And there were 3

I can't believe the last blog post I did was 2 years ago! How time flies! I was so occupied with work, being a mom to 2 toddlers and being a wife I hardly had time to blog! 

As I was browsing through all my blog posts from the beginning (2009), I feel there a so many things and memories that I didn't get to put in this blog for the kids and me to look back and reminisce all the fun (and sad) times we had. I blame it all on Instagram. 

Anyway, this will be my first post after 2 years of hiatus. 

I have 3 kids now! Can you believe that? I'm a mother of 3! 

Nothing brings more joy and happiness than having these 3 little people as my kids. 

They may be handful but I love them nevertheless.

I will post my labor story later. It's a short one. Trust me.

The kids. My heart and soul

Wordless Wednesday #14 - Sama tapi tak serupa

On babies

Assalammualaikum...

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I blog about something here *blowing dusts* Wonder if there are still readers of this blog. :P

If you've been following me on twitter, you will know how hectic my life has been ever since the arrival of Sara. Rezeki pon datang melimpah ruah like office workload and my blog design job at Krafty Palette. These are all my babies now. I have to care for them, feed them, cherish them :)

When there were just Hariz, i kept posting on Hariz's milestones but not when with Sara. Macam kesian jugak. huhuhu but I'm trying. Most of my free time I spent designing the blog. Updating this blog will be the last thing to do. Plus my camera is in the workshop again. So all photos were taken with camera phone. Hence the blurring.

As for my Krafty Palette, I had to close for new orders for time being because ever since it's opening, I hardly had time for myself. Sometimes got me to think why on earth did I start the blog at first place??! Well I found some kind of 'happiness' in blog designing. So I can't stop. Like people had hobbies, I have blog design! :) and I am really grateful to be getting a lot of orders and still receiving orders although I'm no longer taking one. So thank you everyone for your support. Even though terkemut kemut nak siapkan 1 draft. I only have 3-4 hours a day! Itu pon kalau Sara cooperate lah. Bila dia buat perangai bangun setiap jam, memang mak give up.

To update on Sara milestone, she just turned 4 months old last 13th. We haven't done the aqiqah or cukur rambut for her. *sigh* and she has started losing her womb hair (is it womb hair?) heh. Like her mom, I've been losing handful of hair! Penoh lantai and toilet drain. But I just couldn't careless. Sometimes I just tak larat nak kisah like rumah sepah ke, baju tak lipat ke, tak gosok ke. Living with just the 4 of us and no helper is really mencabar keimanan. If only I have a magic wand and just swooshh it and the house is clean. Yeah I wish.Oh she haven't yet meniarap or anything. Berat bontot kot.

FYI, Hariz is never jealous of Sara. In fact he loves Sara. He doesn't care if I play more with Sara or breastfeeding Sara. Sometimes he just came up to Sara and kiss her and return to whatever he was doing. Alhamdulillah that I don't have to worry to much about Hariz acceptance towards Sara when she 1st arrived. I will share with you a video taken by my hubs when we 1st brought Sara home from the hospital. His expression was priceless! I could cry everytime I watched the video.Anyway, here's some shots taken recently during the 3 days holiday.

{sara & hariz having a ball}

Hariz is not well by the way. It's been 2 days he's been having mild fever. Started with coughing. Jangkit from abah dia laa. Although abah dia got it from me. huhuhu. Hope he will get well soon.

The begining of his tantrum

We haven't been having problems with Hariz sleeping patterns since he turns 1 year old. It's always been 9pm bedtime and woke up at 7.30am or 8.00am.  For that, my husband and I feel really grateful and we fully utilized  the extra free time we had every night to do all the works.

But lately, 1 week ago to be precise, his behave started to change so sudden. Putting him to bed has never been this hard. He will scream and cries like we are abusing him! Know what will stop him from doing that? If I sit next to his cot, holding his hands, singing, tepuk tepuk until he fell asleep. I don't mind doing this but the new baby is coming out soon! I can't have this behavior when the baby arrive!??!

I don't know how long this will last. We did the cry-it-out method again last night like we did to him when he was 10-11 months old. We let him cry his lungs out for merely 15 minutes and finally he fell asleep on his own. I never thought we're going to do this again at his time of age.

But at 3am, he woke up again screaming, reaching his arms out for me. I asked him ' kenapa hariz?? why are you crying??" because i think i heard him said 'tattooott" (takott). I think. I don't know. I was feeling drowsy. So I keep him in his cot and recite ayat qursi for a few times. Just when I thought he was already asleep, he woke up and cries again when I start climbing to my bed. In the end I just lift him and put him next to me. I think he fell asleep sometime at 4am.

I don't know if this happens because of the new baby coming or something new about his behavior. He's 1 year and 8 months old by the way. My only worry is if this behavior continues when the new baby arrives. We must find a solution before the day comes. Help?

The little boy is now grown up

I was doing a spring clean on my camera's memory card when I saw this photo. It was taken sometime early last year. It was Hariz's 1st time outing after I finished my confinement period. He was 4 months old.

Somehow every time when I look at his old photos (new born), being helpless, I just couldn't help but feeling touched, and mula la rasa nak cry. Heh. I don't know what this feeling is called. It's like, I miss his younger days.

Have you ever felt that way?

But he is all grown up now. 1 year and 3 months old. I don't know what will I feel when he is 12 years old or 18. But of course he is and always be my 'baby' :)

(okay I'm being emotional now) isk.. .

Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD) on 1 year old toddler

Where should I start. That I was covered with Hariz's poop 30 minutes before departure at the airport or Hariz been effected with Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD) ? *sigh*

I've been taking turns with Wan to look after Hariz at home. He's been house arrest for almost 3 days now. It all started when we were on our trip in Kuching last Friday (Deepavali holiday). He seems fine and active as always. He slept the whole trip from Penang to Kuching (a real relief). 

Once arrived at the Kuching, we took a walk at the riverfront. I started to notice red bumps appeared on his bums. I thought it was just nappy rash and he seems fine.

And the day after, more red bumps started to appeared on his arms. But not much. Just a few dots. and again, I thought maybe it's the bed bugs because Hariz slept in the baby cot at the hotel. Again, I never thought of anything serious.

The day we returned to Penang, his foot started to show more red bumps. I started to feel something is not quite right. It's either chicken pox or something else. Suddenly my mind flew to fatih's blog, pikertonic, because I remembered reading her daugther Athirah had this HFMD. but quickly I shook it off. Hoping that it's not it. 

But you know what they said, mother's instinct is always right. Right after we touched down Penang airport, we headed straightaway to Kid's Carer, child specialist, where Hariz has been having his monthly jab. I told the doctor where we have been , and the doc saw Hariz been drooling and the red spots, he knew it was HFMD. He checked his mouth and there, small ulcers started to developed on the throat. 

There's no exact cure or vaccine for this disease, so we were given cream for the bumps, antibiotic for the ulcers and paracetamol just in case he had any fever. 

According to wikipedia, the symptom started with fever and followed with the rashes. As for Hariz, he never had any fever until now. Despite all the ulcers in his throat, he seems to appear, fine. He ate normally, drink normally and well.. sleep more I guess :P

Now I'm not too worry about his condition as the ulcers in his mouth are gone.Only left the scars and some few red spot on his feet. Until then, he has to stay away form the nursery and other kids because it is contagious. That's what been bugging me. 

Wan can't stay at home look after Hariz every day. and I can't take leave for too many days too!

So how exactly Hariz got this HFMD? We have no idea either. Because there's no other kid. Hariz has been in his stroller all the time. It's not airborne. No direct contact. I just don't know. Benda dah nak jadi kan?

As long as he is happy and always bubbly :)

Celebrating Hariz 1st birthday

Finally we managed to organized Hariz's first birthday party at my hometown in Alor Setar last weekend. It's kinda a last minute plan and nothing fancy. Just cake(s), balloons and homemade food :)

We invited only family members as this is just a small party just to celebrate Hariz's transformation from an infant to a toddler. Though is just a small get together, we were pretty exhausted chasing Hariz around the house! At this age, all he ever wanted is being free and careless.

Hariz turned 1! (few weeks ago)

Oreo ice cream cake

Family from both sides, wan and me.

All he ever wanted is the knife. not the cake!

This hat stays for 5 seconds and later all those glittering stuff sudah tertanggal

His most favourite toy that moment ('that' because we didn't bring it back to penang. nanti jenoh tak mau keluar)

see how happy he was?

His fondness towards pink. I couldn't say more.

My sister bought this spray thingy that form snowlike bubble. 

He just loves it.

Happy 1st Birthday (again) Hariz sayang.

Finally mama buat party for you.

Better late than never right? :)

XOXO

Happy 1st Birthday my darling Hariz