Sleeping by yourself

You have been asking to sleep by yourself for the past 6 days now. You actually wanted to sleep all by yourself in the purple room but I don't think that was a good idea. So instead you slept the red mattress on the bedroom floor all by yourself on last  Tuesday. On Wednesday, I put your baby mattress on the red mattress and you slept by yourself and yesterday, Thursday I brought down your new huge mattress and put it on the floor and you slept all by yourself.

Mama's little baby wants to sleep all by yourself now. Not even 5 year old yet. I'm choked up and yet so proud.

Arwen At Ikano with Uncle Sam, Aunty Linda & Shireen without Mama or Bak

The title says it all.

Well, actually we went to Ikano with Aunty Linda & Shireen. We were there until 6pm and Uncle Sam wanted to have dinner at Ikano but I have to get home to Bak because I'm supposed to bring dinner home. So it was agreed that I can take Aunty Linda's car home but then you didn't want to come home yet. So Aunty Linda said that its ok for you to stay with them. I was a bit unsure but you were so sure. My baby girl is brave now.

I'm just a bit choked up.

Dollhouse

This dollhouse is amazing! We love it! Its huge! Actually we got this on 4 Jan 2010. Now its already 12 May 2010. Just shows how really busy Mama is. I have back logs in keeping memoirs for you. Why Mama is so busy will deserve another blog entry all of its own.

You've been asking for a big doll house and Bak just couldn't resist getting this for you.

No diapers at night!

Wen! Last night you slept with no diaper. Yeah! You requested that you wanted to sleep with panties and not diapers. You did asked about a couple of weeks back but Mama was a bit concerned that you were going to wet the bed. I think maybe you haven't wet yourself for quite some time now but I did not know because when morning time comes, you always want to take off your diaper after having your breakfast & watching cartoons. By that time, the diaper is so full already.

Actually on 9 Jan 2010, when Bak was away in Dubai and we slept over at Tok Bak's house, I forgot to put you in diapers and I realised that the next morning hours after you woke up! I thought that you didn't wet yourself that night because you did not drink your susu elmo before you went to sleep. However, last night you did drink your susu elmo and still did not wet yourself. Hurray! I'm so proud of you.

Now I hope this will continue. All I have to do then will be to give away the new pack of diapers we just bought. :)

Makan

Aduh...!! It's so hard to feed you now. It's even harder to feed you healthy food! You've always been selective in what you choose to eat but at least there is a selection of food that you will eat like nasi ayam, roti canai, spaghetti, macaroni, roti kaya (which you calls peanut butter sandwich), roti canai & karipap ikea. For protein you eat boiled egg (the white part only), chicken from the nasi ayam and the KFC chicken. No meat at all. Now you are eating less & less of these food too. What's more you don't take veggies or fruits!. The only fruit you really eat is banana. You only suck on apples. The only vegetable you eat now is potato -mashed and we can't even consider that french fries is a vegetable!

I'm not a good cook, so I guess that adds to the difficulty of feeding you good, healthy & delicious home-cooked meals. However, I have tried to use Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious recipes where vegetables are hidden in the food but the success rate with you is very, very low.

I do so wish that you would develop healthy eating habits. It will be so much easier when you grow up but as of now chocolates, biscuits, cakes, muffins, doughnuts and pringles are pretty much your favourites. Good thing though you don't like fizzy drinks or sodas, you don't take too much junk food like twisties & the like except for pringles and you do eat wholemeal bread.

To make it just a bit harder, you still want me to feed you and if I don't, you just don't bother to eat!

I hope you will be willing to try new food as you grow up and willing to feed yourself soon. Especially eat lots of fruits & vegetables. Seriously, they are good for you.

Arwen Sakit Throat

Today we finally hear you talking again. You have been sick for the past 6 days and for the past 3 days you could not even talk! Which is practically out of the ordinary! You told me in a very soft whisper "Arwen sakit throat" and did not talk for 3 whole days! kesian sangat. This is the first time that you totally cannot speak. Otherwise its "Mama..this..mama that..." Non-stop chatter throughout the day & night! We miss your talk and we miss you so very much. Alhamdulillah you are getting better.

Kite Flying

For the first time ever, we went kite flying! In your life and probably in mine too. I can't really recall whether I've played with a kite before or not. Mama can't actually recall how we came about to flying kites. Sometime 2 weeks ago, you asked for a kite in the middle of the day and I tried to tell you that I don't know how to make a kite but you still insisted and insisted and insisted even after I said that we will buy one when Bak gets home. So we made one. A really tiny, horribly wrong kite but we had fun making it anyway.

Eventually we bought a kite from Toys R Us for RM10. So here's a picture of our first time. Unfortunately, it was not a windy day and it was already getting dark. So it was just a brief try out. This was on 31 Jan 2010.

Then we tried again a few days after that at the pink playground. It was windy and the kite went up but Mama forgot to bring the camera. Bak took some photos in his Iphone but getting those pictures from him is most unlikely in the near future..hahaha. Anyway here's some photos of us playing kite for the 3rd time. This was on 7 Feb 2010. Pretty fun. The kite went quite high.

 

 

Then it started to rain and we ran all the way home!