These slippers are made for walking...

While ayman getting busy exploring on his feet nowadays, umi had no choice other than trying the best to make the house as 'babyproof' as possible so that he will be able to explore without hearing the words 'dont touch' constantly hahaha...finally, his on his feet at 13mths old!

As for kak cik, she's already an expert with clicking the mouse at 3years old! That is quite advance compared to her two elder sisters hmm....millenium kid i guess :) Now her two sisters will have to add another competitors when playing computer games. Lucky we have three PC at home (including umi's laptop huhu..umi had to sacrifice lohhh....) The funny thing is, when one girl decide to use the PC, automatically the other two will rush to the nearest PC available..well, kids will always be kids huh ;)

This is for Kak Cik who turns 3yo today! (13th April 2008)

We had two people in our family who shares same birthday in the month of April, that’s ayah and kak cik. Ayah birthday falls on the 22^nd while Kak cik’s on the 13^th of the month. Still remembers those days when umi was carrying Kak Cik, being the third experience Umi adopted those ‘take it easy’ style all through the 81/2months of growing her inside me, in fact she’s the lightest among the sisters! Having her is such a dramatic situation. Had been admitted into Putrajaya Hosp two weeks earlier before due date because of very low water level as claimed by Dr Kamsiah of Az Zahrah Bangi, umi had a very restless sleep the night before she was born. Of course there’s the contractions but very mild and it is so frequent that umi had got immune with it haha..

Then on that bright, sunny morning, ayah came around 8am anxiously asking if umi had the feelings for labor. Seems like everybody is getting impatience with the waiting. Asked ayah hows the two girls were doing back home left with Mak and Bibik Idah, ayah said they were fine. Just kept on asking when umi will be back with their lil sister..yes, both of them still wanted another sister, they said baby girl is cuter than the boys..haha..after had my breakfast (thanks to ayah for just being around, luv u!), umi insists ayah to go and get the groceries for the girls as umi’s instinct say its not time yet. Ayah make umi promised to cling on the cell all time so that he’ll get to be updated. Half an hour after ayah had just left, umi got that terrible back pain..macam nak tercabut pinggang rasanya. Umi decided to go and look for the nurse instead of using the calling button as the nurse counter is just next to umi’s room. Umi figure out that walking around should benefit the delivery process also, right. As soon as they saw umi walking towards them in such agonize, one of them direct umi to the checking room. Few minutes later a lady doctor came and she was so surprised to find that umi already was 6cm dilated. She quickly instruct to get umi to the labor room which is on a different floor! While the nurses chaotically pushed the trolley into the lift, umi was so glad that umi did cling to the cell as ayah requested. So, during the lapse time when umi not in pain, umi got to call ayah and told him that we are on the way to the labor room. The nurses did asked where’s the baby father, and when umi told them he’s at Alamanda buying some fishes, they just giggles..hehe..Around 10mnts after the call, ayah arrived just in time to hold umi’s hand and with the third push, Nur Aina Nadirah was born at 11:45am, 13^th April 2005 with only 2.5kg. Welcome to outside world my sweet lil child, may you grow to become anak solehah and happiness will always be with you, amin.

Homesickkk...

Had chatted with beloved Mak and Ly today makes me feel so homesick. Oh how I wish we all could fly back home right now and then..*sigh*

Maybe it would brightened my day a lil bit if I just paste the latest pic of our beloved family back in Msia. These pics were taken during our trip back home last summer hols. The first picture is at Tiara Beach Resort just two days before we had to go back to Riyadh. The second photo was taken at KLIA, with all the people we love so much…Mak, Mami, both Abahs and adik2ku..while the other half of the family bunch, though not present, are always in our heart so dearly.

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. ~ Kay Knudsen

Geant Salam Mall

Seems like we are in the mood to go places with 'Salam' word lately J This week we decided to get the groceries at Geant Salam Mall, 30mnts drive from Umm Hammam. No 1 item to get is kakak's school bag. She excitedly showed umi the broken handle as soon as she got home from school yesterday and demonstrated on how difficult for her to drag that old trolley bag without the handle, and she did it with excitement because she knew she'll be getting a new one! Hmm…umi just hope that kakak realize how lucky she is. I still remember when I was her age, we only get to shop for ‘Back to School’ items at the beginning of the year only. In fact, before the shopping trip, my beloved mak will always check if the old one can still be use and when I mean usable, that’s mean its either untorn or still fit the size. Well, I guess mak just want us to learn to appreciate things more..and that’s what i’m going to teach my kids. We only spend an hour to get all the items in the list, and while ayah unload the trolley, umi took a snap of the ‘lil bunch….

Kak Chik at 2yo, soon going to 3yo yeay!

A Trip to Salam Park

Its another weekend in Riyadh, but it surely is an interesting one. Ayah had promised to bring us to a new park recommended by his colleagues and the exciting part is there’s a lake in the park! Yeaahh…one would think what is so exciting about it?? Its just a park with lake, we had a hundreds of them back in Malaysia…Tasik Titiwangsa, Tasik Perdana, Tasik Shah Alam which are all open to public 24hrs. But not here in The Kingdom and as expected, anything in Saudi that involved H2O maintenance will cost us a price.

We decided to go after Asr on that Friday, with Uncle Zul and Auntie Nini tagging along behind us. Credit to Google Technology which ayah had surfed the night before (that’s our smart daddy hehe..), we reached our destination after 20mnts driving. Uncle Zul had a glinch in finding parking space, it turn out that he had to make one round of u-turn and with all the impatience girls who just cant wait to get off from his car, whats more seeing that ayah and umi already waiting at the ticket booth, haha…We had to pay 3riyal each to get to explore inside the park, hoping that the fun waiting inside is worth the pay. The sight of a beautiful lake with magnificent fountain (surprisingly a stunning rainbow also) welcomed us that afternoon. The girls gasps seeing there’s even paddle boat ride to enjoy!! Hmm…looks like Salam Park will become their favorite now haha…Guess you should know our first activity there and then right? Ayah had to fork out 20riyal for the rides, and we are very lucky that Uncle Zul came along. At least they don’t have to cramp in one boat. With two adults as the captain with each two kids crew, they paddle to the centre of lake for 20mnts, while umi, ayman and auntie nini as their loyal camera women.

After the paddling activity, we strolled around the park and found that there’s actually a lot of choice for boat rides. There’s the Swan boat, Mickey Mouse Boat and a few more. Everybody agreed that enough paddling for today, and decided to enjoy the train ride instead. This time Uncle Zul generously chip in for our tickets, it cost SAR5/each. It was a fun ride, well at least ayman enjoy the sound of the train so much that he’s been so quite all along haha…Then we just spend the rest of the time lazing beside the playground. As soon as the call for Maghrib Prayer, we decided to heed back home, hoping that there will be another visit next time.

Its Art and Craft Time!

My serenity