nusayba read her first 3 words on thursday, march 26th! it was so exciting--for me of course:) we've been playing with letters and words for a while, but to see her grasp the concept and try to pronounce was so beautiful:)
the words were "blue", "red", and "green". since then she's been trying to pronounce words like cat, hat, hot, etc... but what's really amazing is that when she sees any words (on the diaper box, street signs, even the word "toyota" on our van) she now realizes that the letters makeup a word and the word can be read so she stops and takes a shot at it.
'Alaa is now on my case that i should be teaching her Arabic, but i have a feeling that once she really grasps the concept it'll be much easier to teach her to read in Arabic. It's not like English..like, why would there be a "k" in the word nife? :)
alhamdulillah, she was a lot braver than I thought she would be. They even ducked her face under water twice (after asking her to make a "bubble face") and she didn't cry or panic!
on the way home she exclaimed "a'jabatni alsibaha katheeran!" (I enjoyed swimming very much) :)
Voala!
First we soaked the wheat grass for about 12 hours
A layer of sand to absorb any extra water
then the dirt...
and finally the wheat seeds
we water the seeds twice everyday. once in the morning and once at night and placed them in a dark/shady area covered with plastic wrap until they sprouted
this is what they look like in about two days. we then removed the covering and placed them on the windowsill and continued watering twice daily
I find the roots amazing!
they grew very fast and the girls could notice the difference every day
say cheese:)
look at those roots! they've extended all the way to the bottom of the sand...subhana Allah, amazing!
we gave the grass its first haircut and...
made a delicious green smoothy with it!
We used the wheat grass, avocado, banana and apple juice...no, we didn't put any of the vaseline in there:)
