Izma Humaira is 2!!!

Huhuhu loooonnngggg time no write one. But this month must write something sempena birthday month of sweet lil' Izma Humaira :) Yeah her birthday was on 8 December but this super duper busy bee mama (tak tau busy buat mende punnn) was totally forgot about the existence of this blog (same goes for the other blog so no offense). It's not you bloggy, it's totally me, myself and I.

Nevertheless we didn't forget the birthday though so that's good right!!! And we didn't forget to celebrate!!! Although there was no official birthday party for her this year, we had celebrated with both families and that lucky girl got herself not one, not two, but THREE birthday cakes when she is only 2!!! Lucky you my cutie lil' pie ;)

I'm so lucky right mama?

-The birthday girl on 08/12/2011-

Ok2 now let us drool over the cakes shall we?

The first cake on 8th December:

From yours truly n hubby, bought at Isetan Supermarket. Choc banana cake with choc-dipped strawberries on top. One of the strawberries was gone right after I took this pic ;p

Upacara meniup lilin

Upacara memotong kek

The second cake was bought by her uwan at Bangi. Another upacara meniup lilin and memotong kek during the weekends. But sadly I forgot to took the picture of the beautiful cake. Hubby did take some pictures though. I'll get from him and upload the pics here (tapi tak janji tauuuu...maybe i'll do that next year...heyyy next year is just around the corner ya ;p)

Move to to the third cake also during the weekend. No upacara meniup lilin or memotong kek. Just mengambil gambar kek dan memakan kek...those cute cuppies are really yummylicious!!! Bought the cuppies from hubby's cousin who is a doctor but really good at baking cuppies and cakes. Dah2 byk ckp lak...jommmm tgk the pics...drooling~~~

Cute cuppies with Upin & Ipin theme requested by the birthday girl. Thanks to Kak Tini for the pretty and tasty cuppies :)

She was so excited when she saw her favorite character on the cuppies and demanded to eat them right away in the car...huhu terpaksa la ckp 'mkn kat umah wan ye nnt...dah dekat nak sampai dah ni..' (walaupun perjalanan masih jauh ;p)

'Saya suka! Saya suka!'

(ikut nada Mei Mei dlm Upin & Ipin)

And yes the cuppies are all yummy as they look. The cake is moist chocolate cake and the icing is butter cream, not so sweet, just nice :)

So that's all we have for our beloved daughter's birthday this year. Oh one more thing the birthday girl got herself some pressies as well. Two dresses from both opah and wan, a whiteboard set complete with numbers and alphabets magnets (tak tau name ape) from Pak Ngah and a pink tent with balls from mama & ayah :) But for now no space yet to set up the tent...hehehe wait until we move to new house la. For the time being she is excited to play with the 50 colourful balls all over the house....weee~~~

So happy second birthday sayang!!! We love u soooooo much!!! Semoga menjadi anak mama & ayah yang solehah...amin... ;)

 

Izma Dictionary and Thesaurus

Izma turned exactly 18 months last Wednesday. Not much progress on her height and weight but her vocabulary becomes wider and wider everyday. She surprises us almost everyday with a new word. It's so true they say that baby's brain is like a sponge absorbing everything they can and register it there immediately. So be extra careful next time you want to say something not good in front of your babies. They sure pick them up quickly and next time you know they say those words to you back or worse, to other people. Confirm time tu malu nak mengaku anak ;p

It's so exciting seeing her developing her verbal skill and hence I want to record all her vocabularies as of now. So that next time you see her and she's blabbering alien language at you, you'll know what she means. I'm one of the experts now :) So here we go, Izma Dictionary and Thesaurus, go make a copy before you see her ;p

Starts with the best la kan:

Mama = Mama (yeay me! :))
Yah = Ayah
Dik/Cu = My youngest sister; she follows everyone calling her 'adik' ;p but when asked mana Cu?, she'll point to my sister and said 'Cu'
Pah = Opah
Tuk = Atuk (both sides)
Wa = Wan (my MIL)
Nak = Nak/Want
Ak = Tak nak/ don't want
Shik = Nasik/ rice
Shik mak = Nasik lemak (her favorite!)
Ti = Roti
Uah = Buah (most favourite!!!)
Shu = Susu/ milk or her kasut/ shoes :) - this can be confusing sometimes
Ba = Bam (baring)
Jo = Jom
Pu = Lampu
Dah = Dah
Hot = Panas/ pedas (mama yg kejam suka bagi dia mkn benda pedas ;p) And it looks like this is the only English word in her vocab as of now in the list. A true Malaysian.
Two = Two
Ti = Three
Four = Four
Juk = Sejuk
Nini = Nenen ;p
Be = Bird
Fish = Fish
Cat = Cat
Dog = Dog
Bit = Rabbit
Bo = Dibo
Do = Tido

Ok that's all I can think of right now. Yeah most of them are single phrase except her favourite 'shik mak'...hehe it's so fun hearing her saying all those words. So cute! :) Definitely need to record all these down and remember the moment :))

The big girl :)

It's a Sunday

And I can't believe I have time to write s'thing here on a Sunday! Actually the main reason that I have all the time in the world on this particular Sunday is because hubby is currently offshore (sob...sob...) and Izma is already asleep and I didn't join her as I usually do because I already got a lot of sleep this afternoon. Long nice nap...as I said I have all the time in the world :)

It's 12 days to go before hubby came home and we already missed him terribly. But happy today as we saw him at Skype just now :) But still long way to go before we can see him physically. Ok2 enough whining ;p

Well I don't have any specific topic or story to tell today but feel guilty of abandoning this space for so long (yes, same old, same old ;p). I'm having my ACD in ONE WEEK and I'm supposed to use this free weekend to study but you know what happened? I forgot! And now that I remember that I'm supposed to study, it's too late already!!!huhu...so tomorrow I'll have meeting in the morning, want to settle a few administrative work in the afternoon and there goes my Monday. Tuesday is a public holiday. So I got Wednesday until Friday to cover everything. Just forget the next weekends ya since we all know what happened this weekend ;p Waaaa I don't want to go to ACD!!!

And also just now hubby asked me to start the preparation for Izma's first birthday party which will be tentatively on 19th December because that's the only time my in laws are available until next year. Where do I start? And I have to prepare for my ACD as well (do I? ;p) And I have to discuss on the birthday party with my MIL...over the phone. I think I can only start doing the preparation only after my ACD or else I won't be studying at all because preparing a birthday party is so much more fun, right??? Really can't wait to get over my ACD and start surfing the net for the Barbie birthday cake (Izma don't have any Barbie doll yet and she doesn't even know what Barbie is but who cares right? Barbie doll cake is so adorable, no? Hehe mama yang lebih2 ni...kasi can la while she still couldn't pick her own birthday cake kan...kan...)

But whatever it is, I still want to make a super duper small birthday party on her actual birthday which will consists of Izma, myself, her Opah, her Cu and a little birthday cake which I plan to buy at Cake Sense on my way back from work. Nyum2...which cake to buy eh? Cheese cake or moist chocolate cake? Or...both? Haha this is actually for myself but I promise that the birthday girl will have a piece of it. A little super duper tiny piece...and the rest is ours...yeah!!!!

Ok lah enough on my imaginary birthday cake. I'll try to make a special entry for my little darling angel during her birthday soon. I hope I can make it...right on her first birthday. Oh my baby girl is almost 1!!! It feels like only yesterday we set eyes on her for the first time...at 5.55pm on 8th December 2009...

December 8, 2009

And 9 months later...

September 8, 2010

A big girl!!!

Why I choose 9 months later? Because that's the lattest Izma's pic that we took on an 8th...just for the dramatic effect of saying, '_ months later...', so that the pic is really taken on her monthly birthday...haha whatever la. Actually I can just pick any latest pic of her and say 11 moths later... You won't know if it's true right? Ok2 enough with all those dramatic effect...the point is my tiny little girl had become a big girl now!!! And I'm falling in love with her everyday!!! And with her ayah too *wink*



of debu and sawang gugugaga

Fuh2 shoh2 sume debu and sawang yg telah hinggap at my blog nih. Sian die dah lame tuannye tak berkunjung tiba. And also on that note rase nak tulis bahase kebangsaan la this time around. Bahase kebangsaan yg telah di'pasar'kan to be exact ;p Kata my thinking language is my mother's tongue kan. Mmg ahli keluarga most of the time menggunakan bahase pasar tersebut. Enough on that please....

Ok la actually saje je nak tulis something here coz nak rasmikan my new mouse, courtesy of beloved hubby. Tikus takde ekor tau. Best wooo...hehe thanks a lot dear! Cam la tulis blog nih byk pakai mouse kan, dan2 tulis sbb nak rasmikan mouse. Whatever la kan.

So a lot had happened since last time i wuz ere (hehe dah lame x jumpe phrase 'i wuz ere' ni which is so famous at my high school...i wuz ere is everywhere...haha perasan cool btul la sape2 yg mengvandalismekan kawasan sekolah dgn perkataan tersebut ;p) Whatever it is as I mentioned a lot had happened...but...nothing really interesting la actually. But not to record what had happened pun cam x best jugak especially on that lil' girl's development. To name a few, had I mention that she had her first tooth already? And the second as well? I don't think I did. And that just one thing kan. There are sooooo much to update la....waaa where to start eh?

It's ok la, let's do it slowly. Ok we shall start with her development la before I forgot everything. Eh anyway what happen to my bahase jiwa bangsa eh? Suddenly my thinking language dah switch to english la pulok. But still in 'pasar' category la. Or rojak. That suit better. My rojak manglish ;p Ok2 back to topic, Izma's development (that I can recall as of now la ye):

• Can stand by herself when berpaut to furniture or my kaki and boleh tawaf meja 7 pusingan lengkap (dpt gak tekan tikus itu sbb nak letak bullet kan...syok woo ;p)
• Loves to eat everything - so far in her radar right now mostly rice, chicken, beef, carrot, pumpkin, spinach, various fruits, bread - and she loves all of them, no exception
• Her weight is currently around 9kg++
• Call me mama or emy!!!!! selambe la dak kecik ni panggil I emy...ni sure ikut ayah and opah die panggil...hehe
• Sudah menunjukkan kegarangannye - marah if retreat anything she's holding and pandai pukul org kalo marah...and also pandai merajuk...cair sume org ;p
• Susah nak habiskan susu sebotol pun - senang distract with everything around her and she prefers to eat than drink milk - dah boring kut....asyik2 susu, asyik2 susu...hehe
• Tido lintang pukang - abis conquer satu katil - most of the time I yg hampir2 nak jatuh katil kene tolak ngan dak kecik tu...hehe (note: ayah, we need a bigger katil ;p)
• Dah byk ckp bebel2 - x kisah ade org layan or not die tetap bebel...hehe
• Likes to say fish...tunjuk bird sebut fish, tunjuk car sebut fish jugak...i think it's time to feed her fish kut...ikan is not part of her diet yet...ok2 Izma, I got the message...will do that soon ye :)
• Suke sgt joget2 goyang badan n bum bile dgr lagu kat TV...sungguh2 joget especially iklan mc donalds spicy chicken macdeluxe tu...awal2 dgr goyang2 bum, pastu masuk part yg rap2 tu abis satu badan goyang...haha so cute!!!! ish2 mane blaja nih Izma ;p
• Merangkak dah laju dan maju...hehe first time merangkak on 3rd raya @ Bluewave Hotel JB and ayah die yg first witness...saje nak tunjuk skill kat ayah pulak...selalu asyik terlepas je her milestone kan sbb dok jauh

Ok can't think of any other things yet for now. Actually there are tonnes of them but can't really recall. Nanti kalau dah ingat I'll update lagi dan lagi dan lagi. Hmm best pulok tulis bahase ibunda nih. Laju je saye menaip. Kalo tulis omputih, taip2 delete sbb cam x sedap je ayat. Pastu tulis and delete lagi. Asyik rase something wrong je. But if camni main jalan je. No turning back. Kate pasar and rojak kan. Bedal je la...hehe

Btw I'm on my way to a transformation plan....fuiyooo nak jadik transformer ke ape nih ;p
That one I'll update later la if that plan works well. I hope so la. It will be starting next Monday insyaAllah. Can't wait la. Suppose to be today but takde rezeki hari ni. It's ok, I'll wait patiently and excitedly. Fuiyoo cam suspen kan ape bende la ni...hehe nothing big pun la actually but if the result is really inspiring then I'll share it here. So wish me luck eh...hehe cam nak gi interview lak nak wish gud luck ;p

Ok gtg nak gi mkn lapalala~~~

Apa ada di JB?

Budak debab dan tembam ini sekarang berada di JB. Lagi sekali setelah berkali-kali berada di JB. Berat dia adalah 7.9kg sekarang. Ok tak ada kena mengena ;p

8 months on 8.8

Izma is exactly 8 months today, on 8th August 2010. 8 on 8.8. Nice number right 888 ;p
Happy 8 months birthday darling! Mmmuahhhh!!!!

Ok itu je nak cerita. Bye! ;p

(It's 20 minutes to 9th August. Fuh seb baik sempat tulis this on 8.8. Ok enough on this 888 thingy Emy! Good night everyone. Tomorrow is Monday. In 20 minutes. Not nice.)

Izma Poppins and The Magic Umbrella

Izma is currently sooo obsess with her ayah's Timberland black umbrella. Introducing Izma Poppins...

Mama and Izma berposing dgn payung Ayah. Payung mesti pegang yer...

Ok ni Izma posing bersungguh-sungguh

Ni Mama pulak posing...Izma malas nak layan...panas tuuu

Sian Ayah pegang payung berat...meh Izma tolong

Pegang jgn tak pegang ;p

But seriously she's really obsess with that umbrella. She'll be soo excited whenever we want to open that umbrella and insist to hold it. And she'll scream and cry when we take the umbrella from her...huhuhu Izma, Izma, mainan ada byk tapi payung jugak yg dia suke main ;p

The Sitting Sequel

Hi all! I think I can sit already...see...see...

Steady...

Eh...why I feel senget2 one

Alamak...gelongsor pulak ni...cannot control myself already

Mama help!!! Tolonggg...

Ok I think I cannot sit yet laa...huhu...

She's 7...

…months yesterday! How time flies! At times I just want her to stay at 6 months forever because she’s so cute at that time. But now even more cuter, I wish she stays being 7 months forever (and mama also can stay at age 2* forever – still number 2 at the front ya ;p). But there are also times that I can’t wait for her to be a toddler and start talking and keep asking me a lot of questions. Hehe you wish! And most of the times I actually can’t wait to be able to go shopping with her! How nice…but whatever it is for now I just want to enjoy watching her grow in front of my eyes J

Anyways it’s been a while since I update anything on Izma’s progress so far. So let’s do that now shall we? Where do we start? Let’s start with thing that progress a lot since a couple of months before. Her weight! Last weekend we checked, it’s already 7.35kg! Waa so chubby la this girl…hehe we got to check her weight last weekend when we took her to see pediatrician at Az-Zahra for her flu and rashes. It turned out that she was infected with viral fever. This is the first time I heard of this type of fever. According to the pedi, it is normal for babies between 6 months to 1 year to have this viral fever. It will start with a normal fever with a slightly high temperature, then as the fever go away, the rashes will come in starting from at the face then body and then will spread to the leg. At this time the baby will be really uncomfortable with his/her body which results in crankiness and need to be held all the time. This explains on Izma’s behavior as soon as her fever gone. My mom said during the day she was very cranky and my mom can’t be away from her even for a second. And my mom also had to hold and carried her most of the time. Pity them, both my mom and Izma…huhu but Alhamdulillah she’s getting better now eventhough her flu is still not fully gone and her voice is ‘serak’ now. She sounds like Ella now ;p By the way we’ll get to see if she gains any weight since last week next Monday when we see her pedi for her influenza jab. And also to see how tall she is now J

Ok la let’s move on. What else update to share? Hmm let’s recap on her diet progress now. The major progress is she’s eating rice now! She loves her rice porridge so much and eats a lot!! Pandai mama masak! Yeay me! ;p

So she started eating rice porridge which I mix with carrots and blend. Then sprinkle some anchovies which I fried without oil and blend. Yummy!!! After her main meal of the porridge, she’ll have some dessert which is fruit puree. Here are the list of food that she had eaten according to the sequence (ceh ;p):

• Pear
• Apple
• Carrot
• Potato
• Rice
• Anchovies
• Pumpkin
• Sweet potato
• China pear (buah lai – sukati je bagi name china pear ;p)

I plan to introduce her to Mr Chicken this weekend. Hope she’ll love it. Introducing her to Mr Chicken is not by bringing her to KFC ye ayah ;p That will be way down on the above list. As in way way way way way down. Or maybe won’t ever make it to the list…haha I want to make her chicken porridge with potato tonight. Nyum nyum. That will be her meal for the next 1 week 3 days (mama yg malas ;p). Oh and also my plan to also introduce her to Miss Banana…nyum…nyum…let’s make banana shake for her!

Enough on the weight and diet (they are interrelated, no?), let’s see how she grows physically in terms of her motor development (ni konon2 peidatrician terms la ;p). As of now she’s still on her ‘guling-guling’ activity most of the time but verbally I think she had developed quite a number of different sounds. She will say ma or ma ma ma when she sees me and say ba ba or abba when she sees her ayah. Cute kan? Kan? Kan? And she says o pa too for her Opah. And my favorite one is when she’s actually talking with me on the phone. During the day I usually call my mom after lunch hour then Izma will know that I’m calling. She’ll insist to ‘talk’ with me and when I call her name she’ll respond back with her baby talk…hehe cuteness!!!

Well, apart from that I think there’s not major changes except that her hair grows longer by DAY! We cut them twice already…huhu so long and thick. Tak lama lagi boleh buat pokok kelapa ;)

We are just happy and grateful that she’s healthy and whenever she’s sick it’s not that serious. Alhamdulillah…so Izma darling, just stay cute and healthy ok! Just be you! (quoting from cerita Parenthood ;p)

i said potato, u said no no no

Izma on her first potato feeding...

Erkk what is this? Why the taste not sweet one?

I don't want to eat this pls...let me have my sweet pear or apple...don't want potato...sob~sob~

Sedihnye dia kena makan potato...izma...izma...you are such a sweet tooth my sweetheart~~~

My BF journey...

Ermm BF is not BoyFriend ya…I dah x main la boyfren2 ni…hihi

In this case BF = BreastFeeding ya. Actually it’s been ages since I have this topic in mind and wanted to record my journey which had been almost 6 months now, Alhamdulillah although not exclusively and plan to proceed as long as I can InsyaAllah…but it’s also been ages since I’ve put any entry in here…hehe I’m very amaze on those working mothers with babies who manage to update their blog frequently. How do you guys do it? Please share. As for me, I think I don’t even have a minute to spare to write anything here, including weekends when hubby is around. Hopefully this will NOT be the end of my blog. I hope it will not die just like that or die gracefully…haha whichever way it is, please don’t die my dear blog…hehe

So much for the opening babbling. Enough on that, let’s keep this blog alive. So back to my BF topic, what to share? Well, I’ve been breastfeeding my little princess Izma since she was born. But back then there’s not much milk or maybe no milk at all? I don’t know. I’m thankful that Izma can really suck the moment she latched on me although not properly latch but she knew what to do with that thing in her mouth…hehe… For the first few days, she was sucking on my nipple and not on the entire areola (area around the nipple) so my nipples were really hurt due to the wrong latching. And also I think she kept sucking harder because she didn’t get the milk and really hungry. So when she was not satisfied after our breastfeeding session, we sent her to nursery for the nurse to feed her formula milk (they use Enfalac @ PCMC).

After a few consultation sessions with the nurses @ PCMC and I think there were a few of them who are also lactation counselors, they advised me to use nipple shield for my cracked nipples. They provide me one pair of Medela nipple shield and also Medela nipple cream (Purelan 100) which I’m supposed to pay (total of RM120) but somehow somebody forgot to put it on my bills and end up I got them for free! Weee~~~~ lucky me! :)

Anyways that nipple shield pair were very helpful. I can continue bf Izma despite the cracked nipples and by continue bf her, my milk supply increased tremendously (wah2 ;p) due to the stimulation from Izma’s sucking. I used the nipple shield for about 3 to 4 weeks until my nipples fully healed and after that I just direct bf Izma. It was very very very tough though at first to get Izma to properly latch without the nipple shield. We had to try latching for few times on every bf session and it can be really frustrating sometimes.

However after about 6 weeks, our bf activities had been fully established and we became expert at it already (we means Izma and I and ayah too who helped us a lot on this :)). By this time I really can appreciate the beauty of bf and somehow I think ayah benefited a lot from this. He doesn’t have to wake up in the middle of the night to prepare milk and doesn’t have to feed Izma as it had to be me all the time :). But as Izma became so attached to her normal milk supply, it became harder to train her to feed from the bottles when I’m almost finishing my maternity leave. It was a really a challenge.
A lot of ‘bersilat’ session on every bottle feeding.
A lot of tears from Izma (and myself actually ;p).
A lot of trial and error of different types of teats.
A lot of formula milk brand…well not a lot la, only 2…hehe we tried Enfalac A+ and Isomil soy based.
I don’t have EBM (expressed breast milk) stock hence the using of formula milk. And also to train Izma to drink the formula if my EBM is not enough once I started working (which is indeed the case).
Cut the story short, when I started working, my breastpumping journey starts. I pumped 3 times a day during working hours at 9 am, 12 pm and 3 pm. At first I only managed to get max 2oz per session or total of 6oz per day. So little and that time Izma actually drank a lot, around 12oz during the day when I’m at office. I was so depressed with my milk supply. I ate a lot of so called milk stimulation food i.e.:
- Dried longan
- Red date (tried only once, not my taste)
- Fenugreek (rebus, drink 3 big spoons with instant oat drink)
- Milkmaid tea
- Oat
- Habbatus sauda’
- Rice (a lot la of course, everyday )
- Pil ASI
And guess which one worked best for me? The winner is pil ASI! Hehe…well, not really significant increases on my milk supply, but I can consistently maintained around 12oz per day (I add another pumping session before going to sleep at around 11pm).

And since then I managed to maintain my supply minimum 9oz per day which are enough for 3 feedings. The serving amount of 1 feeding of EBM is maintained between 3oz to 3.5oz due to the fat characteristic changes in breastmilk which will suit baby’s age. However her formula feeding serving amount need to be increased from 3oz to 4oz to satisfy the growing baby (fuiyoo explanation cam doctor lak ;p).

So that are basically part of my BF journey which I’m still riding on and plan to continue this beautiful journey as long as I can (for my case I think until my milk dries up which I think will not be a big problem~~~).

And at this very moment I’m so excited to start solid feeding for Izma on her 6th month birthday next week! Thrill thrill thrill! Bought a new blender for her food already ;) Also already bought the food storage containers and spoons (BPA free). I want to introduce homemade food first before introducing instant rice cereal or baby rusks. As much as I want to give her homemade food only, I think it is also important for her to get used to those ‘instant’ baby food so that we can travel long distance without worrying on Izma’s food if we don’t manage to prepare the food. Just get her to taste a little bit of those instant food. But homemade food is the priority :)

I think I want to share the solid journey in next entry la. Which can be a few weeks (or months ;p) from now. Till then toodles for now. Want to collect all those yummy baby food recipes! ;)

we're in JB y'all!!!~again~

Yup2 we're in JB again. This time with a full car. As in really full. Brought along Izma's babysitterS a.k.a. her opah and cu. This time is on my business trip so I can book another room for opah and cu. Compared to the last time we came here, this time's trip is more challenging and tiresome. First, it was a long weekend for M'sia and S'pore due to Wesak Day so the traffic was quite heavy on the PLUS highway heading south. Most of them were S'pore cars. The usual 4-hour journey took around 5 hours++. All the R&R were full including the small Simpang Renggam R&R. It feels like driving during raya holidays (ceh macam la I yg drive ;p).

And secondly, our journey was stressful due to Izma's screaming in the car. She felt really bored I guess because cannot guling2 in the car and started screaming (very loud ya!) all the way from the toll plaza exit at JB until Bluewave Hotel car park. She stopped screaming once I carry her out from the car. Suddenly she became a very good girl...and very happy! Fuhh I should wished that she slept through the journey...hehe luckily she managed to sleep around 3 hours in the car :)

Once in the hotel, she was very excited to be laid down to the huge comfy bed. Started guling2 on the bed like she's in heaven...hehe lepas gian tak dapat guling2 dlm car. And last night she slept like a baby (she seldom does this eventhough she's really a baby...haha). But even then she still had her 'playtime' at 4am, guling2 by herself and gooing herself because mama and ayah had already passed out. Then she slept back until 6.30 am! Nice bed ye Izma. Let's ask ayah to buy one for us :)

So all in all so far so good. Whatever it is I'm just thrill because we're going to spend the whole of this week with ayah!!!!! Bestest ever! Best best best!

Don’t grow too fast dear…

Wow our dearest little izma is 4 months today! In a blink of an eye! That tiny baby had turned into a chubby bubbly baby now :) yup bubbly with her saliva ;p

Anyways I have a lot to write actually on my journey of 4-month motherhood and parenthood. It’s a totally different path to walk through compared to my single mingle life and together-gether-with-hubby-only life. Please do ignore the second last phrase if you don’t understand it because I also don’t.haha ;p

Ok la I think I want to begin with what comes into my mind first. Ok now the second thought already comes also. But I’ll still start with the first thought. First come, first serve. Whatever. What I really want to record here is my daily schedule as a mama to a 4-month old baby. Basically I adapted this schedule since I started working 2 months ago. So far this routine is still valid and I want to record this as my future reference. But mind you, the ‘future’ will not be in the near future ya ;p ok2 enough with the babble babbling. So now I’m sharing my daily routine here…

5 am :
Wake up and straight to shower (however this depends on that little girl; if she joins me waking up then I have to ‘bribe’ her with her ever love breastfeeding session so that she can drift back to sleep…hehe; this can takes up to 30 mins so my shower session can be in between 5-5.30 am…pjg lak bebel ;p)
5.30 am:
Finish my shower, put on my contact lens, put toner on my face, join izma to sleep if she haven’t wake up yet by this time
6 am:
Perform my Subuh prayer
6.05 am (laju giler solat ;p):
Kacau2 izma to wake her up for her morning breastfeeding session; change her diaper, bf her for about half an hour
6.35 am:
Get ready for work, get dress, basic make up (will put on lipstick in the car…hehe multitasking ;p), ready all my breastpump accessories
6.45 am:
Start my car engine, carry izma to walk2 a little bit outside the house n play2 with her
6.55 am (pergghhh detail x ingat):
Go to work
7.45 am:
Reach office, breakfast, check email, bla bla bla ;p
9 am:
First breastpumping session
12 pm:
Second breastpumping session
3 pm:
Third breastpumping session
5 pm (sharp):
Out of office
6 – 6.30 pm:
Reach home, put EBM (expressed breast milk) in fridge, change clothes, watch akasia with izma (watched Cinta Balqis, Na O Mei and currently watching Adamaya :))and concurrently bf her (time ni mmg lepas gian dak kecik tu; bersungguh2 walaupun kenyang…hehe sian die sehari suntuk kene minum botol)
7.45 pm:
Solat Maghrib and let izma play by herself with mr crab, mr Lamaze, etc.
8 pm:
Bf izma and usually this is the ‘sleeping’ feeding; she usually sleeps by 8.30 or 9 pm.
10 pm (terjoin izma tido skali lak):
Wake up, clean izma’s bottles, my breastpump accessories, sterilize bottles, iron clothes for the next day, solat Isyak
11 pm:
Final breastpumping session for the day (if I’m rajin, I’ll have another bp session at around 2 ami which is very rare case ;p)
2 am:
Izma wakes up for her feeding session
4 am:
Another feeding session

Fuhhhh what a day! And night too! Waaa writing the routine also already tiring. Just imagine how tired I am going through this routine. Well, I guess that’s the price of being a mother. You asked for it in the first place right? Yup, I asked for it. And I’m actually loving every second of it :) but it’ll be so much easier if only hubby is around during weekdays :( it’s not that I can’t handle izma all by myself but I just pity her when she has to play with herself when I’m performing my prayers or when I have to run few things…sian die xde org layan…

Anyways that’s how it is for now. It is still manageable since I can just put izma anywhere without worrying her rolling over the bed as she’s still can’t move much. Wait until she can turn her body and rolling2 then I have to put some extra measures. Have to build pillow wall around her…huhu
Ok lah enough on that, now the second thing I want to share on Izma’s development so far:
Exactly at 4 months:
- Can turn herself at one side; had tried turn her full waist-down part body; sometimes managed to fully turn herself but one hand will still stuck under her body – can lift her head a little in this position but not for long :)
- Drink about 18 oz per day during the day – usually 11 to 12 oz from my milk and top up another 6 oz Enfalac – really hope can fully bf her :( it’s ok InsyaAllah ada rezeki can full bf her brothers and sisters later (erkk cam ramai je brotherS and sisterS ;p)
- Can recognizes familiar faces esp. my face as the main delicious milk supplier, her beloved ayah, her opah, her wan, atuk, mak su, cu…rasa pak ngah’s face dah lupa kut since dah almost 1 month tak jumpa…hehe
- Put everything in her hands into her mouth – if there’s nothing in her hands, she’ll put her hands in her mouth and her most favorite part is her thumb! Both thumbs…nyum2
- Will scream when left unattended for a long time; long time = 5 mins! Manja sungguh kene org layan all the time
- Smiles a lot! So cute!!!!! :))
- Very happy when someone changes her diaper
- Loveeeeee bath time!
will add some more if I remember anything else :)

sleeping beauty

The little princess sleeps peacefully...dan penuh bergaya :)



i surrender

best la car seat ni...zzzzzzz

turn right

then turn left


saya nak tanye soalan!

do not disturb

anak ayah :)

i'm 1 day old y'all

akikah on 7 feb 2010 update

Nothing much to update actually on the izma's akikah ceremony. A picture speaks a thousand words right? So let's have the pictures do the speaking ;p (sebenarnye so lazy to write long2 coz i'm using my hp ni blogging :p)

my pretty akikah dress bought by ayah dear...love it!!!

Izma managed to stay in that beautiful dress from around 11 am until 2 pm. Then a bit rimas2 so we changed her into another nice Lovely Lace dress. I don't have the piccas in my hp. Have to save from facebook later and put some here. We love love love the Lovely Lace dresses and ayah actually bought another 2 dresses after the kenduri...hihi later have to buy a few for raya as well :)

we're in JB y'all!!!

Yup2 we're currently in JB and yesterday was the longest journey for the lil' girl. Tak sampai 2 months old tapi dah jalan jauh2 ni. We managed to put her in her new green car seat (I loike!!!) for only 1 hour and for the rest of the trip, I'm her car seat (+ of course milk supplier ;p).

As for the first day here today, I think she's adapting to ayah's room here. Just the two of us when ayah goes to work. Luckily we brought along her 'mr. crab'...hehe that toy of her can keep her occupied for about 15 minutes, which leaves me enough time to take a shower...haha yeah2 i know 'mandi kambing' ;p. I'll get a proper shower once ayah is back ok!

izma playing with Mr Crab


Oh right now everyone is busy preparing for her kenduri akikah a.k.a. kenduri kawin izma bak kata wan dia...hihi :) n last saturday ayah bought her a beautiful dress for the ocsasion, complete with matching socks and headband. Very very nice and lovely. Must snap a lot of piccas next sunday :)

Ok2 she's getting cranky now. Can't write long2 one. Till next time y'all. Hopefully I can upload the akikah piccas for my next entry...