Book of the Week :: Dimity Duck

As I told earlier, we are sticking to a THEME and reading along with Rainbow. The theme for the week is FRIENDS, hence we chose Dimity Duck by Jane Yolen.

It is all about... a duck Dimity and a day in her life. There begins a day as

Dimity Duck Waddles,

she toddles out of bed...

Wordless Wednesday :: The Studious Girl!

She falls into slumber very Quickly...

She was actually Scribbling.. but sleep conquered her!

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Sick child, Mom and Dad!
That's it. That was everything happened in last week. We all three fell ill one after another.  J brought it from Masjid, Pappa's clinging girl BOUGHT it and GIFTED to mom. It was such an ordeal, all three falling ill together in Ramadan! It was Liya's first ever fever session and was sort of scary. She went up to a temperature of 105 F! Tylenol did not work anymore. We took her to Doc and he asked to give ibuprofen and Tylenol alternatively and confirmed it is a viral fever and might take some days to come down.

ABC's of Liya

Ashoo- that's how she expresses amazement.
Book - only thing to lure her, even if cranky.
Curious- that's her nature!
Diya- Her only cousin sis, she calls Diya-tha!
Elephant- She loves to see it in a book but afraid to see live...lol!
Fish - her fav food!
Grapes- Her most recent craving!
Hush little baby... she rhymes it very often!

Listening to Somalia...

That was a truly heart-touching fundraising program, the one I attended yesterday right there in the banquet hall of ISNF, which was conducted as a part of collecting Zakat shares towards the cause of relief activities in Somalia. Former Prime Minister of Somalia was explaining the harrowing tales from Somalia and the dreadful situation he has been in while he was holding the PM chair. Even though he personally traveled/begged to every country on the face of earth, to help them come out of the 'hunger', NO one except UAE listened to them. He concluded his speech saying "the condition right there is beyond your imagination and we need to act immediately".

How ironical it is, myself sitting near a table which was getting filled with multiple delicious items to break my fast as it was almost the time up for iftar and my little girl sitting on the next chair,  munching her evening fruit snacks and sipping her banana-milk shake, while the horrifying silhouettes of starving children in Somalia were flashing through the screen!

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