snippets

dusting the cobwebs...

3/5/2009. Azraf finally lost his lower front tooth, way after the permanent one is out. In the car, he bit into a burger and ouch! it started to bleed, so no burger there then. A few hours later, he accidentally hit his jaw, and out came the tooth. He's getting RM10 for saving us a RM20 trip to the dentist :).

Najwan is now coming home with the van. Teacher Hani says he's getting naughtier in school -- hmmm.... He has a crush on Fatima (at 4!!!! already!!!). He doesn't want to do Furqan with me at home but insists on getting a turn to do that in school. And 1 page isn't enough, it's usually 3 or 4. He's also Mummy/Teacher Hani's 'pilot test child' on the reading system she just started after attending a course.

Last night, Najwan came to me and told me to eat a lot so that the baby can grow bigger quickly.

Hania is back to pretending on glamorous stuff, this week, it is supermodel, she has mastered the supermodel walk. Blue is still her favourite colour.

Amjad isn't as stressed out about his upcoming UPSR as ibu is. 125 days more to go, but who's counting (definitely not him!).

Two new sofa sets for my birthday :) -- one for home, one for the office.

happy birthday jen

Najwan turned 4 yesterday. Wow! And it's not just the number, he's just growing up by leaps and bounds. He is now so into his preschool, so into doing things that big kids do. He wants trucks, cars and a bicycle for his birthday -- he is so into wheels :).

Amjad made jelly for Najwan to take to school today as part of his party pack. That is another big boy.

The party packs were prepared by Hania, Amjad and Syakira. Kids are certainly growing up. No more running around ragged preparing everything, I just have to buy the stuff for them to do. We're not taking a birthday cake to school, Sahrim made mini muffins, that is so much less messier than a cake.

We went out to Spices for his birthday dinner. Abah bought birthday cake for him while Papa went to buy thomas -- there was no Thomas so he got Gordon instead but same difference to him.

He counted his birthday present this morning -- 3 cars and 1 train -- he is one happy boy :).

earth hour 2009

we observed earth hour last night, from 8:30-9:30.

everybody gathered at mummy's house, so #45 was in total darkness.

we lit lots and lots of tea light, mak ngah, pak ngah and umar happened to visit, umar did not seem to have problems in the dark.

the kids passed the time telling stories, remembering the riddles and jokes they heard and re-telling them. it was as much fun trying to answer the riddles and listening to them trying to help out each other in telling the stories.

even the fans were switched off, am pretty proud of the children.

they even went out at 8:30 to check if the neighbours all observed earth hour, and good thing they all did -- the kids could have pretty laser mouths at times :).

Geng

last friday, papa took leave as it was the school holidays.

After FRiday prayers, he took the kids to watch geng.

Boo hoo! and it was my suggestion, and I was so looking forward to taking the kids watch geng, but ibu had a programme with the students at work that day.

It didn't help a colleague had watched it and said it was cool.

still a long time away

everyday, azraf will ask, 'ibu, how big is the baby now?'
november is a long time away :).

I should let him go to websites that chart a baby's growth in weeks, don't think they have any by days.

bad days mean lethargy and splitting headaches. I think the headaches are also withdrawal symptoms from caffeine. so I should be thankful, just nauseuos (sp?) without actual throwing up, it just that that might be a little uncomfortable when you're standing in front of class...

classes are over soon, beach whaling season coming.

hania wants to share the news with her friends already.

they keep rubbing my tummy.

like I said, november is a long time away.

a little excitement

was on leave wednesday.
we sent amjad and syazmi to robotics camp and then went to the dr with azraf and najwan.
azraf was like, why are we here? and we said, just wait and see.
it was a toss-up who got to see the dr first -- azraf was scheduled at the dentist next door.
but ibu's turn came first, and it finally dawned on abang de as he was watching the u/s image what was happening :) :) :)

and they couldn't wait to spread the word around as soon as they got home.
the u/s printout that we got is now pretty much well-worn.
and abang de is so into the new baby. he pored over the 'big book of knowledge' and carefully went through the diagrams and comparing it with the baby.
amjad was speechless at first but is now very protective -- najwan cannot squeeze the baby.
they couldn't wait for mummy to come out of the car before telling her the news.
syakira called mama but mama was at work and she just wanted to tell humayraa, she had to tell someone.
they all wanted to skype grandma to tell her the news.
they have to wait until atok comes home from fishing before they can tell him. the baby's EDD is coincidentally 5/11.

pets up-date

the fishes are breeding!

instead of three different 'homes' all the fishes are now in the nicely decorated pot that papa made for najwan's fishes.

and they're so excited, there are now 2 baby fishes in there.