Pregnancy

I am currently 21 weeks and 1 day.

We had our anatomy scan yesterday and I swear the realization that I was pregnant finally hit me like a ton of bricks. 

It was also the day we found out the gender. 

I was nervous all morning, a good nervous. In the exam room, I was jittery and could feel my heart racing. 

Once I saw the baby on the screen, with its hands moving, I became so emotional. Tahmeed and Noah were also there, and we both wanted to cry. This was it, another beautiful baby Allah has blessed us with. I couldn't believe it. I've been so busy with life in general to think about this baby, plus baby has been pretty quiet, only starting to kick very recently. 

The heart was pumping and I saw all the beautiful ventricles. Today was also the first time I heard my baby's heartbeat. The spine, the brain, the stomach, all beautiful and intact. All together, a 12 ounce baby. "Baby is healthy and so cooperative, I have a feeling this will be the best one I've done today!" said the sonographer. Alhamdulillah. 

Alhamdulillah, what a blessing! 

18 more weeks and we will meet our new love inshallah. 

And later on today, we're doing a gender reveal to our family. I'm going to make a cake with the batter being the color of the baby's gender. It'll be covered with white butter cream so in order to find out, you have to cut the cake. 

And the batter will be pink becauseeeeeeeeeee it's a girl. Alhamdulillah. 

Mecca Live

Today, an app named snapchat, listened to requests from its followers and added the city "Mecca" to its live feed. 

This app allows users to snap pictures and little videos. 

Tonight is also the 27th night of Ramadan 2015, "The Night of Power", the night where the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammed Sallahu Alaihi Wasalam. Great timing on snapchats end. 

Watching it all got me so emotional. Its all less than 400 seconds of clips and pics. It took me back to the time we went for Umrah in March, to the time I saw the Kaaba for the first time. I will never ever forget that special moment. Subhanallah and Alhamdulillah for being given the opportunity.

It's just an amazing moment in history. This app is used by millions of people and everyone will get a glimpse of what Islam has to offer inshallah. 

Here are a few snaps I screen shot

     Getting free Iftar ready for everyone 

 

Look at all those people! 14 million currently in Mecca, Subhanallah!

I realized I need to document more historic moments on this blog. Many changes are happening in the world. I promise to try. 

 

Bad habits.

Noah was never one to chew on his hands or feet. He did go through the chewing hand phase at around 3 months of age but that ended real quick. I wasn't complaining! I didn't have to deal with saliva drenched smelly hands and feet!

Or so I thought...

A few weeks ago, he started putting his fingers and hands in his mouth and would also just chew on his forearms!!

What also happened a few weeks ago? DAYCARE.

Daycare.

New habit.

New habit from day care?!

This is the only correlation I have come up with! He must have definitely caught on from the other kids. It's disgusting. It's slimy. His face, hands and arm smell like spit anddddddd he thinks it's so hilarious when I move his hand away and say, "stop."

Sigh.

I guess there's nothing I can really do except let him enjoy this phase. Babies will be babies (...except he's really a toddler and is growing up so fast but omgggg, I can't stop calling him a baby!)

This will end soon. I just have to wait it out.

Daycare: End of Week 3

Just dropped Noah off and he did not cry one bit!! Alhamdulillah! He even came up to me babbling and then walked away. All smiles and laughter. I am so happy! Alhamdulillah. 

I'm hoping this three day weekend doesn't bring us back to square one. *fingers crossed*