Thanks, Aunty Neer.

:: Dina and Dina's name frame ::
Thanks for the gift, Aunty Neer! We love you.

Dina's mom's daily routine..

5am (or sometimes 6am or 7am) :

Breastfeed Dina, if lucky she will fall back to sleep and i can get ready for work. if not, dina will wake up and i will bring her downstairs to sleep or watch her fav PlayHouse Disney cartoons. i will then get ready while Nor will watch over Dina.

7.30am:
Drive to work (PP will send Dina and Nor to Tok Mummy's house in PJ).

8.30am-6.30pm:
WORK WORK WORK ..happily.

7.00pm:
Arrive home. Will usually cook dinner for PP and myself. Dinner will be mostly pasta or mee sup. otherwise will buy chapati at Restoren Ismail TTDI on the way home from work. Quickly take a shower and eat dinner first before PP comes home with Dina.

8.00pm:
PPP arrives home and i will play with Dina till about 9pm.

9.00pm:
This is Dina's bedtime. Of late, Dina sleeps later than usual so i ask my maid not to put Dina to sleep after 4pm at Tok Mummy's hse. This way Dina will go to bed on time. i will take her up to my bed adn breastfeed her till she dozes off, to which i will doze off too. Yes, dina sleeps with me.

2.00am the nxt day (or 3am):
Dina wants her shushu (i give her my boobs) and both us go back to sleep.


The routine repeats almost like clockwork for 5 days a week. Weekends Dina get to play longer and sleep later than usual. and i can get more shut eye in the mornings....


Life goes on..... till the next baby comes. God knows how things would be then...

Kids Sports Time!!!

Yes, we finally got to go to Kids Sports at OU. Neer and family joined us again..yayy! we started with the smaller ball playing area.... apa lagi, dina was ecstatic dapat main main...

:: "Eeee...papa, why eggs nie warna merah biru kuning semuaa ??"::

:: Emmil: "ello ello...apa tgk2 ni aa! nie tempat main saya punya ok!
Awak nak main, awak kena pakai pampers ok."::


:: on the horsey too! ::

Then we went to the bigger ball playin area... i think either Dina was sleepy or overwhelmed by the sea of balls there.. :)) pic below.. it took her awhile to snap out of it actually....

:: "...mama... can i just sleep here coz i'm stuck..!" ::


:: haa yg nampak kepala jer tu is kepala emmil ... thanks to tok mummy, dina pon mula lah start pandai main dgn bola2 tu...emmil dah pro dah...boleh jalan ehehe::

:: gamba agak blurred but here, dina was so gumbiraaa!!!::

:: jeng-jeng...fast learner dina - aksi kuak dada semi-pro....::


and last but not least... a trip to the playground wont be complete without sliding down the slides...
:: Dina: "mama yg seronok lebih... dina tak rasa apa 2 ponnn"::

:: dina feeling so excited after coming down the slide... she went around, up the steps with the help of tok mummy and down the slide with the help of papa... and repeated this for about 10 times! we now know what she likes lah...::

Pheww!! I can say that me and papaphoop yg peluh2 lebeh... seronok that we got to spend time with emmil and all... penat gak layan sorang nie... belum lagi ramai tuh ..errrkkk....


but as they say...

A Happy Family Creates A Happy Child.

insyaallah...


p.s. cant wait till Nia, Sophie and Yeyen to join us....

Dinner at Popeye's

saturday, 24 Jan 2009 -

around 7 pm-ish... went to OU with the aim of bringing Dina to Kid Sport Station... then called SIL Neer to see if Emmil would like to join us... seemed that they were having dinner at the new Popeye's outlet in TTDI... so oklah boleh join sekali mkn with tok mummy, tok daddy and emmil's family...

:: ...look mum, they dont serve fried popeye... the only have fried chicken !! it's a SCAM!...::

::.... dina with her new look - ala Emmil...hehe::

::emmil and dina - dina imitating a "popeye" look::

:: "Do i look like you, tok mummy?" ::

nak jugak post the pic above... altho a bit blurry - dina giving her cutest smile for the camera with tok mummy...

oh yess... dina has a cute habit now... tell her to show you a 'cute face' and she will flash you a cute face! like pic above..hehe.. she knows she looks cute lahh


later went to OU, but to our surprise, kids sports dah tutup...closes at 8pm, and we were a bit late lor... so pegilah pusing2 kat Toys R Us with the rest...

:: "sorry encik... mak kata salesman takleh masuk rumah"::

Dina and Sophie

::Having fun with baby Sophie::

:: After saying... 'Aaay-yyaangg Fi-fie'..::

::big baby...small baby::


::look sophie, i have a silver bell anklet.. you need to get this too !::

::mischievous smile::


ps. dina can celebrate her birthday witrh sophie and nia every year ok.... meriah sikit... :)

lovely picnic day......

this is a much backdated post... the day we had a small pcinic at aunty nana's condo...pool party la konon...but tak swim pon..heheh..

for the full report..go here (thanks Aunty Neer :))

So i decided to make buffalo wings.. not really the one you can find at Chilli's...but more of honeyed chicken wings...

Basic ingredients:

Chicken wings (got me frozen ones as fresh ones were sold out at Giant)
Bbq sauce (kraft's would do)
Honey

Method:

Marinate wings in the sauce and honey overnight. bake at 200C for 45 mins and a quick 5 more mins at a higher temp for that extra roast. they should look like pic below:


pic courtesy of Aunty Neer again... ;)
also some pics of the activities ....

::Tok Daddy at the swing with Dina::

::Dina modelling away....::

:: ....with baby nia::

::Just the three of us....happy family::

ps. Thanks Adek, for the wonderful shots... :)

what is dina doing now?

what happened yesterday was something really funny yet sweet..

as usual, whenever PP comes home from work with Dina...i'll open the door and there's dina in nor's arms... dina will flash me the cutest smile and with her outstretched arms to me, she'll say "COME" signalling me to pick her up...

but ysterday, dina for the first time, ever, refused to let me hold her while still in nor's arms... (hmm..mama felt a tad sad instantly..) but still i took her and cuddled her as always.... then askd her to "give mama a kiss"... AGAIN, dina refused me...but still in my arms, she smiled and said "mammaa" and a bunch of words ... a minute later dina wrggled herself free and i put her down...
and let her do her own thing...

i kept saying to her, "come, dina kiss mama here" pointing to my cheeks... and AGAIN, she said 'no'.... to my dismay.... i persisted...and she refused me again, preferring to play with her toys instead... ok i really felt a bit hurt by her behaviour thinking that Dina has forgotten her own mama la etc. etc... THEN, Dina came to me and asked for my boobs... she wants her 'friend'... and OF COS, i didnt immediately give in to her demand.... dina looked at me and said 'come, come' and i merely looked at her and said 'kiss mama first and say sorry mama'.... dina refused to do as told and started to wail... with tears now dripping from her cheeks, she looked at me with teh saddest face ever... as i've btrayed her.... with my arms crossed, i looked at her , and shook my head, and repeatedly telling her to say 'sorry mama'... dina wailed louder and looked at PP. PP helped out and said to dina ' papa tak tau... dina kena say sorry to mama... papa tak tau'....and looked the other way.... (thanks papa, this is how reinforcement is needed to teach dina values)...

dina walked to nor , who came from the kitchen to see what was happening, for some consolation.. to which PP quickly said, "Biarkan".... dina seeing no one was helping her out...went into her changing room and stood at one corner , crying away... after a few seconds, she came out again and walked to her toys and banged on them at the same time glancing at me with her kesian look yet tear-stricken face... she came back to me and stood between my knees( as i was sittign on the sofa ) and reached her hardest towards my boobs, while saying 'mam-maa...mam-maa...'. i picked her up and asked her to "look at me".. she did, and i told her again 'say sorry first'.. this scene repeated for 4 times - dina literally begging me to surrender my boobs - until i finally took her back in my arms to breastfeed..

as Dina was drinking from me, she looked at me with the saddest eyes...as if saying 'kenapa mama buat dina macam nie'... i repeatedly said to her 'next time kiss mama dulu', and say sorry mama'... dina understood by nodding her head but...not saying sorry, of cos.


AT 5am the next morning .....

Dina woke up beside me on the bed ...and glanced at me.. i stirred ...and for about half an hr, she kept saying 'sa-yyaaaag mam-maa' and kissed me on my lips and face about 5-6 times... :)) until i gave her some mama-milk to which she went back to lala land...

CONCLUSION:

Dina said sorry after all... in her own adorable way. 'sorry' is a word that she will pick up soon and understand its meaning...

Toddlers learn by repetition.

the day my skirt went up!

have you ever had a skirt-blow-up incident??? well , mine happened just now....

silly silly me.... today i wore my kebaya to work...this kebaya has a skirt (kain part) that has a slit-wrap-around-like kinda kain. so if you were to wear it, you dont really have to worry that the kain is so terbelah cos its a tight wrap-around so to speak...

so there i was walking out of my office building for lunch with a good lady friend of mine ...lots of students were also lepak-ing outside the building nearby...and SUDDENLY, the gust of wind came from nowhere and simply blew us away...yup...and my stupid kain kebaya also went up... apa lagi...my leg got exposed to those people there...some 2-3 groups of male students were smiling away as they saw me struggling to hold the slit together with my hands... HHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!!! So Kelakar..... all i managed to do was to laugh with the students, some of which were my students too!... smiling and laughing at myself with my lady friend beside me, we just walked to the nearest wall to get away from the windy scene... SHEESSSHHH!...
totally did not expect that wind, i say :(

SILLY ..SILLY MAMA PHOOP....

Dina at 14, 15 and 16

Dina at 14 months old...

Dina at 15 months old...













Dina at 16 months old...