Mama's pink finger nails & toe nails

You should know that this is my first time ever doing this in my adult life. I can't remember whether I did this when I was a child. What am I talking about? This.

..and who painted them? Arwen - lah...This was actually on 18 Dec 2009. You insisted that you wanted to paint my nails. We bought your first nail polish at the RM5 shop using your own money. Ni semua your kakak Nisha and cousins la ajar. Bak actually took a photo of you painting my toenails but it is in his iphone and I don't know when I can get that photo from him. My nails looked pretty but when it was a bit tiresome when the time comes to clean them off. Anyway, we had fun but Mama can only do this once a month ok...bila Mama cuti sembahyang....:)

It's the Fairy Season

Alang & Aunty Maniz gave you this Fairy activities book for your 4th birthday. It is great!. We had fun making all sorts of projects. We made wands, head bands and fairies. Great fun! So November 2009 was the Fairy season in our house.

Country Heights Resort, Kajang

On 1 December 2009, Tok Bak invited us to go along for a one night stay at this resort. Bak didn't come as it was a working day. We had a 3 bedroom apartment. We had fun during the day. Redza, Shahirah & you played in the indoor playroom and in the evening we all went for a swim. Even though it was drizzling, we just went ahead and played in the pool. However, when it was time to sleep - that was a whole different story. I knew you have a problem sleeping over at other people's house but I mainly thought it was because there was no air-conditioning. There was air-cond in every room here. So I was really surprised when it was time to sleep and both of us went into the bedroom and you immediately cried and said that you wanted to go home. Arrgghhh! SoI asked whether you wanted to sleep in Tok Bak's room with Shahirah & Redza. You said ok. So with 3 available bedrooms, all 6 of us slept in the master bedroom. You & I slept on the mattress (brought in from the other room) while Tok Bak, Tok Lia, Shahirah & Redza slept on the king sized bed. I read you your bedtime stories while you drank your susu elmo and you fell asleep about 10 pm. Wonderful! But wait! You woke up around 1.20am and cried saying you want to go home. Oh no!

First you wanted to turn on the lights even though it was quite bright with the bathroom lights on. So I took you out and we sat in front of the TV (thank goodnes there was ASTRO's Disney channel 615 even though you don't usually watch it but since there was no Playhouse Disney channel 613, 615 had to do!) You just watched TV while tears flowed down and from time to time you would say "Arwen nak go home, nak balik. Mama go drive the car." Susah-susah, how to go jalan-jalan next time like this. Finally you nodded off at 4am and still woke up so early at 7.30am. Mama's kepala sudah pening because lack of sleep.

Once it was day time again I asked you " Would you like to stay at the hotel for one more night?" and you said "Yes!"....Huh?

Cooking

Cooking? Cooking!! The bane of my existense. I have no passion for cooking and I really wish that I do. I want to be able to cook real good, healthy food for Bai & Arwen but it is so hard. Let's just say I really don't have the "cooking thumb" as in you know when people say they have a "green thumb" means that they can do gardening and their trees or plants or whatever will grow up well & strong. Anyway, I don't have the cooking thumb. (I don't have a green thumb either but that's not so bad because that doesn't frustrate me. Not being able to cook well frustrates me to the point of breaking down & cry.) Sometimes it's funny - the things that happens in my kitchen and sometimes it's just sad. Seriously, nothing rings true like a bell right now than what old ladies have been saying for centuries " Perempuan belajar tinggi mana pun kena tau masak." I know it sounds really backward but now I really have to agree with them. It would just be wonderful and would make my life easier if I can just cook well for me! and of course for Bai & Arwen.

At least, I'm beginning to have interest now ever since having Arwen. Prior to that I had no interest at all. I'm also enjoying baking now. Cooking - not so much but baking's quite ok and Arwen loves to help out too especially with the noisy cook part aka using the cake mixer.

If I had a wish I want to be able to cook like Nigella Lawson. She is so relaxed and can calmly have a few guests over for dinner with minimal fuss. I love watching her cooking shows and of course she is beautiful too.

Anyhow, Arwen - I am sorry that your mother does not know how to cook well but I am working on it. Hopefully I can get better with practice and time.

I must tell myself.

I've got a whole long story on your potty training but I will update on that later because I just had to write this down now because it happened today.

I was busy cleaning up the play room, well cleaning up my stuff in what now has become your play room and you were downstairs drinking susu elmo and watching brainy baby cd. Suddenly, you came up looking happy & proud & wearing your pink adidas shorts with both legs in one leg hole. You told me "I went potty all by myself!" Ha? I was so surprised because ever since you turned 4 (exactly the day after you turned 4) you always tell me when you have to go potty. I always tell you and now you tell me back "I must tell Mama..I must tell Mama" whenever you want to go potty. But you have never went to potty all by yourself. So I asked you, did you wash after you went potty? You said "Yeah, I did." I didn't know whether to believe you or not but looking at the condition of your pants and the fact that your panties were inside out, I think I believe you.

I asked you "Why didn't you tell Mama?" and you replied strong and loud, "I must tell myself."

Aaahhh..my clever little girl. :)

Mama tak sempat nak ambil gambar but know this, the sight of you with both legs in one pants hole and not to mention that the shorts was all the way up that I can see your panties is so hilarious that I just burst out laughing!