Poor Baby

in my recent entry i mentioned that fahmi is down with cold & cough. well, yaya too catch cold and cough; transferred down to them by their mama.

i took leave yesterday. the actual reason was to teach the new maid on house chores. but it so happen that both of them were down with cold & cough, so basically i was doing both, teaching the new maid & minding 2 sick children.

fahmi is getting better now. but yaya is getting worse, i hope it won't take so long for the bug to go off.

i reached home at almost 8pm tonight. my heart ache finding yaya lying down on the sofa, looking tired and weak. carried her upstairs with me, put her on my bed while i perform maghrib prayer. she was coughing all the time while she tried to get some sleep.
before i took my shower, i rub some black seed vapour on her feet and put on her socks; a tip i got from email on how to put away bad cough. it is effective on children as well as adults.
alhamdulillah, the cough goes away, and she sleeps peacefully.

poor my baby...

The Birthday Luncheon

the whole family, except my youngest brother gathered for a 'small' luncheon at manhattan fish market to celebrate fahmi's birthday. at first we thought that with the children around it's gonna be a very chaotic lunch, but alhamdulillah it turns out that the children including mine were all well-behaved.


the little fairies















my pink angel



the birthday boy, sengih dapat makan fish n chips (just like mama)


birthday boy dikerumuni bidadari


whoops... bidadari berjaya kick birthday boy out dan membolot kek diego! girl powerr!!! (emm this is still considered as well-behave okay)


birthday cake... emmm yummylicious. mak2 budak & bapak budak semua kecur liur


self potrait senyuman (more like grinning eh?) orang yang dah kenyang...


the birthday boy is now down with flu & cough & slight fever... dek kerana ciuman charlie's angels semalam. 'jantan terhagnat di pasaran' is back! ;-)

Hoorah! Fahmi is 4!!!

we decided not to organise a big celebration party, and opt for a simple birthday luncheon with our family in seremban. but i and my itchy hands could not stand doing nothing for my boy. so, me & hubby stayed up until late last night, preparing for fahmi's birthday surprise.








i asked hubby to blow some balloons while i baked my carrot cake in a small loaf pan and let it cool overnight. came morning i sprinkle it with icing sugar and a dash of colourful chocolate rice on top. found only one piece of candle in the kit cab, jadilah tu for a last minute prep, lit it up and sing Happy birthday for Fahmi.

the birthday cake

the birthday boy with his crayon













we decided not to go for a big celebration party, and opt for a simple birthday luncheon with our family in seremban.

Fahmi's stats

height - 105cm
weight - i think he's 16kg now ( his last weight was 17kg, but now he's stop taking formula milk he had lost at least one or two kg)
he talks so much, ask a lot of questions, curious about things around him, always demanding an answer for every question he had about something
i know i can depend on him for certain things. between him & yaya, he listen to our command better than yaya, he can accept reasons while yaya would throw tantrums the minute we say no. he's the most reasonable one. he's fahmi - 'kefahamanku'...

he, being my first born, i have a very high hope for him.

When Mama Not Watching

when daddy is working

and mama's not watching

the two little kittens are up to mischief

they're playing hide and seek...

oh ya, btw it's not to late to wish everyone Happy New Year!!! i never have a resolution, not then and am not going to start now.

One Week

i was relieved to see both my children well settled in the new environment. yaya doesn't cry anymore. she became so excited to go to school. this is the first time she is being put in a place where her socialising skill is tested. alhamdulillah there was no complaint about her 'bekeng ness', i sincerely hope its not because nobody cares to give any comment or feedback.

ok, so the children settled, but i'm not. something happened on saturday. which made me feel uncomfortable to send my children to the 'school'. i've accepted that there've been some miscommunication, which led to a small hiccup on 'their' side. me and hubby was furious in the first place. but we give it a thought and for the sake of the children, honestly because we were left with not much choice, we decided to forget about it. to let it go for now, but we will still plan our next move.

our next 'plan' will be in place by next week. insyaAllah if everything goes well, by the 2nd last week of january, we would not have to send the children to the 'school' anymore.

First Day

Bibik return to hometown last Saturday. Leaving us maid less. Not that I mind not having her around, we were relieved to be rid of her. But it would help if we can have new maid immediately to take over running the house. Yes, aku belum serik with maid.

With the maid less state we had to make new arrangement and rules for the house. For instance, the kids have will have to go to a nursery. Yes, I talk about sending them to one particular nursery where sally sends her boys to. Hubby is car less now, and the weather is so unpredictable nowadays to risk having hubby fetch the kids riding his motorcycle. Meaning I will have to send and fetch them from the nursery, which I can’t afford to do, not everyday. There’ll be times when I have to stay late at the office.

So we change the plan and send them to one nursery in our neighbourhood. We send fahmi there once when he was 11 months old because his babysitter was sick at that time. I told the kids that they’ll go a school; I use the word school because they accept it far better than ‘nursery’ or ‘babysitter’ or ‘mak cik’.

Yaya was so excited about this ‘school’ thing. She got up early this morning while I was still in the bathroom. Fahmi doesn’t move an inch when I wake him up, he doesn’t want to go. He wants to stay at home, but I told him that there’ll be nobody at home to mind him anymore. In the car, yaya was still so excited, she recited all my pesanan to her about what she should say if she wants to eat, what to say if she want to doo doo etc. I address the child minder as ‘teacher’ so that she’ll think it is a real school. Liar! She was still in her happy mood when we arrived at the ‘school’, while fahmi protested by saying “sekolah apa ni?” when he heard a toddler’s cry. I had to nudge his shoulder and coerce him inside.

Once inside and upon noticing the unfamiliar faces and surrounding and soon realizes that she will be left for the whole day at this new place, yaya started to cry while fahmi too occupied with the slide he doesn’t even care that I’m leaving. I had to promise yaya that I would bring her to McD if she stops crying. Which she did dengan mulut muncung sedepa. sigh… i felt a sudden tug at my heart, hate leaving them behind like this.

Mum offered to mind the kids for a week or two until we find a new maid. That’ll mean leaving the kids behind with mum and gets to see them over the weekend. It’s not up for consideration though , that’s why I didn’t tell mum much earlier about the latest development in my household. Mum developed inconsistent blood pressure which at the same times causes dizziness. I can’t be burdening her with my problems can i?

It’s not too bad having to do all the house chores on your own kan? I could loss a few extra kilos I’ve put on ever since ada maid dulu. ;-)

Aidiladha

allahuakbar allahuakbar allahuakbar
la ilaha illallahu allahuakbar
allahuakbar lillah ilhamd...

semoga semua jemaah haji yang mengerjakan haji sentiasa berada di bawah lindungan Nya
dan semoga semua yang melaksanakan ibadah korban mendapat keberkatan dari Nya
i hope dengan limpah kurniaNya next year ada peluang untuk aku melaksanakan qurban

we'll be celebrating our 1st aidiladha at our own house here in subang. i'll be preparing my signature dish, nasi minyak with gulai daging, ayam merah and hubby's special request, gulai ikan tongkol. for those who feel like eating nasi minyak orang 'ganu, you are most welcome ;-)

selamat hari raya aidiladha