My Late Bloomer

If I calculate the number of waking hours in a working day, it’d be only about 4-5 hours that I get to spend with my little pumpkin Aisha. So, imagine the reluctance of me waking up in the morning just to go to work. Once I’m all cuddled up with her under the bed covers, it’s all warm and fuzzy. The smell of her slightly sweaty hair plus the remains of the already dried up baby formula around her lips, though some kind of sour, it’s enough to leave my nostrils stuck on her forehead forever. It’s difficult to let go. Baby smell is the most wonderful smell, and I’m enjoying it most with her because I will not get to enjoy another of my own baby after this.

Now Aisha is already 1 year old, and yet she’s taking her own sweet time to grow up. She hasn’t got any tooth yet, compared to her brothers and sister, who got their first when they were about 6 or 7 months old. And she only started crawling only about two weeks ago though she’s already making her baby steps way before she crawled by hanging on to the sofas and table.

Perhaps another reason for being late is purely for me to take pleasure of her infancy. It’s such a great feeling being around her after a long day at work. She’s getting cheekier by the day, especially after her birthday, giggling her heart out when Papa tickles her tummy and demanding to be tossed in the air often times. A great stress reliever.

She’s learning fast too, picking up a trick or two in a day from her siblings. Before I knew it, she’d be another Amir…gosh I hope not. I hope she turns out more like Aina, sweet and polite, but she needs to be a little chirpy which I think there’s no problem of doing that . Anyway, just want to wish my little baby girl a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

My wish for you pumpkin is that life will be kind to you,
yet you will go through hardship, but you’ll learn from it as life is never fair.
I wish that you don’t have to face all the cruelties in the world,
but you’ll be aware of them and learn to give, forgive and forget.
I wish that you will achieve your dreams,
but you’ll climb the mountains to reach it with all your might.
Most of all my darling, I wish that you will never forget your mighty creator in all your endeavors.

We all love you very much!

My Little Perfectionist

Doing homework with Amir is not easy I tell you. Like always, the teacher's message commands more respect that the mom's teachings.

This time Amir was doing his Bahasa Melayu homework and some writing. So his work was to write the sentence that the teacher wrote on top of the page and to practice his physical writing skills, he needed to copy the sentences on top over and over again. And guess how long it took to write 6 sentences like "Datuk duduk di dapur"? It was 1 1/2 hour!!

Why?

He insisted that all the alphabets must be parallel to the top (his teacher's sample). As his writing was so big, of course everything went out of proportion. And he would nag and nag that his teacher will make him stand on the chair for not doing it correctly and nicely. Then he would erase the entire sentence and wrote it all over again. Then he would get confused once the alphabets went out of range... trying to look for the 'D' of "duduk" when it has gone under "dapur" of the previous line due to his big writing. I tried to convince him that as long as the writing is readable and straight, he shouldn't be worried. But then, who was I to say that?

"Mama ni..teacher cakap betul la..., Mama mana tau Mama bukan teacher!"

Adoi!


Because of that, Mama had to have some retail therapy.

So Mama went out and buy some stuff for my last weekend project, which I spent the entire Saturday afternoon cucuk mencucuk..

And hasilnya...






















At least my living hall corner got a new look :-)

New Year at the Bird Park

The Bird Park is near Tasik Titiwangsa. We have been wanting to go there for some time since the last trip to Butterfly Park. KL Bird Park is well known worldwide as "The World's Largest Covered Bird Park" or "The World's Largest Free Flight Aviary", home to more than 3,000 birds from approximately 200 species of local and worldwide birds.






Since Papa was busy beraya Gong-Xi, I took everyone including the maid (4 is too many to handle alone especially in a public attraction place). Aisha was one happy baby when we first got to the park, so did my maid who screamed "Ibuuuk.... banyaknya burung! Ibuuukkk..besar ya cenderawasih...! yadaa yadaaa yadaaa". Felt like I want to hide away under all those shady trees.





Since my camera always kena pau, had to rely on my phone camera.. This place would be wonderful for all DSLR enthusiasts. The birds were so colorful and poised!




My boys just love to feed to Kois...all fat and chubby.






Beautiful peacocks. We waited for them to flash the colorful tail, but I suppose they only do that during mating time. So they boys decided to feed them fish food, and they came out from behind the fence and jumped over. Bertempiaran lah the boys lari!



Of course the girls je yang tak takut. Aina happily posing with a peacock. By this time Aisha already felt asleep in her buggy.







At the Ostrich & Emu section after we saw part of the Bird Show.



At the nursery with baby chicks and ducklings. Of course Abang paling penakut to grab the one chick.










Lovely. I had this flower at home before, but of course Gary (siput babi as my kids call it - based on too much Spongebob exposure) ate them all up. By this time, the kids were all hungry and we had our early dinner at the Hornbill Restaurant just outside the park. You could actually dine with the birds picking on your food.

By 6:30pm, we were on our way home, with smooth traffic condition as almost everyone is out of town for the CNY. Wish it was like that for all the days that I go to work...