"nama sapa"

najwan has learned the given names of the family members pretty well.
abang nama... N: amjad
kak ngah nama... N: nia
abang de nama ... N: azraf (with the z and r blended together -- can't do it myself, only a 3 y.o. can I guess!) of course he still tends to say 'abang le'
papa nama ... N: zi
kak de nama ... N: syakira
angah nama ...N: syami
kakak nama ... N: sahrim (or bella! depending on his cheeki-meter!)
abah nama ... N: encik (!)
along nama ... N: syira

he has problems keeping these names straight though
mummy nama... N: Tihana
ibu nama ... N: Lihani (or vice versa)

fat? moi?

that's the sound of ibu getting pulled down to earth by her kids!

I'm small-sized, and keep getting this sort of remark 'oh wow, you don't look like you have 4 kids.'

but the kids keep me rooted on the ground (if not thoroughly nailed)!

last night, najwan sat on my lap and then suddenly patted my tummy (bulging as it was after my dinner).
mummy asked him: what's in there?
another 3 y.o. would answer 'a baby' but nooo, this one promptly said "fat!" --- agh!!!!

half an hour later, as I was sitting on the sofa with the kids surrounding me, amjad
suddenly piped in "ibu, I think you have to start exercising" while looking pointedly at my tummy. out of the blue.

aghh!!! aghh!!!

it doesn't help that I'm finally starting to do some sit-ups lately.

teeth coming out

we have got to take azraf to the dentist soon.
two weeks ago, he so excitedly showed us his two front teeth (lower jaw) were slightly loose. ok, so it was just very slightly loose but it was exciting for him, sufeeya has already lost hers.
last friday, I wanted to check how loose it was getting, anddiscovered the permanent teeth were already showing!
Alamak! time to go to a dentist.

of course uda still is not back yet. Hania developed this phobia of dentist after her first visit (which went okay by all accounts but she's now one screaming girl when it's time to go).

so we're waiting til this friday night or saturday morning. I'm not sure why, but papa wants to be available for azraf just in case (of what?) so we have to wait til the weekend.

pinggan mangkuk

pinggan is amjad's name for his pet parakeet.
so azraf wanted to name his 'mangkuk' but amjad objected.
the pair of parakeets are now officially Pinggan and T-rex.

they have a big cage for themselves.

hania doesn't want a bird, she's aiming for a rabbit (!).

last week, Najwan and me had this conversation while we were watching the birds.

Najwan: tu abang nye, tu a 'le (abang de) nye.
Me: Adik nye mana? Where's yours?

and a small bird (burung pipit) happened to fly and land on the cage.

Najwan: Tu adik nye!
Me: oh, ok, adik nye nama apa?
Najwan: Cawan!

Gotta give it to the boy :).