Azra is almost 3 years old and we decided that it was time she go to school. I am going everyday anyway and we want her to get used to going to school after the summer holidays, so we decided it was time that Azra start going to school 2 days a week. What a big thing for me. Of course it is always the mother who has to get the child ready, the child's bag, the child's breakfast, not to mention herself.... what happened to gender equity, well you could say that it doesn't actually exist, or at least not here! Anyway Azra is enjoying school very much. She loves the teacher, she talks about her friends and of course she loves going to school as we ride the bike, she's on the back watching the other people, or looking at the animals, the sea and whatever, or sometimes learning words from me like 'stupid' when there is someone who is walking on the bike track and then of course she repeats this word over and over to my chagrin. I realise that I have to keep my comments to myself about the people in our way! She has been going to school for 4 weeks now but the last week she got really ill, cold, fever, conjunctivitis, but we have been able to get her to heal naturally, but of course mum gets ill as well.
It is now one week later and I am able to write again! Azra is practising at school for the summer show which is on Friday. There are 5 more days of school left! Wow fantastic! Of course I will miss the kids though! I will post a photo here maybe of Azra performing! We also went to Bodrum a month ago to enjoy hot weather of course now here it is very hot!
It was Azra's 3rd birthday. Another year has passed. It is 2012. Another year of blindly finding ones way through parenting! What a year it has been. The major development is language of course. She is now pretty capable in both languages. I love it when she says things like 'If you like, I can get you some tissues, if you like' or 'My undies got wet, that is why I took them off, that is why'. I do wish though that she would sleep better at night. But I also think that even if I had a 1 night holiday that I would still wake up the 2 times (or more) that she wakes up now. Just think it has been another year of the depletion of my kidney energy. No wonder the last few months have been predominated with some level of illness for me. Anway way we had her birthday in the same park as we have done it before and this week her friend's 1st birthday party was held in the same place today. She had a great time at both parties! But today was a bit warmer (much) and she spent some of the time in the water as well! She was very cognizant of her birthday party this year and for 1 week beforehand was asking for an aeroplane cake. I was thinking how to do this and in the end I decided to just make a chocolate cherry cake, all organic. She loves chocolate and so I decided to compromise with her usual healthful eating seeing that it's her birthday, but also thought I would throw in many cherries as well so as to make it a little healthy. And I can't get her to eat fruit in it's normal form , except for icecream (yoghurt, milk and fruit and maybe a little cream and maybe even honey sometimes). Anyway as I got it out of the tin for some reason the cake decided to break up. I though oh no how can I use it now, maybe I have to buy a cake. But then though why not take the pieces and see if I can create an aeroplane. Well, she loved it and everyone else loved the cake itself! And she loved the cream that was used to write on the top as well!
