Amir & School

Masa mula-mula Amir pi school, macam-macam challenges Mama kena tolerate.

First 3 weeks pi school, Mama kena teman Amir naik sampai classroom. Before that, nak kejut bangun pagi pun susah, celik-celik mata aje terus nangis. Amir tak nak pi dengan Papa, Amir nak Mama hantar je. Papa tak best. Ok... janji masuk bilik air and mandi.

Lepas mandi, Mama kena call Abang Mat the van driver. Amir takut Abang Mat lupa pick up Amir. So Mama kena lah berlakon call Abang Mat tu, make sure dia ingat nak pickup Amir and jangan lambat-lambat. Then Amir tegur pulak pasal apa tak dengar suara Abang Mat? Mama kata Abang Mat cakap slow-slow. Suspicious aje budak ni. Mama jangan call tipu-tipu.

Then after that it's another challenge - make Amir have breakfast. Since he starts schooling, having breakfast is something that he really drags doing. Then komplen pasal Amir tak suka makan kat school sebab tak sedap. So Mama kena cakap that kalau tak nak makan kat school, Amir has to eat at home. Otherwise, nanti Mama don't want to tell teacher.

So hari-hari ada je la komplen dia seperti:

• Amir tak suka teacher Anis, dia gemok!
• Amir tak nak pi school nanti Abang Mat hantar balik lambat!
• Amir tak suka teacher Fiza sebab dia pakai specs!
• Amir tak suka makan macaroni tak sedap!
• Amir tak suka baca Iqra' sebab Amir nak ngaji ngan Mama!

So Mama nak buat macam mana dengan budak yang banyak komplen ni? Sabao aje lah.

Nasib baik lately ni mood dia dah improved, Papa boleh hantarkan. And balik rumah komplen pun dah kurang sikit...still there..but improving.

Contractions Counting

Two more days to go!

My contractions are still irregular, which means that the baby is still comfortable in my tummy. Expected what...the original due date is Feb 29. Based on previous track records, the babies would come out 1 or 2 days earlier. So I guess Feb 22 is still on schedule.

The only thing most discomforting is the difficulties getting into the right position while trying to ge to sleep at night. And that's also the time the contractions start coming. Only at night. Last night I had to toss and turn a trillion time and everytime the contractions kicked in, it had to be accompanied with a trip to to the loo. But by 4:30am in the morning, the contractions subsided. I hope these sleepless nights don't follow through after the baby is delivered. All 3 older kids were pretty much good sleepers - last feeding time would normally be midnight, and the next one would be like 5 or 6am. How wonderful it was for me to have uninterrupted sleep during my confinement.

The C-Section on Friday is scheduled to be at 9:30am. I have to fast like 4 hours before the procedure. And the sad thing is I'm always hungry at 7:30am. Looks like I have to sahur by 4am or at least have a midnight snack. Good luck to Mama!

So, this round I hope it would be another blessing...

Countdown

Finally, my gynae & us decided on the C-Section date - it's gonna be February 22, 2008. Papa & Mama were wishing that we could get February 23, as we would have a nice sequence of birthdates for the kids : Abang - 21, Aina - 22, baby - 23 and Amir -24. Unfortunately the gynae won't be around on the 23rd, so we had to settle for 22nd then. But then we never know, baby might want to come out earlier huh?

Counting down the days is tiring. So let's just go with the flow. My tummy is so big I can't even stand for a long period. I even got sick last week after my meeting in Putrajaya, what with the walking in enormous government office complexes (that serves little purpose except for the breathtaking designs), and walking back to the parking lot under the hot sun. Getting home, I immediately came down with high fever and very low blood pressure and had to be saline-dripped. Geez! So now I'm trying very much to minimize my client visits to nil.

My mode of working is from home now, trying my very best to focus and delegate things. One thing for sure, the new guy we would like to recruit (and back me up temporarily) chickened out the last minute. I was expecting him to be on board early February. I guess his current employer counter-offered him with a better deal. So that makes things a little bit frenzier. I can't really delegate much.

So it's back to my current colleague and the CEO & COO to followup my deals he he..