long time no blog

nobody's reading this anyway, so why bother? but oh well. musa is fidgeting in his sleep in the fisher-price swing where i plunk him so much (only way to get anything done). i'm going to wake him up now anyway, he looks so cute in his new tommy hilfiger outfit i have to play with him. he is now... two and a half months old, so BABY he seems in comparison to his newborn cousin! whom i have only seen for a few minutes and can't wait till he comes home from the hospital so i can go see him again.
i was on pins and needles all day tuesday while my sister in law was in labor... reliving my own experience not so long ago. i was blessed with a relatively quick labor (almost 24 hours in total but it wasn't really active, hard labor until the last 6-7 hours, including pushing), but my babs labored, with epidural, from 5 cm to 10 cm from about 11 a.m. until 7:30 p.m., after contractions began around 5 a.m. turned out little issa was not so little, and she ended up under the knife, with issa delivered at 8:19 p.m. i had been so convinced he would be a girl! don't know why. but i'm so so happy. mashallah, he is absolutely gorgeous, all wide eyes and rosy apple-cheeks and fat white kicking legs. after i visited wednesday, i spent almost all day thursday online looking at the nine pictures i managed to snap of him.
i feel apprehensive for my bro and sis in law; this whole parent thing only started being fun in the last month or so, as much as i've loved and cared for my son since before he was born. i pray Allah gives them the patience to make it through the first month or so with their minds intact, and gives them the openness of mind and spirit to accept and embrace the profound changes their lives are undergoing...