran now and in one of the suras there is this word youwaswisu...and Aboudy has this funny way in pronouncing it,every time he says it he says it slowly and deliberatly,and wow is it funny coming from his mouth.
So his dad asked him to repeat it and he goes (you-wass-wissou)in a musical way and very slow and when we laugh he says it again.
Then he started looking for his aunt and saying again and again(you-wass-wissou)with a kind of th instead of the ss...but ever so funny!!
This guy is a character really his father tells him to stop talking so he simply talks to me or his mom,well he stopped talking to his dad...smart one that boy!!Mark my words!!

Bilal

2008-03-21T22:54:00.000-07:00

Now this little cutie pie has grown into this wise guy...his personality ia being formed now and he is ever so cute mashallah !!

.....and these three have formed a bandit of l'il rascals since they were trying to get our attention after the lights were all on Bulbul !!

Swinging

2007-12-16T14:39:00.000-08:00

We went out to the yard the four of us,my grandchildren and I,and we only have two swings and a slide...Aboudy pushed Hala and held to the smaller swing and of course Azouz ran to the big one leaving poor Hala out.So I told her to slide until her turn came.......

Aboudy talking back

2007-12-03T21:38:00.000-08:00

The reason I stopped writing in this blog is there are no more first words from the three and I am waiting for the new baby Bulbul,who is now mahsallah 4 months to start talking and then i would start writing but Aboudy decided to make me write again!!
He is using all of his first sentences against us...meaning he is always telling us off!!
Aboudy is a funny character...
you know he is a wise guy .....

Don't say=atiguli
Don't do=atisawi
Don't,don't ...he is being told off so much that he thinks that is the right way to speak..
Some nights ago he went right to his dad and said to him...inta galeel adab(literally it means you are bad mannered)!!

2007-11-12T23:26:00.000-08:00

New baby

2007-11-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

This new baby caused a landslide overhere,as usual the little ones trying to act like older people suddenly started acting babyish,since this baby came in to steal the spotlights from them!!Lady Hala decided that if her cousins wanted to play or talk to her baby brother ,they had to take her highness's permission!!
عندما وصل هذا الصغير تراجع الأطفال عن التطور إلى الأمام وأصبحوا هم الذين يقلدونه نظرا للثناء الذي كانوا يسمعونه منا على الصغير!! وبدلا من سماع كلمات جديدة أصبحنا نسمع ونرى تقليد للنونو وبمنافسة أيضا أخته النائمة إلى جانبه عندما يأتون لزيارتنا إذا أرادو أبناء خالها اللعب مع أخيها تطلب منهم أن يستأذنوها هي أولا

In Eid the children were so happy to watch this train gift from their uncleand baby was in my lap and staretd kicking enthusiastically wanting to go down to the ground to enjoy the new toy with them...and down I set him right in the middle of the commotion ,and boy was he happy!!
في العيد أحضر لهم عمهم/خالهم هدية قطار وفيما كان الأطفال يستمتعون بمشاهدة حركات هذا القطار العجيب ظل النونو بلال يرفس ويتحرك معلنا رغبته الجامحة في الاشتراك مع الأطفال الآخرين لمشاهدة اللعبة الجدبدة وفعلا أجيب طلبه وأنزل إلى مستواهم ليستمتع معهم

Aboudy

2007-05-27T21:22:00.001-07:00

Abdullah is the name,now this is a unique taurus,I mean he really is so taurus-like,very adamant to do what is in his mind,he can't be bullied around this boy,I tell you!!
Cutie pie at the same time,he is child number three in my granny-household and he is boy number two so the poor thing was left aside and nobody was really impressed with him for a while except my younger daughter who bonded with him right away and kept showing us the good traits this baby had.

-This fella's first words was the word UT! and it means uss,we use the word when we say shut up,so this little fella was actually telling ua all to shut up!!Not only that but the little rascal will come up to me and hit me if I didn't understand his "UT"!!
-His next word was bye-beta actually when they were going home is saying good-bye I am going home(beta=bayt=house)

Haloula(Hala)

2007-05-24T10:34:00.000-07:00

Now Hala is another story,each of my grandchildren has her/his own beautiful unique vocabulary,she kept saying "aban" and we puzzled over this word for so many months,until one day I caught her trying to open my glass cabinet so I said:" never never do this it will break!! "
When i said never....I realised that was the word she has been saying all these months she was trying to say "never" in arabic its "abadan".
Her other word was "namuna",now that was in referral to her bottle and her mom's milk,and one day she excitedly told her dad that when she grows up she will have her own "namuna".
When she grew older,she started to use the pencil and she would ask her mom if she could "aglum"?????
pencil=galam
kitab=book
We say aktub meaning I write...now that doesn't make sense since aglum means to write??right??
until now she is (2 years and 8 months)she is always asking if she could "aglum",all our trials to make her understand OUR logic that "aktub" means to write have gone in vain.

هالة لها كلماتها المميزو أيضا منذ صغرها وهي تقول لوالدتها "أبن" ولم نكن نعرف معنى الكلمة وتكررها ونحن لانجد لهامرادف في اللغة العربية وذات يوم حاولت أن تعبث بدولاب الفناجين وأدوات الشاي فقلت لها لاتلعبي هنا أبدا لأن كل شيء هنا زجاج وقد ينكسر....في تلك اللحظة أدركت أنها هي الكلمة التي ترمز بها بـ "أبن".......ومرة أخرى كانت تقول لناأنها تريد أن تقلم وأصرت وقالت جدة أبغى أقلم ولم يكن بوسعي فهمها إلى أن حضرت والدتها وترجمة لي فالبنت تريد أن ترسم أو تكتب ولكن بالقلم بمن البديهي أنها تريد أن تقلم بالقلم ولاتريد أن "تكتب"لأن هذا الشيء لايتمشى مع المنطق فهي عندما تريد أن تقرأ....تكتب لأنه في الكتاب وحين تكتب فيه تقلم بالقلم؟؟؟

I'm a big boy now

2007-05-21T00:57:00.000-07:00

This is Azouz in his first thoub ,that was the smallest size I could find,but doesn't he just look smart!?
At this age he started using the word "NO" so much that it became irritating to his parents,and it seems just the natural thing to say...I mean come on look he is a MAN and you come in and start bossing him around telling him what to do and what not to do...LOL

هذا عزوز وهو يرتدي أول ثوب ولم أجد مقاس أصغر من ذلك في هذه المرحلة بدء يستعمل الكلمة الشهيرة لا وكان يقولها بكل ثقة...طبع من حقه ألم يصل إلى مرحلة الرجولة؟؟وتريدون الآن أن تملوا عليه أوامركم

Now there is a reason for starting to feel a need to say ((no)),I'm the older now,and I will be in charge of somebody else so what less than having the right to say :NO!!
Azouz take care of your brother ,Azouz stay next to him,if he cries call me,give him your toys he is younger....etc

أصبح كبير فعلا لأنه مسؤول...نعم أصبح مسؤولا عن أخيه الأصغر...عزوز أنتبه لأخوك....عزوز ناديني إذا بكى....عزوز أعطه ألعابك فهو اصغر منك

Azouz

2007-05-20T06:03:00.000-07:00

My oldest grandson is Azouz, short for Abdul-Aziz,now he has a bunch of real cute words,so you will actually be learning some arabic as I translate all this babytalk to you:

bonina=ballona=balloon

gamana=galam=pencil or pen

kali kali=burtuqaly=orange,I could never really figure out why he always said it twice,and the funny thing is all the younger ones adopted this word and its being used until now!!

keeba=kabeer=big

gameboony=gameboy

baro=mario

abbous=asfour=bird

عزوز (عبد العزيز)هو أكبر أحفادي ولديه
مجموعته الفريدة من التعابير المميزة
بونينا=بالونة
قمنا=قلم
كالي كالي=برتقالي
كيبا=كبير
قيمبوني= قيم بوي
بارو= ماريو
عبوص=عصفور

First words

2007-05-20T05:45:00.000-07:00

Like all children my grandchildren have developed their own unique set of words,each according to their own judgement.So I have decided to register these timeless ,special ways in expressing to us what they meant.
مثل جميع الأطفال لدى أحفادي مجموعة من الكلمات الخاصة لتي عبروا بها عن أنفسهم في محاولاتهم الأولى في التعبير بالكلام وأحببت أن أسجلها في المدونة حتى يجدوها عندما يكبروا إذ أننا في أيام تربيتنا لأبنائنا لم يكم لدينا الوقت الكافي لتسجيل كل تعبير وكلمة جديدة وإن كنا نذكرهم بأغربها من حين لآخر