Thursday, November 22, 2007

ihtifal countdown

azraf is having his ihtifal this saturday.

he's been practising hard, he has to do hafazan. the first time he was given alhumazah. but he kept forgetting the name of the surah and also the beginning, and he kept asking the teachers "teacher, I want to change surah." and I think he just blanked out on this since it was actually given after an "audition." so now he has an-nashrah. which he is also so worried lest he forgets he's asking to go first.

he also is doing a magic show which papa taught. teacher lin taught him this script "do you want to see this again?" and during practise, when teacher lin prompted him to say that, instead of repeating after her, he's reply "don't want" and went off the stage!

that little boy

is not so little anymore....

najwan is just growing by leaps and bounds.

last night, as syakira, amjad and hania were playing batu seremban (five stones), he thought his kak ngah was cheating, and he chanted out "ayooo, kak ngah dosa!"

he's getting bits and pieces of the alfatihah. he'll recite that when he is praying (ajen's style), and if you listen closely, there are legible phrases here and there. he now has the doa before eating and doa before sleeping down pat. ok, so maybe we *all* need to remember to recite the doa after eating too.

he's claiming ownership to abang de's bicycle, now that he can ride it. he's not cycling the full circle yet, but enough to get him moving pretty quickly on the bike.

but he's also learning pretty quickly that the easiest way to get his way is to bawl out! ouch!!!!

oh, and he has times he refuses to wear the diaper, but doesn't quite remember to hold his pee until he gets to the toilet, much to the chagrin of the older ones who have to wipe the floor! so we're not being quite as supportive as we might be to his initiative to go diaperless :).