Tiny But Mighty

     Since I have not kept up on my blog regularly in such a long time I thought I would use this opportunity to introduce everybody to my daughter Imaan. She's 15 months old right now, and I'm using her favorite TV show "Ni Hao, Kai-Lan" to keep her busy so I can hopefully finish this post. We'll see what happens....
     Imaan was tiny but mighty from birth. She was only 5.4 lbs (2.4 kilos) at birth and now she is only 17.8 (8.1). I remember being shocked at her size when I first saw her in the delivery room. But she was a strong girl from the beginning. The nurses were impressed with how alert she was right away, a lot of C- section babies are groggy for a while because they have it easy, just getting taken out rather then going through all the pressures of going through a natural delivery.

Here she is with her Daddy when she was a few months old.

     The thing with Imaan is, she's a very picky eater. She doesn't like most foods I give her. Her Doctor told me to give her ice cream every day to put a little more fat on her bones. Sounds like a dream diet right? Imaan won't eat ice cream, I think it's too cold for her, she just spits it out and yells at me when I try to feed it to her. She likes yogurt, oatmeal with fruit, and pediasure. Shahid is always trying to get her to eat rice, she will take a few bites and that's it, shes done. I go through periods of time when I get really worried and wonder if there is something wrong with her, but then again her health is excellent, and developmentally she has always been ahead of other babies in her age group.
     Imaan stood up on her own at seven months old, and was fully walking at eight months. It looked really funny to see this tiny girl wandering around the house! And she loved to walk, she would just march all over the house, almost never sitting still. Of course she was burning off precious calories the whole time. I remember when she was ten months old and we took her for her first pair of Stride Rite shoes, Imaan was running all over the shoe store and customers were gawking at her, shocked to see such a tiny baby running around.
     Imaan is also very smart. Shahid told me when she was first born that he could tell she was very intelligent because of her ears. I had never heard anyone say that before but now I think maybe it is something Pakistani and Indian people say because a few Indian friends of mine have made the same comment. She loves books, if I'm not reading to her she will just sit on the floor with a book and flip through it. And if you sit with her she will point at the pictures and tell you about them in her baby language. She is not speaking a lot of real words yet, just lots of baby talk. I speak to her in English and Shahid speaks to her in Urdu, and she understands both of us perfectly. We're curious to see what happens next with her language skills, it is our hope that she will speak both languages equally well.
     Well, I think that's enough "proud parent posting" for now. I don't want to be one of those moms who just blabs about her kid all day. :) Although I'm sure in the future I'll have some funny stories about Imaan and her adventures. Take care guys.