Umar Pirzada a.k.a UTP: Fatherhood

Been quiet here...

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:18:59 GMT

Its been quiet at this blog SPOT...for quite some time. Shortage of time is the first excuse and whatever I do get, I blog at my wordpress blog. Anyway, this SPACE was going to be my family area and more about updates regarding myself and my family. As I once wrote earlier also heheh...I do not know how many people really would be interested. Well anyway...it was 16th Jan a few days back...my daughter's 2nd birthday.

I dont know if people remember her 1st birthday and its strange I did not feel the same vigour I did then. I have been asking myself the same since the day. I am a bit sad that she is growing up itni jaldi. I am worried I wont enjoy it to the full and she would be gone to her own things all grown up.

My wife bought a few story books from Pakistan on our last visit and one of the stories was of the caterpillar who turns into a butterfly. I was lucky enough to be the first one to read it with my daughter. She has become really curious and entered the age where she understands the stories we tell her so I had to be animated and make her understand. Least did I know that during the story, I would get real sad considering my little caterpillar is growing up and will soon become a butterfly and fly away...

I close this post here...its too sad to write further...

Ramadan Mubarak from Mahnoor

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:39:37 GMT

Ramadan Kareem is here and Mahnoor would like to wish everyone a Happy and Blessed Ramadan...She is posing different modes of

Allah o Akbar, Sajda and Baba's Topi act....May Allah bless us all and help us get back to the ways that He likes and let us refrain from things He dislikes....May everyone have good rozas...and have a chance to pray as much as possible. May all of us be able to extract all the blessings from this Holy Month....

AAMEEN!!!

My Silkworm

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:55:21 GMT

I never told anyone about my SILKWORM. She is my little cuddly caterpillar who squirms when I tickle...New dads can try it with their newborns if they feel in control. This can only be done when the babies have grown up enough to handle their necks themselves...

Yes I am talking about my daughter...my SILKWORM...

Here is what u do to make a human SilkWorm...u pick her up with ur hands under the armpits and rib area....and while holding her above u...YOU GO TICKLE TICKLE....heheh....be gentle its just a baby....go left first and she would squirm left then....go tickle right....she would squirm...right....

With constant motion of the above you have just created your SILKWORM baby...hehehe....she loves...it...and so do i...

Just that she has gone heavy now so i need to build up more muscles...to pick her up and keep her there for as long as she enjoys heheh....

Sigh....it wont be long before my caterpillar turns into a butterfly and fluttters by to more happier grounds....I miss her already...

but there you have it...your baby SILKWORM....ENJOY!!!

BIG hugs from a LITTLE one...

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:46:06 GMT

Its been quite some time since I wrote about my daughter. That doesnt mean at all that there hasnt been stuff....she is just growing up so wonderfully Alhumdulillah and making us all happy and proud every day of our lives...

Shes started doing new things and has moved a step forward from the FIRST syllable language and now has a lot more words in vocabulary and uses them also on the right occasions...

But the best thing that she has started doing is "THE BABA COME HOME HUG", Oh boy I look forward to it all day long at work....I get home, the door opens and before I could keep the things in my hands anywhere....there comes my little doll running....and gives a good hug...and I mean good...its with all the complete antics....with her head on my shoulder and cute & soft murmurs...of AWWW...!!! Also the gentle THAPKIs on my back...oh boy...

It refreshes me up...after a long day of work...with the cute little hug it just freshens me up so much that I could actually go back to work...again at that time....only...and come back for another HUG heheh....

Today I cheekly fooled her into an extra HUG for the day hehe being greedy and all....I came out of the bathroom and with the whole ASSALAM-o-ALAIKUM cycle making her feel like I have come from work and there she goes.....RUNNING and hugging me....I sneaked up on her and got another big hug...

So now I know, its the ASSALAM-O-ALAIKUM routine that I run that triggers the HUG...but she is smart I cant fool her too much. I cant overdo it otherwise I will lose out on the daily hug also....

Oh Alhumdulillah...for this blessing and so many more blessings...Alhumdulillah!!!