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Friday, November 2, 2012

3 Months & 21 Months

Okay, so Sami turned 3 months old last week, but because of hurricane Sandy we didn't have any power or heat so we had to leave our home and go to a friend's house, so I didn't get a chance to take his 3 months pictures yet. But we are now back home, and we have power, thank God, could have been much worse, the wind was blowing SO HARD it was very scary, we thought the windows were going to break and fly all over the room! we slept all in the same bed, the lightning and rain made it so scary. We went to my friend's house the next day, she and her husband and 13 months old son live in Brooklyn, a part of the city that wasn't affected by the hurricane, usually it takes us about 2 hours to get to her house, it took us 7 hours that day, first all the gas station were closed as there was no power or gas! so we ended up running out of gas and waiting for help, then we tried 3 different ways to get to manhattan but Jersey was affected hard by the hurricane so most roads and highways leading to NYC were closed, finally we found a way to manhattan, and that was the creepy part, lower manhattan and midtown looked INSANE, there are no lights at all, no traffic lights, no lights in the buildings, streets, nothing, it looked like that show revolution, or any "end of days" movie, it was the scariest thing, even Jamel was scared driving down the streets with the kids, but thank God once we crossed the bridge to brooklyn it was much better. The hurricane affected a lot of people, I hope the recovery is fast inshaa Allah.

We stayed at my friend's house that night and came home the following day, we had a lot of fun, except for Loui acting very strange and cranky all day, I think he missed home.

Sami is a sweet little boy, he smiles and laughs a lot, cries when he is hungry or sleepy, but most of the time he is a good baby :-) I love him so much, I love both my little boys, and they love each other, I am so thankful to have them.

We will go to Egypt the beginning of next year Inshaa Allah for my family to see the Loui as they miss him a lot, and also to meet Sami, no one met him yet but my mother, I am very excited and can't wait till we go. We always have a blast when we go, I'll work on Simsim's passport this weekend isA. Also I need to do a lot with my business and it has to be done from there.

Weight watchers is awesome as always, I'm in love with it, I lost 20.4 pounds in 9 weeks now, and since I had sami (more than three months) I've lost a total of 36.4 pounds. I feel great, I work out 5 days a week, 45 minutes a day, burning 300-400 calories a day. I love it, I have more energy and feel much better about how I look, I have a long way still but it's fun...

My birthday was last Friday, Jamel planned with a close friend of mine to come and take me out to a nice dinner while he watches the kids :-) it was my first time leaving them with Jamel, it was great, we went to Emeril Lagasse's restaurant about 45 minutes from here, dinner was great, it was fun to hang out with her without the boys, although I missed them, it was nice to just enjoy my food without worrying about simsim crying or Loui jumping out of his seat and climbing the table... I turned 29 years old, I plan to enjoy my last year of my 20's to the max, I am terrified of turning 30! It sounds so old and, what's the word? MATURE.

I will update with simsim's 3 months old pics when I take them.

 Me at 219 pounds (on my 29th birthday)
 Bubu and his friend Nono :-)
Simsim @12 weeks old