Where do I begin?

A lot has been going on lately.

I discovered that H's personality is way different than the girls' such that he needs to be around people, hence why he savors going to the masjid with hubby every day.

Hubby bought him and S new watches. I had to contend hearing him tell me the time every single minute.

Just today he said to me, "A.M said there are five qalqalahs, da, ba, qaf, ja and..." and he couldn't remember one more.

I was pretty impressed that he caught on that pretty quick.

Today I told them to count their money as we were transferring their money from their money boxes to empty jars.

I had trouble with N, who seemed quite confused by the one dollar stack of coins I told her to make. While H counted his, and S hers, I sat with N and guided her throughout the counting. On paper, she does pretty well, but when it came to the real thing, she was lost.

Alhamdulillah though, we are done with school. N just has Math and Science to deal with. H just has Science and S naturally has Science, History, Math, Literature and Writing to finish. She however is working independently alhamdulillah.

I had to go through a non stress test last week because I told the doc the baby's movement was decreasing.

S came in with me and stayed for the whole half hour.

"So should the baby's heartbeat be high or low when s/he moves?" I asked her as we both looked at the machine blinking the baby's heart rate and graphing it.

"High," she answered.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because it's like it's running."

Well, high it was, up to 170 something. All was good alhamdulillah but I don't think S is going to come and stay with me for the upcoming non stress tests I have to undergo every week from now. Half an hour seemed to be too long for her as she kept reading the time off her watch to me.

They've been leaving me home alone lately, claiming that they like to pray at the masjid than at home.

"When the baby's here inshaallah, are you still going to leave me?" I asked them.

"No," they chorused.

"I want to play with the baby."

"I want the baby to play soccer with me." Guess who said that one?

Well, we'll see. When the baby wakes them up at night, we'll see if they still want to stay home with me and the baby.

Time flies by so quickly. My firstborn is almost 10 and I'm having inshaallah my fifth. At the same time that I will probably be dealing with pre pubescent issues with S, I will also be dealing with infant, and toddlerhood issues with the baby if everything goes well inshaallah. What a way to look forward to my parenting milestones. Subhanallah.