8 Months Old Today

Dear Princess Mia,

Today you turn 8 months old. Time is flying by pretty fast and you are learning all sorts through out the days. You can be a chatterbox when you are by yourself. Sometimes mummy just puts you in your cot for a while so you can learn to entertain yourself. A couple of mornings ago, you woke up in your cot (and not in mummy's bed for a change) and sat up then starting talking to your teddy bear. You also started to pat your teddy bears bottom. I like to think you were "Pok-poking" him to sleep. Mummy & daddy love to overhear your conversations when you are in your cot. It never ceases to put smiles on our faces.

Once you get bored in your cot or if you're just too tired to entertain yourself, you would normally stand up, hang on to the rails, start whinning and go "mummmmuummm". Funnily enough, when you are in a happy mood and you're chit chatting to us, you'll say "Papapapapa". Could it be that, if you are happy, you like your daddy but if your sad, you prefer me? One of the latest things you like to do now is lick you lips which you only started doing recently. Its just simply adorable when after taking a spoonful of porridge, you'll just lick your lips then smile. You have also started munching on those Rusk biscuits which you seem to enjoy alot. It makes me smile to see the end result of the biscuit after you've suck on both ends of it.

Your hands have been doing alot of work as of late. You totally understand mummy when I say "clap your hands" or "give me 5". Basically its the two things that you do well when you are told. If only you understood mummy when I say stop whinning. I guess I'm going to have to make you understand the words "Stop it" next.

Mummy has been trying to teach you to wave bye bye for months then finally yesterday during lunchtime while daddy, me and you were sprawled on the mattress in the room, you looked at yourself in the mirror and started to wave...to yourself. It was one of the happiest moments for mummy. Unfortunately, its still quite difficult to get you to wave to us when we leave.

So my precious 8 month old baby who weighs approximately 8 kilos, I can wait to see what new things you will learn over the next month..

Love you my lil one..

Little Madame

My little Madame

Dear Baby Mia,

Alhamdullillah you are now better. That fever gave me a little scare. A day after your temperature went back to normal, red spots started coming out on your tummy & back. I was quite worried until your Aunties said it was quite normal. They told me "Panas nya keluar" so thank God now they are actually gone.

In a couple of months time, you'll be celebrating your first Raya. So mummy is now in the midst of preparing. I now have two babies to think of, you and your daddy. First things first, mummy will have to buy material for all three of us. I am going to make you two baju kurungs. One flowery one, made of plain japanese cotton so you wont feel hot and another one to match mummy and daddy. I think you'll just look more adorable and more comfortable in your dresses, so we will alternate during the festive season. I need to get you nice black shoes, some new socks and hairbands. Ooo...I'm so excited.

Insyallah you'll be having a berdzikir ceremony next month before the month of Ramadhan. If all goes well and we do have the function, it will an auspicious day for you as you'll be able to meet all your relatives.

My love, do continue tugging at your hair and playing with your ear when you're feeling sleepy...it's just the most adorable thing. Daddy has lowered your cot so now its safer for you when you feel like standing up in it. We filled it up with your favourite toys so I do hope now you'll sleep in it. As your daddy says, you are getting a little "manja", especially when you wake up in the middle of the night whimpering for no reason at all. Let's just hope you grow out of that phase ok. I have to be strong and not spoil you too much but how can I not when you are mummy's most precious prized possession. I love you little one.

Fever Number Two

Off to the Clinic

It is a sad today today. Breaking news in Brunei today involves a 12 year old girl who died of H1N1 Influenza today. She already had chronic illnesses and the flu just made it worse. Al-fatihah to the little one. This swine flu is spreading life wildfire and for a small population, we have quite a large amount of H1N1 cases. 93 to be exact. As a mother, I have become very paranoid and angry at those ignorant people who have been suspected of having this disease and are still walking around in public risking contaminating others. I thought, as a small country, we would have been able to control this flu from spreading but unfortunately there are too many irresponsible and ignorant people out there. I thought we would be safe to still go to work, school and even public places but I was wrong. I even heard a suspected person was walking around the ICC at the consumer fair.

I am actually very angry with myself for bringing Mia to the ICC consumer fair last Saturday. I did not assume such irresponsible people would be walking about. I only found out the following day. When Mia started getting a high temperature on Wednesday, I started to freak out. Thursday morning I brought her to the Government clinic and they told me to get a number and wait amongst the many sick people in the waiting area. I looked around and said to the lady that I think its safer for me to go to a private clinic. So off I went to Dr. Asri's clinic. He took a quick look at her, took her temperature and told me not to worry. It's probably a normal fever. Alhamdullillah. Yet, I'm still keeping a look out for any changes in her temperature. Her temperature often rises at night. The highest its been was 37.7 degrees celcius. I put on one of those Kool Fever plasters and luckily it reduced her temperature abit. She neither has a runny nose nor a cough but I can't really tell if she has a headache or any sort of muscle pains. At night she often wakes up whimpering and quickly sucks on my teat for comfort. She still has energy to play in the day time though. I just hope she gets well soon. I ache to see her in such pain. and uncomfortableness. Even my darling hubby saw the worriedness in my face and told me not to worry. Ya Allah, please help my baby girl recover soon.

New Addition to the Clan

My Little Muffin

We welcome with love in our hearts, the arrival of Baby Abdul Hapidz Bin Abdul Razak, the first born of my little sister Azimah and her hubby, Razak. Baby Heff was born on 30th June 2009 at 18.28pm at JPMC, weighing 3.555 grammes and 51cm in length. He has got just the biggest adorable eyes and a very sharp nose. I'm sure he'll grow up to be a fine handsome boy, definitely a heart breaker...

Finally in mummy's arms

Mia's Photoshoot

My Precious Pumpkin

On the 27th July, in collaboration with Mia's 7th Month birthday, she did a little photoshoot for Chee for his photography portfolio. Here are some of the pics that I simply adore:

Seven Months Old Today

My 7 month old Baby Girl

My sweet Mia,

You are officially 7 months old today. My oh my time is flying by too fast. You woke up and started clapping by yourself this morning. I think you know its your 7th month birthday today. Either that or you know its my pay day and it's time for a new toy.

You have grown from being a healthy happy baby into a chubby curious little one. For the past month you have accomplished many things my love. You started eating a month ago and so far we are still on feeding you chicken porridge and mashed apples. Your Grandma made something special for you last week though, mashed apples & pears with a little bit of rice. When you have that in the late afternoons, it really fills you up.

You have now mastered crawling and clapping hands and its all you've been doing all day. Mummy has yet to teach you how to wave though. Nowadays, you just want to stand up. while holding onto something. Everyone is saying that you might start walking sooner than expected. You also like banging things together. That's all you do when you are in your high-chair entertaining yourself while mummy is cooking.

I love you my little angel!!!

Busy Sunday

Yesterday left me Mia feeling completely exhausted today. It was the most busiest weekend ever. We attended Filya and Sheherol's bersanding ceremony at Polo club, dashed home for a quick shower then on to Alai's house to celebrate Mokhtar's 11th birthday then go home only to get dressed to go out again to have dinner with my family at Nyonya to celebrate Father's Day. I felt quite guilty because it was Father's Day but we did not spend much quality time with Mia's Daddy. I hope I can make it up to him this Sunday instead.

The wedding was the first one that Mia has ever attended. It was nice to be surrounded by so many friends and family in one room. I saw old faces and met new ones too. I think that this will be the first and last wedding for Mia for at least a couple of more months. The timing of the wedding functions coincides with Mia's lunch time nap so she was quite cranky at the wedding. Although we were indoors (with air-conditioner) Mia was still hot and uncomfortable. Luckily I put on her just a cotton dress. Nevertheless, I think Mia had a great time at the wedding, seeing new faces and being fussed over.


After the wedding, we went to pick up some lunch for Daddy and quickly met up with Mia's Auntie Mama & Uncle Jack. They decided to kidnap Mia for a short while and bring her shopping. These two sweet people bought Mia an early "Mandi Belawat gift", well two actually. A beautiful white gold Pendant & necklace set and a bangle. Thank you to the beautiful mama and handsome papa-to-be. We now have another Bangle to Mia's collection. A latest craze for her. Whenever I put a bangle or bracelet on her, she will just lift up her hand trying to show it off to everyone. Its so adorable, it cracks me up. Auntie Mama is getting more bigger by the minute. Baby Heff is already 3.5kg in her tummy. I'm sure Mia is as excited as I am to see her new cousin. "Hurry up Heff"!

Around 4pm we made our way to Mokhtar's birthday party. It started at 2.30pm and we got there two hours later. I felt terrible for being late. The kids played a few games and so did the adults. Well, we played one game, Pin the tail on the Donkey. It was hilarious to see adults pinning the tail on the donkey and we still got it wrong...haha. We had munchies and Mr.Baker's chocolate cake. All in all, it was a great afternoon.

"Like babies like mommies"

When we got home, we rested for a while. I changed Mia and fed her then took a shower. We then made our way to Nyonya to meet Mum, Bapa and the rest. By this time, I was exhausted and Mia seemed sleepy too. But as soon as she saw the grandparents, aunties and uncles, her face lit up and she was wide awake again. Dinner was yummy and company was great!