My little prince is 3 years old!

Time flies!

One day I was holding a tiny little thing that weight 2.9kg, wondering how on earth did i ended up with a baby so small and the next thing i knew, there was a 22kg little terror running around the house yelling for attention.

Aqil is, at times so much similar to his brothers and at other times, so very different. So, at 3 years old, Aqil:
1. Still in full time diapers, unlike his babangs
2. Not much of a climber, unlike his babangs
3. A chubby little thing, very much like abangs
4. Loves his susu, unlike bang long but very much similar to bang ngah
5. Has 3 beloved bantal busyuk and 3 putings (puting orange, puting comel kaler blue and putting yellow - names were given by himself)
6. Too careful, unlike his daredevil brothers.
7. Plays psp and android tab like a pro and conquer the tv all the time
8. Has some weird fusion food taste
9. Manja to the max, obvoiusly
10. Prefer to wear bang ngah's old clothes than his own new ones *nih memang stress mommy dibuatnya*

Not so lazy Sunday

Thank you hubby for buying the breakfast and sending the boys to football so that I could stay longer in bed. I wish I could stay until 9am at the very least but I was kind of hungry after the missed dinner last night. But still, I managed to savour my lazy weekend up until 8 something.

Sunday was usually slow paced. I ate breakfast with Aqil (who decided to wake up early) then cooked some pasta for the boys and roasted some chicken cuts for lunch. The two non asians in my house love pasta. Today's menu would make them happy:)  I cooked extra just in case my girlfriends decided to come. If they could not make it to my house, then i could always freeze some of it for Aqil's lunch.

Nap time followed after lunch. Even Aqil fell asleep.

My friends couldnt make it, which was understandable due to heavy rain. But still, I made some bubur jagung for tea. Very nice to have on rainy afternoon

Aqil enjoying his pasta, roasted chicken and the must have tomato sauce

When bibik is not around, everyone must do their share, even the youngest. With bang long supervision, of course.

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Saturday fun...

I wonder since when that my Saturday became ever so hectic...

I  had to drag myself downstairs very early to teach bibik how to make lempeng kelapa for breakfast. Then woke Amri up. Followed by breakfast with him. Add to it husband's uncertain decision whether to eat or not which ended up with additional trip to kitchen. And seperate brekkie for Adam and Aqil because they were not Asian and thus, could not eat lempeng kelapa for breakfast. Egg and bread is fine. Though the time they choose to eat the bread+egg could hardly be called breakfast hours.

Just barely enough time for me to get a quick shower and get ready for kickboxing. Thankfully, the instructor was late. One hour later, I limped back home, chased Aqil around, did some express hair treatment, showered and get ready to fetch Amri.

Decided on lunch at wong solo section 7, which was pretty good in my opinion but definitely not to Adam and Aqil. Ah well....could always feed them sandwich later.

Got home, forced everyone to take a nap. Ended up with Aqil playing with baby powder in our guest room where he and Adam supposed to take a nap. Thankfully he did not feel like putting it all over his sleeping brother.

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Had a tough time waking up Adam for our next agenda - attending a birthday party @ lagenda. Amri thankfully was already dressed. Hubby gave a hand and managed to wrestle Adam out of bed and into some decent clothes. Arrived at party 10 minutes late. Aqil was left behind since he refused his nap - a cranky kid would spoil the party mood and mummy really wanted to chit chat with her friends. The food spread was a wow!!!!

I planned to leave by 4.30pm so that the boys would have enough time to change for football. But there was a magic show and Amri was enjoying it so much and refused to leave the party. Adam meanwhile would rather be playing football. In the end, I told the hostess that I'd be leaving Amri there while I sent Adam to football training.

Another mad rush from lagenda2 to tropika2 to padang bola. This time with hubby and Aqil in tow. Left hubby at the field so that he could pay the fees and had his teh tarik with fellow soccer dads. Brought Aqil with me to the party to collect Amri. Ended up staying again and feeding Aqil and enjoying the chicken dance until it suddenly rain. With lightning and thunder. So off to football field to rescue Adam.

And...the five of us back into the house again, watching the rain while I halfheartedly cooked dinner (no mood sebab dah kenyang sangat).

Notes:
1.Thank you Elin for inviting us and for the nice food. I ended up skipping dinner...still too full to eat.
2. I dont usually cook on Saturday but this was bibik's weekend off so she had gone back to her husband's house after clearing up our breakfast, cleaning up the whole house and made the beds for all bedrooms  (not much of a day off then)
3. The lempeng turned out beautifully in bibik's hand. My excuse  - she didnt multitask and has no need to rush anywhere. Must remember to take picture next time.

Lovely Weekend. My Way.

Had one of the rare fulfilled weekend.

Managed to go to kickboxing on Saturday morning. Somehow, it was lower impact than I remembered. Probably because the cute instructor thought I was a newbie (lama giler tak attend) or maybe the other 3 ladies that I didnt recognised were newbies as well. Good thing as well, I had no intention of killing my body on saturday.

Had to miss PSG meeting. Hard to  manage with just one car, and many places to go.

Had lunch at Mohd Chan chinese muslim restaurant again, after fetching Amri from Dyslexia Centre. Amri loved it.  A lot. I ordered the yummy butter prawn again.  Adam and Aqil weren't impressed. Both toyed with their food. Adam asked for sandwich and chips. Aqil would have too, if he knew how to articulate the request.
*note to self - must only go to fusion or western food eateries if Aqil and Adam are tagging along*

Went to maxis centre @ sacc mall to get new sim card for Amri. Add a detour to mph. Adam and I came home with 3 books each.

Took a nap as planned. Right after coming back from SACC. Such luxury indulgence :)

Nap too long and didnt have much time to cook for tea...haha. So ended up with express chicken wrap for Amri, beef wrap with cheese for Adam and combo chicken and beef wrap for hubby dearest (not enough beef or chicken but plenty when combined). The wrap is very versatile, I think. Must keep more in stock, along with breakfast beef/chicken.

Bought a bicycle for Aqil after sending the boys to their Saturday football practice. He had a first go with it at dbayu while waiting for the brothers.

Read, read and read.

Woke up late on Sunday morning. And stay in bed with my new book, until hunger overcame. Another rare indulgence.

Heat up last week pizza for the boys post football snack, plus a huge cut of watermelon each. Then dragged them to get a haircut from Kraton. As usual, a visit to 7-11 followed. This thing started 10 years ago when I had to bribe Amri to get a haircut. Usually a lollipop. It had now been upgraded to twisties and juice, one set for each boy. Wonder how long this will go on, for the next 15 years maybe. I had given up bringing Aqil here for his haircut, prefering to cut his hair myself, as least for this couple of years. It was too traumatic for both Aqil and the hairstylist. But I'm not an adequate hairstylist, nor did I enjoy doing it. But a mother has to do what a mother has to do....

Another nap after lunch *another sweet indulgence*

Adam and Aqil played in the baby pool at backyard while I was cooking cekodok and apam lenggang (multitasker queen turns mad cook) and I had plenty of fun watching and feeding them cekodok panas from kuali straight to the pool. The cekodoks were gone without me having to serve it properly on dining table but not many takers for the apams. That was until Amri emerged from his cave and mistook the apam for lempeng kelapa (???) and gulped them with chicken curry *gosh*
Tea time at backyard was rather fun this week :)

Decided to cook dinner then quite lost the mood for it (sebab dah  kenyang makan cekodok kah kah kah). Simple dishes then - just seafood+vegi tomyam and fried fish.



Aqil riding a car @ sacc mall with Adam controlling it via a remote device. Aqil didnt know though and was quite annoyed when the car didnt go to whereever he wanted it to go ...muahahaha.

End of weekend. Praying for more weekends like this one.

Son#2 going to big boys school

Amri was away with his friends on a day trip to Janda Baik so Adam and I went out for back to school shopping trip. This kind of trip is best done with the boys seperated. Together, they will create enough chaos to result in forgotten items or uniform in the srong size. Seperately, each one is an angel.

Adam looking worriedly at his Primary 1 books. After years of bringing just his english reader and occasional stationery, he is now entering the big bad world of rote learning.

Trying his uniforms. I love that he'll be in polo shirt and PE tshirt except Monday, where he'll be turn out formally in blue shirt and school tie. The uniforms are comfy and suited the kids well. And easy to manage for parents/maids.

Met a pretty lady while paying for the books and uniforms. Turned out she is from TTDI Jaya and one of her sons will be in Primary 1 too. She was new to this school so I had fun giving her a helping hand.

Off to Subang Parade to buy shoes and some fancy stationeries. Big boy going to big boys school will need big boys stationeries:)

Mommy needs stationeries (to colour mommy's face) and school shoes too...so Adam dutifully wait outside each shop.

Rewarding ourselves after a hard day of lugging our shoppings around :). Mission accomplished.....phew!

A first jamboree

Amri is attending his first annual jamboree this coming Friday and Saturday, held at his school field. I'm proud to say that, at 10 (nearly), he is no stranger to camping trip. And definitely not at a comfy school field. But this is the first camp he is attending as a boy scout and the jamboree will be organised by teachers and Malaysia Army staffs. How cool can it get?

What amused me was the list of the clothes he has to bring. Among other things:
4 t shirts
2 track bottoms
2 sport shoes
1 set of school uniforms
1 set of baju melayu (complete with sampin and songkok)
1 set of planters order*.

Honestly, Amri brought much less on a 3 days camping trip. But then, this is not a picnic cum camping trip. This is a lot more serious stuffs. I just hope Amri and his friends has enough time to change clothes throughout the day and night. It does sound like these kids are going to play dressing up though :)

Hope they have tonnes of fun.

*Planters order is a semi formal dress code, i.e long pants, long sleeve shirt, tie and smart shoes. In a letter from Amri's school, it specifically mentioned black shoes and black slack. I was quite reluctant to buy a 10 year old boy a proper slack so I settled for a docker like black pants :)

He still doesn't have a sampin!!

Baby Aqil @ 7 months old

He has mastered sitting down last month and later, lunging around which put us on high alert at all time




He then figured out how to crawl after spending a few days rocking on all fours tirelessly




Adam said Aqil is doing yoga - downward dog pose








And now, he is pulling up.














What is with the rush baby darling....mummy seriously can't keep up. I haven't even start shopping for high chair yet and now probably have to jump straight to buying safety gate and babyproofing the house.

Amri's big day

After being postponed for several times, we finally managed to get Amri circumcised. Done by the kindly Dr A.Razak from DSH. The procedures were pretty simple. Just walked in to ER on the appointed date, waited at the day ward for your turn, went to OT for GA and surgery then back at the ward 40 minutes after surgery. The GA part was a bit difficult because Amri could still remember his previous OT experience and that pretty much freaked him out. But it went well enough. By noon, hubby, Amri and I ate lunch at DSH cafe and went home. No blood or dressing involved. Well...a little bit of dried blood but it went away after shower.


Amri sleeping off the GA after circumcision








Already awake and waiting for doctor to discharge. Had to buy numerous comic books to keep him occupied







Back at home and showing off his errk...that body part of him...and totally made kakak freaked out










What else...FBing. Which caused my MIL to scream in alarm looking at the way Amri tertonggeng surfing the net. FIL wisely gave up trying to get him to lie down or sit still after the first hour or so




While i was wondering how to give bath to Amri, whether I should call hubby to come back or get my father in law to help, Amri has already showered by himself, changed and ready to go play outside. I caught up with him just in time to stop him from riding his bike out.



Hmmph....really, things were either very easy or very difficult with him. There was no middle ground I guess. But I was happy that it turned out well.

The aftermath

I am still tired. If not because of this SOX nonsense, I wouldn't even bothered to show up at office until Wednesday at the earliest.

Playing nanny to three vacationing boys is no joke, people. Especially when one of them is just 14 weeks old. He may looks tiny but boy.....the loads we have to carry to accomodate him...probably 10 times his weight. All in all, I still think I am lucky because Adam will do whatever Amri does, though he will not necessarily eat the same food as his brother. But still, they wake up, eat, shower, swim, play and sleep at the same time. Aqil however, has his own schedule and quite upset when it went haywire but amazingly, not that difficult to pacify.

Give me one month of this, I'm sure I will have toned arms and high BP.

Well, it was a good trip. I did not have any high expectation since it was a company trip (hubby's company). I tagged along to lend extra pair of limbs and to nag at the boys. It was my hometown anyway. Still, I managed to show up 3 times at Padang Matsirat, which actually, exceeded my own expectation :)

Many thanks to the boss of hubby's company for the fully sponsored trip. Your company still owes me RM78 for taxi fare...heheh.

Other than that, I have lost:
~ one milk dispenser (somewhere at jetty point, i guessed)
~ Nokia mobile phone that I had unofficially given to Amri. But the hotel housekeeping staff had already called me and they'll keep the phone until I could send for it. I'll probably had to get Pak Su to help collect it from Frangipani then pass it to Ilah who'll be there on 29th and she'll pass it to Ira. I haven't yet work out the phone's travel plan from Ira's place at Rawang to BJ.
~ 1.4kg of body weight. So people, if you want to lose weight fast, you can take my three children to holiday.

Where shall we go next?

Amri and Adam saying goodbye to their favourite 'ship' :). This discarded fishing boat was rescued from Kuala Teriang fishing village and parked next to the restaurant and kids were clamouring all over it during breakfast time.

I took my hat off to this lovely resort. They seriously did try their best to be enviromentally friendly. Their kitchen grows their own organic herbs and vegi. And they recycled rain water to be used for watering their plants and for toilet flushing. There were a lot of trees around. Villas are using solar panel for hot shower. Discarded woods were used as signboards (as shown in the photo) and key holders. Recycling effort were in full force. The resort organised nature walk too but we missed it. Missed the yoga class too huhuhu...

They did a lot of other things too to preserve the environment. If you have small children, this place is great. Not only it was children friendly but you could teach your children lots of things without ever stepping out of the resort. Things that never made it to classroom. Like how to climb coconut tree, coastal fishing, gardening and of course, how to take care of mother earth.

If you're honeymooners, I am not too sure about it :) This resort was full of kids around Amri and Adam age. And full of baby strollers too. While it was fun for the kids to meet other kids from all around the world, and mommies strolling around pushing their babies, newlyweds may shy away from starting their own family, after a few days holidaying here. Disclaimer *all the kids there, including ours, were very well behave, just as kids were*

Amri and Adam trying their luck at a chocolate shop in the middle of Langkawi Airport. They said they wanted to win a bag for me...hehehe.....

Aqil in TheBabyLoft sling. I finally figured out that he was okay with this sling as long as the aircond was on or the weather was very cool (as in before 7.30am by the beach) and his head was out in the open. Took me three months to find out.

Aqil was still sleeping. He slept from the moment we checked in our luggages and his stroller, through the boys shopping spree at chocolate shop, my own bag shopping spree, lunch, boarding and take off. He was awake after that until we reached home but totally being angelic.

Langkawi Day 4

Activiti di pagi hari. Celik mata je terus jenjalan/berendam/kutip sea shells kat pantai. Until they became too hungry to stay. Breakfast would follow.

At the Crocodile Farm. For some reason, the boys were really interested to be here. I was not. Poor crocodiles looked bored to death. Sometimes you could not even distinguish between real crocodile and a stone/concrete crocodile put up there as decoration. They were that still.

Langkawi Day 3

Aqil woke up rather late. I was famished. He had his schedule gone crazy as well and by now, quite able to adapt. He had no problem with strange cot though I had my doubt seeing that it did not have bumper pad. But we were provided with loads of towels so I used some to pad the sides and two small pillows to pad the front. The mattres was a little lumpy but I was not too worried. Aqil could lift his head pretty well and on top of that, could shuffle forward. Which was the reason why padding was of utmost important. Anyway, he slept soundly and did not move at all. The blanket stayed the same way when we tucked him in 12 hours ago. Penat maut nih.

Amri with some sleeping sharks at Underwater World. Both boys were at first, quite reluctant to go and only grudgingly agreed after I mentioned penguin. But once here, they went wild. Especially went they could spot some of the cast of spongebob.

Earlier on at the penguins, all photos taken were rather dark. So I changed to night mode. The result - Aqil's stroller looked rather weird with the reflective light on the lining. Hehe. It looked hot, literally.

The boys were impressed with this huge stringray. I was impressed too, especially when it sailed past above your head.

Langkawi Day 2

Started our day with a long walk by the beach until the sun was up. The two boys collected all kinds of seashells and dead 'patrick'. Followed by breakfast once Aqil was up and given his bath. Then back to the pool for the two boys until it was too hot to swim.

We were having lunch at Mak Su's house today and Amri took the opportunity to check his email (macam le banyak) and update his facebook using Hafifi's PC. He no longer complained about not being allowed to bring laptop along. I didn't bring mine either, for the obvious reason - my hands were full with Aqil tagging along. Plus, blackberry was enough as my battlesword for these few days. Huhuhu.

Feeding the ducks at Oriental Village. Nice place but I wish it was more green - lots of trees and grass. It was super hot though.

Cable car ride. Adam and Amri was very excited. They screamed (gleefully) as if they were on a roller coaster. Which in turn, scared Aqil. Poor baby bawled his eyes out. It took hubby and I quite some time to calm him down. Phew!

The Langkawi Suite was big enough to accomodate 2 extra single beds and 1 baby cot. As usual, Amri and Adam would put their bed together, turning it into one queen size bed. And they parked their bed right in front of the tv. Duh! Made more exciting when they discovered it had disney channel. Interestingly, Aqil enjoyed watching tv with his brothers as well. Hmmph. By 2012, I am so carting off all three boys to their own hotel room. No more sharing with parents. Period.

Langkawi Day 1

A few minutes after we arrived, the boys promptly jumped into the pool. Made more convenient when hubby upgraded our room from SeaView Villa to Langkawi Suite Villa. It was like, a few steps forward to the sea and a few steps to the left for swimming pool.


Beautiful Pantai Tengah during sunset. Honestly, I think Pantai Tengah is more peaceful than Pantai Cenang.

My poor little baby. He had a rough day. First, he panicked at home when others were rushing around packing things up (typical in my household....last minute lagi syiok). Then he had his first experience of ear pressure during take off and landing. On top of that, he poo pooed during the flight and was getting uncomfortable. At the moment this photo was taken, it was way past his bath and bedtime but mummy and daddy were not quite ready to go inside.

My one month old baby

Generally speaking, Aqil is an easy baby. He was fuss free during the drive to and fro Kuala Terengganu. He has no issue with his baby carrier, though it looks oversize on him. He slept through hubby's spectacular firework show. And he slept through silat gayung show with the loud accompanying music just 5 feets from him. In fact, he will sleep through just about anything as long as it is not between midnight and early morning, when he will be wide awake and will insist on some kind of entertainment. He breastfed and bottlefed well and has no nipple confusion whatsoever. Funny that. Probably babies nowadays are born with the knowledge of multiple nipple option as part of their rooting reflex or something.

What else? Well, just like his brothers (and to some extend, his mother) he has no specific schedule whatsoever. He'll nurse as and when he feels like it, thus the reason i decided to seek the help of pacifier. Which created another problem. Unlike mommy's booby, the dummy kept falling out of his mouth. It was getting tiring to pop it back into his mouth so unless anyone could advice me what brand can I buy to minimise that, I am sorely tempted to put duct tape over it.

All things said, I am still in awe of his lovely hair and bright sepet eyes. I wish I can have that hair.

Baby is here!

And it is a boy (despite SJMC's pink blanket).
Born at 1.54pm on 01/09/09 weighting a mere 2.95kg.

Happy Birthday!!!

Hubby with his cake, surrounded by impatient and starving kids


On the same day with akad nikah, my dear husband and his youngest brother the newlywed celebrated their birthdays. The same date, only with 15 years between them.

We celebrated by way of satay, meehoon singapore and of course, two cakes. Also joining the ceremony was their eldest brother whom birthdate was on 6th of June. The pengantin, understandably, went missing with his new bride during cake cutting ceremony. Only to appear much, much later when only a few strands of meehoon left in the tray.









Ayah Long, cutting the other cake





Happy Birthday guys.

Cakes are ordered from http://darulimancupcakes.blogspot.com/

Selamat Pengantin Baru to Hasnan & Hasrina

My bro in law gets married. To his childhood sweetheart. They used to walk to kindy together, once upon a time, before the bride's family moved to another town.

Anyway, today was for akad nikah. Held at the beautiful Masjid Kristal at 3.30pm. The wedding will be on 12th June in Kemaman - the official residence of the bride.

To this newly wed couple, congratulation and may you live happily ever after.

From Kedah to Terengganu

Timur Barat Highway rest area.

We arrived at Terengganu for the second part of our trip.

It was hot.

If I thought Kedah/Penang was sweltering, Terengganu was even more. Even with rain. If you thought Klang Valley was hot, think again.

God...being pregnant during this kind of weather was a torture. I bid farewell to restful nights (or days for that matter).

After a few hours, Adam was covered in rashes. Red welts appeared everywhere, private part included. Poor boy. Bepanthene and extra shower helped though.

Amri however, couldn't care less. He'd survive just as well anywhere, any weather. Acclimatised? Who need that.

Happy 26 years old

Happy 26th birthday to Ajoe. Many happy returns.

My dear brother turned 26 years old today. We just celebrated it at home since birthday boy was due to return to his own place today and back to work tomorrow. He'd probably just as anxious to go celebrate it with his brand new fiancee.

We did not buy a birthday cake too. There was a nice cake given as part of engagement hantaran yesterday with his name on it so we cut that one :)