Category: Parenthood

All my 3 kids co-sleep with us, yup we managed to find a way to squeeze all of us on the king size bed. Now that a newborn is coming, i have to think of a sleeping arrangement. Im trying to move them to their own bed. So far it is possible for athirAh and uZair. I will let them fall asleep on my bed first and later carry to their own bed. But somehow it is not possible to do this on hArith. He will wake up middle of night and climb to our bed. He need body contact, he wants to touch someone by his side.

I will often praise the other 2 on how good they are for sleeping on their own bed. Kept telling him that uZAir n athirAh are big boy and big gal sleeping by themselves but why cant he. And guess how he respond to it?

“tapi pApa also very big boy, why pApa tak sleep on his own bed?”

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Well, im not sure if this solution will last for long. Maybe soon they will adapt to the routine and their bedtime will be late like usual. Last Friday, weather was rather gloomy, it was only 330pm btu the kids saw the kind weather and insists nak play outside coz they thought it was already 5pm. (i usually let them out about 5-ish). So they were running about in the garden till 6-ish. That got them all tired and all slept by 945pm! That was just amazing. All in bed before 10pm.

The following day and yesterday, they started playing outside at 3-ish too. It was still hot, thus they play their bike and all at the patio. Again, on Saturday, the elder two slept at about 930pm and uZAir slept passed 10 but he wasn’t jumping making noise,singing and such…he lay down on his bed…looking at the empty ceiling and finally fell asleep. That was close to 11pm. As long he was not making noises, singing and dancing, it was perfectly fine to me.

Yesterday, they were out by 3pm! running around, sat on the swing, ride their bike and i did painting with them. I got them to lie down on the paper, drew a shape of their body and asked them to paint their body with clothing, eyes and all. At 6pm, brought them to the stream, they were all wet and continued playing at the playground. athirAh slept by 9:15pm, followed by hArith close to 930pm and by 945pm uZair was asleep too. And by 10pm I was asleep!!! Yup, i was extremely tired after 3 days of such routine.

Yup, as u can see, my kids dont take afternoon nap. I’m not sure wat’s the sleeping quota hours for toddlers, but dont think my kids fulfill those quota. They wake up latest by 830am, if they are not awake, i will carry them out of the bed. Or else they ended up sleeping pass midnite if i allow them to wake up late. But since i consistently pulled them out of bed latest by 830am, they now wake up by themselves by 8am.

So for now the solution to early bedtime (if you were to consider 945pm early, that is), i will have to let them out in the garden by 3pm instead of 5pm, let them run about till 630pm. And you wonder why am i small? 6 months preggie and im only 45kg.  Coz i burnt my calories everyday, need not head to the gym, i have 3 personal trainers at home! My gym is open to all, no fees charge..hahaha

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It will be a loooooong week for me. Syauqi just left for work. Will need to start brainstorming on activities for the 3 kids. I can foresee a tried evening everyday, running around with them at the garden, teman them jump about on the trampoline, getting hands dirty doing painting and also getting dirty in the sandpit. perhaps trip to the neighbourhood playground as well. hArith been requesting to go to the small river pass few days. Will have to make a trip to the river as well. But will need extra hand to go to the nearby stream coz usually the boys will be busy playing water but athirAh on the other hand is more interested to climb about at the playground and going down the slides.

Besides the usual activities, i have to think of something new, to keep them occupied. Ideas are most welcome!! Something not too tiring please.

And oh i think hArith associate work with shopping. I fetched him from school today and told him that pApa is getting ready to work at home.

mOmmy: hArith, pApa going to work tau (yes, need to prepare him if syauQi going to work)

hArith: pApa go beli ape?

mOmmy: go to work lah

hArith: ye, go to work beli ape?

hmm… i guess work means shopping to him…hahaha

Looks like i’ll be going for my gynae check-up alone again. So far baru once syauQi was around to accompany me. Everytime tunggu waiting for my number, it will be only me alone without husband. Pastu bile ade yg ajak borak, and ask me anak ke berapa, tekejut whenever i answer anak ke-5 (im sure dlm hati diorang kate…oh patut lah husband dah tak teman..hahahah)

Tomorrow we will be going to the Kleenex Family Day at Kidzports OU. Anyone else going? My face recognition is really really bad, if i tak recognize any of you, i apologize in advance. And if i didn’t say hi or tegur, im very2 sorry…not that i’m sombong or such but i got to do headcount every 5 seconds. So i might be looking into ur face, but actually im looking around if my daughter / son is there. I’ll be going alone with the 3 kids

On a Different Topic:

Few days back while i was lepaking on the bed with syauQi, playing angry birds (trying to make new high score) hArith came to me asking for help, cucuk straw for his packet milk. After i cucuk the straw, within minutes i saw him finishing the whole 250ml box of milk. So i told syauQi:

me: i think this is one of my biggest achievement, weaning them off from the bottle and getting them to drink from the packet. And hArith consistently drinks 2 boxes a day (at times 3) . What do you think? dont u think ni my achievement yg besar? (coz i did this all by myself, by the time syauQi balik keja…all bottles thrown away)

syauQi: tak..

me: then u rase ape achievement i yg besar?

syauQi: achievement u yg besar is jaga i yg besar ni

me: hahaha, tu dh mcm perli i. cheh

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By now, im sure msot of you know uZair’s hairstyle…dahi luas, rambut depan takde. tp rmbut belakang panjat bleh ikat tokcang pokok kelapa. Well i guess its rather genetic kot coz my hair was exaactly like that when i was his age, and ade my siblings yg camtu gak, rmbut depan takde.

When my sister was a baby, we had a local maid dari kedah. Die rajin sapu santan on my sister’s hair. But i was already in my primary mase tu, so letak santan pun cam takde effect sgt kot. Oh chop, by then of coz lah i already have my hair depan but my hair tak lebat. With the frequent santan sapu on my sis’s kepala, her hair now is soo lebat. more than triple my hair kot.

So i decided to sapu santan on uZair’s hair too…especially yg depan rmbut skit sgt tu….he loves it. he had no problem me sapu the santan on his head. Wanted to to on athirAh too but the minute she saw me wanting to touch her hair, trus lintang pukang cabut lari. Yes, nobody is allowed to touch her hair. As i mentioned before, if we get to comb her hair after shower, we are considered lucky! wanna put on hers too sbb syauQi kate rambut die jarang (like mine i guess, tak lebat)..but she refused to allow me to do so.

Here’s uZAir, selamba je muka bile i letak the santan, busy occupied watching Wiggles (youtube) on my phone. He can bukak youtube apps by himself and scroll for his fav youtube song, if tak suke bleh kuar balik frm the list and cari lagu lain from the list. (if i tak jawab any of your calls or sms, that means the phone is with uZAir and he simply reject any calls that get into his way from watching wiggles and sms pun selamba tekan “close”)

budak ni pulak, rambut dah sangat lebat and cepat panjang tapi nk jugak letak santan on him

so i put a lil bit on his kepala to satisfy him. sume org dh bising he need a haircut but he refused to have one. how now?

*oh by the way, i know that santan lebat kan rambut. does it also helps to make your rambut bertambah2 hitam?

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