Young budding artist

Lately, Asma has taken great interest in painting. :)

Mini-lady Asma

Lately, Asma has taken keen interest in all sorts of lotions and perfumes - she loves to smell nice. One day, Mamma was feeling that Asma has been gone for quite a while and searched the home for her. What she encountered upon finding Asma, was worth of a photography session. She had managed to get to Mamma's cabinet of lotions and beautified herself all over with the content of one of the jars!!!

Asma enjoying building games

Recently, Asma has been interested in all kinds of blocks/building games. She can keep herself busy on the carpet for quite a while, constructing her creations.

 

Cleaning the peas

Winter is the season of fresh green peas in Karachi. We buy them in kgs, clean them and freeze them for use in the summer months. The cleaning is usually a group type of activity, although not a very popular one, since sitting for prolonged periods of time at one place is considered as punishment by kids. :) This year, Asma (not 2 yrs yet) has also joined the peas-cleaning-team and with very serious efforts, does her best to help us. Amazingly, her tiny fingers are doing excellent work. :)

 

Allah (swt) made us all

Asma doesn't stop to surprise us with the wonderful intelligence Allah (swt) has granted her at her young baby age. Truly, Allah (swt) is our Creator and bestows on us a natural yearning to follow Him.

Yesterday, Mamma was making tea in the kitchen. We do have now one of our uncles (Moin Chacha) living with us in a separate portion of our home, which we access through a separate door. When tea was ready, Mamma said: "Let's give tea to Moin Chacha." On hearing this, Asma disappeared from kitchen and came back carrying from room Mamma's big Chadar, which she uses for covering herself, when passing on something to Moin Chacha. We were so taken aback by her intelligence! Asma is just 1,7 yrs old but already has understood the basic guidelines Muslim ladies have for covering themselves. :)

Likewise, it is enough for us to say to Asma: "Let's pray," and she goes off bringing to us the prayer mats and the prayer clothes Mamma uses when she prays. Asma herself also loves to do her 'prayers' along with us, following us in every position as we do it. And very often, she loves to do some mischief as well - to disturb us in a thousand creative ways, when we do our prayers. :)

 

The shoes age

Yep, Asma has reached "the shoes age" - that bugging curiosity of fitting her little feet into any shoes she spots around the home.

Little gardener

As Asma's getting more and more mobile, she's also becoming increasingly interested in plants and all other things out there behind the door of the home. Hafsa was spraying the leaves of plants in our car-porch - Asma insisted she needed to have a try of it.

Asma is walking

After quite a few months spent on all four, Asma finally has decided to start on two. We've been enjoying her crawling around the home a lot, as Uzair and Hafsa did not crawl at all. Here we see, what difference a walker makes for a child: Uzair and Hafsa were using a walker, did not crawl at all and learned to walk just before they turned one year. Asma has never been in walker. She crawled for good five months and now, at her 14 months of age, is making her first independent attempts at walking. Well, I guess the natural way of doing things is good for the child, as s/he can get started on every new task whenver s/he is ready for it, Alhamdulillah.