pets up-date

Amjad's new guppy fishes are doing ok, and so is najwan's. One of Azraf's guppies died three days ago. Probably overfeeding -- Papa would feed the fish before he left for work, and Azraf would feed it again later when he got up in the morning -- a pattern we found out too late.

and they got pets

...again, papa just cannot say no to the kids in this matter...

So yesterday, off we trudge to the fish shop, (when we teasingly said it was closed najwan slapped his hand on his forehead and said 'alamak' a-la abah).

The boys got a pair of fishes each. Hania decided she did not want the hassle of taking are of fishes and declined the offer (smart girl :)).

At home, papa prepared the new home for Najwan's fishes, much to everybody else's envy coz it was much more than a bowl filled with water like Amjad's and Azraf's.

Papa's comment was he'd give them 6 days before the thrill went off.

This morning, Amjad's fishes died -- already!!

We were out when kakak made the call, so we dropped by at the fish shop and he got his replacement pair.

Today, Azraf was playing with his fishes. He swore they knew when he called their name -- oligo and koko, and he insisted they prefer the name oligo. He wanted to leave a candle outside the bowl at night so that his fishes would have light.

Ah, the thrills of taking care of your own pets. 5 more days, is it?

tech-gen vocab

so azraf got a rocket launch kit for his birthday.

it was a home-science kit.

so as they were waiting for the mixture to react and produce the CO2 which will in turn launch the rocket, najwan asked papa, "it's loading, eh, papa?"

yesterday, he was on the computer, and he turned around and remarked, we haven't "telephoned" uda in a long time -- meaning skype.

another trip to the doctor for stitches

as we were sitting slightly before maghrib, kak de came rushing over, shouting "ibu, abang kena pisau, keluar darah, banyak, CEPAT!"

so we rushed to amjad. Abah got to him first. He was in the bathroom trying to wash his wounds away (!) while shouting, "ibu, nak pergi klinik."

there were blood spots everywhere on the kitchen floor.

He had to have 4 stitches. Ugh, it was a deep wound -- at first glance it looked like he could have severed a finger. Deep enough that abah almost fainted after a while, luckily Mummy was there and could tend to Abah while I sat with Amjad.

He wanted to help Najwan make a hole for his "fake" bottle. Najwan had this bright idea he could pretend to be a baby again drinking ribena out of his now empty mini 'milk bottle' candy container, only thing was that there was no hole in the nipple. And Amjad decided to cut it with his right hand -- dominant left-hander that he is.

He has to go back Sunday to re-dress the wound, and next Thursday to take out the stitches.

The other kids -- and him -- have decided they're not going to use knives anymore. Najwan threw away the candy bottle right away.

Let's pray this trip for stitches will not be an annual affair.

we went shopping

two weeks ago with the kids in tow.

we have not gone non-grocery related shopping for ages, the last time was when we went to get things for haj.

so there I was, putting some things I planned to buy into the basket. And then there was Amjad, questioning the need for those things. And if my answer was not satisfactory enough, out went the stuff! And we were not even spending his money...