Hakimi @ 14 months

Dah besar panjang anak bujang aku ni. Banyak pulak tu pandai dia. Haih...


Kimi's achievements so far:

• pandai salam and cium tangan!!!! I think the bibik taught him this. Haih.
• pandai sayang. As in cium pipi orang. Tapi kimi's version is more to hulur kepala suruh orang cium. Bukan dia yang cium orang, dia suruh orang cium dia.
• suka menari sambil angkat tangan in the air yo! Pantang dengar iklan potong yang kompang tu.
• Suka tgk dibo the gift dragon. Sampai aku sekali suke tgk dibo.
• Is a good pembodek. Dia nak kerepek from pakcik dia, boleh dia pegi peluk2, baring2 atas bahu orang tua tu... lepas tu dia senyum2 sambil pegi pegang kerepek tu. Haih. Cair.
• Can take simple directions, i.e., 'Kimi, go put on your shoes' and dia pun pegi carik shoes dia and cuba pakai. Or 'Kimi, 'Tolong ambikkan bottle tu please' and dia pun pegi ambik botol susu dia and minum atas katil. Ohh pandainyee anak saya!
• pandai buat-buat tidur on demand. Like, 'Kimi, sini, tidur dekat bantal sini' sambil tepuk2 bantal, and dia akan datang and baring dekat bantal tu. Agak2 dah puaskan hati orang, dia bangunla balik sambil senyum.
• Pandai lari lari angkat tangan gaya2 New Yorkers kena kejar godzilla. Macam.. lari sambil angkat tangan gaya panic, "Help! Help!!"
• Suka korek and cakar hidung Mommy
• Sangat pandai geleng kepala. Dengan badan sekali goyang. Ala2 gelek hindustan.
• Can drink from straw. Sekarang kena watch what i drink in front of him.
• Can feed himself pakai sudu, with my help.
• Can do the twinkle-twinkle little star

On solids:

• Has eaten pretty much everything, except food that can trigger his eczema
• I think he's bored of the usual bubur ayam and ikan. Takde idea dah nak masak food apa that can be frozen.
• Is also bored of his morning nestum. So today I made chocolate chip pancakes for him. Tak tau dia nak ke tak.
• I don't know if he has any favorite food or not. Adoi.

Time flies too fast. Can't believe that my son is a year old. Hihih.

That Phase is Over for You, Lady

Ach and I were talking about my modern-mom sister who is sooo okay and buddy-buddy with her 16-yo son's girlfriend. Yep. He's sixteen. And she's fifteen. w00t! I said, damn my sister is such a sport, she even let that girl datang rumah hari-hari belajar utk PMR with her son. And that girl's mom even paid my nephew to teach her daughter. Right. So I said I hope I'll be that cool with Kimi's girlfriend (?!).

Then we talked about my other nephew, he's 17. My sister made him break-up with his girlfriend on the phone (with the speakers on) in front of her and her husband. Nampak macam tak cool pulak kan? Sebab my nephew ni nak SPM, that's why. So the girlfriend was like... "Kenapa you ni, I love you, you jangan la buat I macam ni.. I sayang you!"
Note: the girl is 17. Matang betul budak2 sekarang.

Then the conversation between ach and I went like this:
Ach: Kalau awak, awak rasa apa?
Ajan: Of course la saya rasa sangat sedih! Boyfriend saya break up dengan saya!
Ach: Honey, I was asking you, kalau awak jadi kakak awak, awak rasa apa. Bukan kalau awak jadi budak 17 tahun tu!
Ajan: Oh.

Yes. Sometimes I forgot that I'm a married lady with one kid. That break-up-dengan-boyfriend phase does not apply to me anymore. That got me thinking, mannn, I'm in a new phase of life. Sudah tua! No more "eh, jejaka itu hensem la, i rasa dia syok kat I. Ee sukanya!" but "I nak anak I jadi apa ye bila besar nanti".

Haih. Sedar2 laaa ajan anda sudah tua. =D

Weekend Cooking Extravaganza

Pretty Vitamin C!

Previously Kimi gets his daily intake of Vit C from either frozen fruit cubes or grated apples. But lately I've been slacking off, saya agak malas utk buat fruit cubes jadi dia asyik makan grated apples saja everyday. I guess he's had too much of it dia tamau makan dah.

I need to think of new ways to give him his vitamins. So last week I bought popsicle molds at Daiso at the Curve and made fruit popsicles for Kimi! Sukaaa!! Actually they're just frozen fruit purees, but instead cubed, dia bentuk popsicle. Hihihi.

For my first attempt I made mango, orange + mango and kiwi popsicle. Ach ate most of the kiwi popsicle sebab Kimi doesn't quite like it. Masam kot. Hihihi.

Next time will try more popsicle recipes. Suka!

that's my ice cream mold, and that's my kiwi puree, that unfortunately, kimi tak suka

Chocolate Chip and Blueberry Muffin

I had the urge to bake something yesterday, the only things available in my kitchen are just nice to bake muffins. So muffin it was.

It turned out that the six muffins that I made were the prettiest and the most nicely risen muffins I have ever baked!!! Oh sangat suka.

Taste-wise, I don't think they taste that good tho, since I dont really like blueberries, and the chocolate chips tasted like cinnamon. Prolly that's because I found them in Mak's rempah box. Hihihi. Ach said it was good and my best muffins so far, but Kimi didn't like them. Somehow, he won't eat anything I cook nowadays. Sedih.

Btw, I think I found the secret for soft, nice muffins - self-raising flour and mixing the wet and dry ingredients until just combined. I'll bake more muffins soon. Double chocolate muffins or coffee ones would be nice.

Muffins, fresh from oven

Good Night, Baby

My son is a very manja baby. Not spoiled (yet?), just manja. Eversince he was born, I would nurse him to sleep everynight without fail. Because of this habit, he now NEEDS me to sleep. He can't sleep without me. Actually he could, but not before crying non-stop for one hour. He needs to have his dose of *nenen* before he dozes off. I kinda like that, because knowing that someone needs you that much makes me feel like a superhero. Like I am needed. And loved.

But now that has become my biggest problem. You see, I might have to be away for around two weeks. It's not confirmed yet tapi aku dah start panicking.

So tonight I thot I'd train him to sleep without nenen. So during his bedtime, I just rubbed his back like I used to do but skip the nenen. Initially he was ok, maybe because he thought he was going to get it. After a while he started crying, and that lasted for an hour, during which he vomitted once.

I tried to jadi hati kering and refrain from nursing him, believe me aku tak tahan langsung I cried. Tak sampai hati dengar budak ni menangis. Konon nak hati kering, konon nak train this boy so that he wont be of any trouble to people left behind, konon taknak selfish. Tapi... I think only mothers understand that feeling.Tak boleh describe. So after one hour I surrendered and nursed him, automatically senyap macam nothing happened.

Haih. Macam mana ni baby?

I've been lucky that I've managed to dodge this situation quite a few times in the last two years, but I think my luck is running out I dont know if I'll be able to dodge this one too. My best hope is to train Kimi in case I have to be away.

This is one of the times that I wish I'm a SAHM. *or single?*

Help.

Morning Jog @ The Lake Garden

I don't know what to write, so I'll just post pictures of us jogging @ Lake Garden. Enjoy!

anak bujang saya

my favorite boys

honestly i didnt notice the tong sampah at all!! rosak gambar!

ye anak, ini namanya daun

jogging!