I'm taking some time to post an entry here as this blog has not been active. After the Chinese New Year break, I've been busy with work and have not much spare time too blog. Shah has also commented that it has been quite a while since I've put any updates on Maisarah's development in this blog. So this entry is entirely on my baby girl.
Update 1 : She calls herself 'Mai-ara'
Previously she would call her self 'Yayaya'. But I've noticed a few weeks ago that she would sometimes refer to herself as 'Mai-ara' (with a silent 's'). This was confirmed whe I asked her 'Siapa ni?' while patting her and she would reply 'Mai-ara'.
Update 2: She knows all of our names
Maisarah knows that her abah's name is Shah and her mummy is Anisa. She also knows that Norziah is her Baba and Syed Ahmad is her Habib. She also knows the names of my sister, brother and the maid. So we've now got to teach her the names or her Wan and Mak Tok so that when she can show off her skills when we go back to Perlis.
Update 3: She will laugh when she learn a new word
My mom noticed this. Whenever Maisarah hears a new word and it catches her fancy, she will repeat it many times and laugh. One time, my mom was cooking and she told the maid that she will 'tumis' the chillies herself. Maisarah heard the word 'tumis' and laughed. Then she kept on repeating the word and laughed every time she said it. So now, if we ask her 'Hari tu Baba tu...?' and she will reply 'mis'. Then another time, my mom was sewing and she taught Maisarah the word 'needle' and that the needle is 'tajam' (sharp). So that night, my mom asked her to repeat the word and Maisarah kept on saying 'needle' while laughing. She also will say 'tajam' asfter that. And every time she laughed, she will saya 'ketawa'. She is so adorable!
Update 4: My daughter loves attention and being praised
Every time we sit around the dining table (which is usually after dinner), Maisarah will show off her skills and then clap her hands whil saying 'Aaaaa' so that we will also clap our hands to her antics and cheer her on. A few nights ago, Maisarah was playing with her old swaddling blanket (which is a ctually a cloth nappy) when Shah took the nappy and placed it on her said saying that it was a headscarf (tudung). Then my mom, dad and I said 'Comelnye!!' (So cute!). She then repeated the word 'Comelnye' and removed the headscarf. A few minutes later, she placed the nappy on her head again and said 'Comelnye' while expecting us all to praise her cuteness.
Update 5: I've lost count of her vocabulary
If you were to ask me to list down the words she knows, I would be stumped. Amazingly, Maisarah knows a lot of words and sometimes she amazes us when she says a word that we've never taught her before. One day, she was playing with a scouring pad and we asked her what was she doing. To our amazement she said 'Basuh plate' (Wash plate). My mom and I was shocked as we didn't recall ever teaching her the word 'plate'. So we gathered she must have heard us saying the word many times and learnt it herself. Another time was when my sister and I were talking while I was changin Maisarah's diaper. My sister said the word 'mindset' and Maisarah repeated it a few times that night. Since then, when we ask Maisarah 'What did Mama Ya say?', Maisarah would reply 'mindset'. I pray to Allah that Maisarah's brightness will remain forever.
Update 6: Thanks to Barney, Maisarah now knows the basic shapes
I've mentioned many times that Maisarah is such a fan of Barney and we have bought her a few Barney VCD's. Two of the VCD's teaches kids the basic shapes, i.e. square, circle and triangle. Since Maisarah watches these VCD's almost every monrning and night, she now recognises these shapes. it's so cute to listen to her say 'triangle', 'square' and 'circle' what with all her 'pelat'-ness.
Update 7: Maisarah is such a girly-girl
Did I mention to you that Maisarah loves to play with my lipstick and handcream bottles? She will always go to my dressing table and askes for 'cyeam' (read: cream). Some times, we ask her 'Cream letak mana?' (Where do you apply the cream?) and she would reach to her hand over her shoulder and apply the cream bottle to her back. This is a result of watching mommy apply Yo*ko-Yo*ko on her back every night while thinking that the Yo*ko-Yo*ko bottle is the same as the handcream bottle.
Maisarah also loves being massaged. Every night after changin her diaper, I will massage her legs and body before changing her into her nighties. And all the while I am massaging her she will lay still and enjoy being pampered.
Well, I guess that is long enough for today. I will write more on Maisarah's development later on so that this will me my memory of my daughter's childhood.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Maisarah Gave Us A Scare
Last night Shah, Maisarah and I slept early. That's not unusual for us as we need to switch off the lights in order to get the little one to sleep. So once the lights are off usually all three of us will drift off to lala land. However, I awoke at 1 am and can't seem to fall back to sleep which is unusual for me. So I decided to get up and made my Isya' prayers. Now I'm wide awake and decided to post an entry since this blog has not been active.
Maisarah gave us quite a scare yesterday afternoon. We spent half of yesterday at Shah's neice's birthday party. Maisarah was kinda cranky during the event as she didn't have her morning nap. She was happily playing and running around one minute and then would cry the next minute especially if I forbid her from playing with the decorations or the food. I managed to put her to sleep around noon but only for an hour. After she woke up from her nap she was still a bit cranky. So we decided to go home.
We arrived back home at around 3 pm and I tried putting her to sleep again but she wanted to watch Barney. Halfway through Barney, we went into the living room and Maisarah started playing. She wanted to play with a set of keys laying on the table but I forbade her as it belonged to my sister's friend who came to visit. I told her nicely not to play with the keys as it didn't belong to her. Maisarah went quiet. Suddenly she started weeping. I picked her up and then the weeeping changed to wailing. She cried so hard until she had difficulty breathing. I tried consoling her but she kept on crying fiercely. Then Shah tried to take her to console her but she clinged on to me. All the while, she was crying louder and louder. She was trying to catch her breath while crying and it made her look like she was suffocating. By this time I was panicking but I kept it inside and just hugged her close while reciting ayat kursi and zikr. Shah was panicking too and kept on asking Maisarah what she wanted but we couldn't make out the words as they were muffled by her crying. Her cries finally subsided half an hour later. We're not sure why she cried but we deduced that it could be caused by tiredness and maybe due too teething as I saw a new budlet when she was crying.
That incident sure scared Shah and I sh*tless. Maisarah cried so hard she sweat profusely and the veins on her face were bulging as though they were going to burst. I pray to Allah that this won't happen again.
Maisarah gave us quite a scare yesterday afternoon. We spent half of yesterday at Shah's neice's birthday party. Maisarah was kinda cranky during the event as she didn't have her morning nap. She was happily playing and running around one minute and then would cry the next minute especially if I forbid her from playing with the decorations or the food. I managed to put her to sleep around noon but only for an hour. After she woke up from her nap she was still a bit cranky. So we decided to go home.
We arrived back home at around 3 pm and I tried putting her to sleep again but she wanted to watch Barney. Halfway through Barney, we went into the living room and Maisarah started playing. She wanted to play with a set of keys laying on the table but I forbade her as it belonged to my sister's friend who came to visit. I told her nicely not to play with the keys as it didn't belong to her. Maisarah went quiet. Suddenly she started weeping. I picked her up and then the weeeping changed to wailing. She cried so hard until she had difficulty breathing. I tried consoling her but she kept on crying fiercely. Then Shah tried to take her to console her but she clinged on to me. All the while, she was crying louder and louder. She was trying to catch her breath while crying and it made her look like she was suffocating. By this time I was panicking but I kept it inside and just hugged her close while reciting ayat kursi and zikr. Shah was panicking too and kept on asking Maisarah what she wanted but we couldn't make out the words as they were muffled by her crying. Her cries finally subsided half an hour later. We're not sure why she cried but we deduced that it could be caused by tiredness and maybe due too teething as I saw a new budlet when she was crying.
That incident sure scared Shah and I sh*tless. Maisarah cried so hard she sweat profusely and the veins on her face were bulging as though they were going to burst. I pray to Allah that this won't happen again.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Yeay, I like looking at the fishes!
This was taken earlier today at O*U. Maisarah really loves watching the fishes swim around in the aquarium. There were also fishes swimming in the ponds nearby and she really loved watching them too. We'll need to bring her to the Aqua*ria soon.
Friday, February 06, 2009
Weekend Plans and Home Decoration
It's 11 pm now. Both Maisarah and her Abah are asleep. I wasn't feeling sleepy yet so I decided to get on the Net. Maisarah followed us to the office today but we were there only for half a day. We took leave today but went to the office for my class. Once I finished the lecture at 11 am, we zoomed back to PJ. We stopped for lunch at Gi*ant KJ and then reached home before 1 pm so that could go to Friday prayers. Maisarah and I watched her favourite purple dinosour VCD and then Kungfu Panda. Less then 15 minutes into the movie, we fell asleep. We didn't even realize Shah coming home from prayers. Anyway, the rest of the day was spent lazing around the house.
Tomorrow we're planning to go out to one of the shopping malls (either O*U or The Cur*ve). It's been awhile since we went to the mall together. Not sure what we're gonna do there. Probably just walk around and then have lunch. On Sunday, Shah has to go meet a friend so maybe Maisarah and I will go out with my sister. We're planning to go to Ikea* since it's been ages since I've been there. I just love to look at the furniture and home accessories there while imagining how I'll decorate my future house but Shah is not too keen on furniture window-shopping. So, this will be the chance for me to head there. Plus, I'm longing for the Sweedish Meatballs.
Anyway, talking about home decor. Have I ever mentioned that sometimes before I sleep at night I will imagine how I will decorate our the house that we have bought? I can't wait to decorate our house once we get the keys and I have lots of ideas on how I will decorate each and every room. Since I was in the UK, i love to watch home decor shows and I always bought book and magazines related to home decor. And some times, when I'm bored with my PhD work, I would browse the Net for home decor pictures and save those that I like. So I can't wait to put all the things I learned from the TV shows, books and magazines into practise.
The first place I'm going to decorate is the kitchen. I'm torn between having an English country kitchen with all the wood cabinets and flowers or a modern contemporary kitchen with a marble or granite table top and stainless steel back splash. What I'm sure of is that I want a kitchen cabinet made of wood with built-in microwave and electric oven. My ideal kitchen would have a cooker placed on top of an island in the middle of the kitchen but that would not happen as the kitchen in our future house is not that big. But I'll definitely try to put in a breakfast bar. I also want a big fridge and am dreaming of having one with twin-doors but that would cost us a bomb. As it is, my dream kitchen cabinet may have already cost us an arm.
The next room that I like to imagine decorating is our bedroom. Our future bedroom in the house is huge! Well, huge for a terrace house anyway. There is even a sort of "walk-in closet" leading to the bathroom. So I am so going to have fun shopping for our wardrobes. I would love to have full wall-to-wall wardrobes with lots of hanging space and drawers. I also secretly would like to have a floor-to-ceiling shoe cabinet like what Carrie had Mr Big make in the SATC movie but my mom says that is not for us Asians since we dont wear our shoes in the house. So, I've got to find some where in the house where I can have a big shoe cabinet since I am a shoe addict and I want a nice home for all my shoes where thay can be displayed beautifully and not be put in boxes and cramped under the staircase any longer. As for the bed, we have decided that it should be King sized. And I am secretly hoping for an iron four-poster bed but a wood-framed bed is okay too. And I think there will be enough space in the room to place a day bed so that is Maisarah falls sick she can sleep with us in the room.
Well, I think that's enough for now. I'll write more on my dreams for our future house decor next time. I've got to go to bed and tonight while I lay in bed waiting to fall asleep, I'll imagine how I'm going to decorate the living room and upstairs family area. Sweet dreams!
Tomorrow we're planning to go out to one of the shopping malls (either O*U or The Cur*ve). It's been awhile since we went to the mall together. Not sure what we're gonna do there. Probably just walk around and then have lunch. On Sunday, Shah has to go meet a friend so maybe Maisarah and I will go out with my sister. We're planning to go to Ikea* since it's been ages since I've been there. I just love to look at the furniture and home accessories there while imagining how I'll decorate my future house but Shah is not too keen on furniture window-shopping. So, this will be the chance for me to head there. Plus, I'm longing for the Sweedish Meatballs.
Anyway, talking about home decor. Have I ever mentioned that sometimes before I sleep at night I will imagine how I will decorate our the house that we have bought? I can't wait to decorate our house once we get the keys and I have lots of ideas on how I will decorate each and every room. Since I was in the UK, i love to watch home decor shows and I always bought book and magazines related to home decor. And some times, when I'm bored with my PhD work, I would browse the Net for home decor pictures and save those that I like. So I can't wait to put all the things I learned from the TV shows, books and magazines into practise.
The first place I'm going to decorate is the kitchen. I'm torn between having an English country kitchen with all the wood cabinets and flowers or a modern contemporary kitchen with a marble or granite table top and stainless steel back splash. What I'm sure of is that I want a kitchen cabinet made of wood with built-in microwave and electric oven. My ideal kitchen would have a cooker placed on top of an island in the middle of the kitchen but that would not happen as the kitchen in our future house is not that big. But I'll definitely try to put in a breakfast bar. I also want a big fridge and am dreaming of having one with twin-doors but that would cost us a bomb. As it is, my dream kitchen cabinet may have already cost us an arm.
The next room that I like to imagine decorating is our bedroom. Our future bedroom in the house is huge! Well, huge for a terrace house anyway. There is even a sort of "walk-in closet" leading to the bathroom. So I am so going to have fun shopping for our wardrobes. I would love to have full wall-to-wall wardrobes with lots of hanging space and drawers. I also secretly would like to have a floor-to-ceiling shoe cabinet like what Carrie had Mr Big make in the SATC movie but my mom says that is not for us Asians since we dont wear our shoes in the house. So, I've got to find some where in the house where I can have a big shoe cabinet since I am a shoe addict and I want a nice home for all my shoes where thay can be displayed beautifully and not be put in boxes and cramped under the staircase any longer. As for the bed, we have decided that it should be King sized. And I am secretly hoping for an iron four-poster bed but a wood-framed bed is okay too. And I think there will be enough space in the room to place a day bed so that is Maisarah falls sick she can sleep with us in the room.
Well, I think that's enough for now. I'll write more on my dreams for our future house decor next time. I've got to go to bed and tonight while I lay in bed waiting to fall asleep, I'll imagine how I'm going to decorate the living room and upstairs family area. Sweet dreams!
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Holiday ends tomorrow
Boring!!!!! Tomorrow I'll have to go back to work. Luckily I have no classes on Monday. So I can start slow. Tomorrow I can prepare my lecture notes for the week and finish marking the test papers.
It's no fun going back to work after almost a week of no work and just play. I've been spending all my time with Maisarah. Most of the time was spent watching Bar*ney and chasing after her around the house. I'm not sure how she'll be on Monday as she has been very clingy to me this past week. I hope she'll be ok and will want to drink milk from the bottle. I also hope that my one week break from expresing milk has not affected my supply. Hopefully, I'll still be able to express a much milk as before for Maisarah's daily consumption. I've got 10 months to go, inayAllah, before I can decide to stop breastfeeding or not. I've been reading in a forum that it's ok to continue breastfeeding after the baby has reached 2 years old but my mom says that would be weird. I want Maisarah to continue getting the best milk available on earth but at the same time I want to teach Maisarah to sleep with out suckling. I guess I should have thought her that since she was small. But now she has gotten used to suckling on my b's in order to fall asleep. I'll have to work on this soon. But as for now, I'll just let her be.
Shah has almost fully recovered from his flu, alhamdulillah. He's now busy preparing for his work.
"He is very strong. he is the best guy on earth and I will buy him a PS3 as a present since he has been good all this while. His body is so buff at the moment , looking more like the Terminator. I know I am lucky to have a very handsome and buff hubby." ---> These were written by Shah when I went to get him a bowl of corn flakes. Actually, Shah has always been doing this whenever I am in the middle of writing a blog post or a word document and had to suddenly leave the computer to get him something. This time I've decided not to delete what he's written.
Anyway, he's been bugging me to buy him a PS3 ever since we received our year end bonus last week (Alhamdulillah finally!) and I'll be receiving my consultancy payment soon. Well Abang, we'll see ok? I want to get me some nice things with my hard earned money too. I am in dire need of new outfits for work. Unfortunately, the company decided to reward us with the bonus after the sale has ended. So I can't get more for less money. No fun!
Well, I'll have to find the time to go shopping. In the mean time, I've got to psych myself to get into the mood for work.
It's no fun going back to work after almost a week of no work and just play. I've been spending all my time with Maisarah. Most of the time was spent watching Bar*ney and chasing after her around the house. I'm not sure how she'll be on Monday as she has been very clingy to me this past week. I hope she'll be ok and will want to drink milk from the bottle. I also hope that my one week break from expresing milk has not affected my supply. Hopefully, I'll still be able to express a much milk as before for Maisarah's daily consumption. I've got 10 months to go, inayAllah, before I can decide to stop breastfeeding or not. I've been reading in a forum that it's ok to continue breastfeeding after the baby has reached 2 years old but my mom says that would be weird. I want Maisarah to continue getting the best milk available on earth but at the same time I want to teach Maisarah to sleep with out suckling. I guess I should have thought her that since she was small. But now she has gotten used to suckling on my b's in order to fall asleep. I'll have to work on this soon. But as for now, I'll just let her be.
Shah has almost fully recovered from his flu, alhamdulillah. He's now busy preparing for his work.
"He is very strong. he is the best guy on earth and I will buy him a PS3 as a present since he has been good all this while. His body is so buff at the moment , looking more like the Terminator. I know I am lucky to have a very handsome and buff hubby." ---> These were written by Shah when I went to get him a bowl of corn flakes. Actually, Shah has always been doing this whenever I am in the middle of writing a blog post or a word document and had to suddenly leave the computer to get him something. This time I've decided not to delete what he's written.
Anyway, he's been bugging me to buy him a PS3 ever since we received our year end bonus last week (Alhamdulillah finally!) and I'll be receiving my consultancy payment soon. Well Abang, we'll see ok? I want to get me some nice things with my hard earned money too. I am in dire need of new outfits for work. Unfortunately, the company decided to reward us with the bonus after the sale has ended. So I can't get more for less money. No fun!
Well, I'll have to find the time to go shopping. In the mean time, I've got to psych myself to get into the mood for work.
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