Open House and short trip to Genting

Puas menahan nafsu untuk mengupdate blog dari hari Isnin. Tapi Isnin dan Selasa memang dah diiktiraf sebagai Hari Gila Sedunia. Rabu masih lagi busy akibat daripada dua hari yang gila sebelum itu.

Haa..Khamis ni baru dapat bernafas sikit.

Last weekend, kami ke open house rumah my aunt di Bentong. Seronok jumpa relatives especially cousin.

Kami masa kecil-kecil...

Masa darjah 4 you!

 Kami masa muda belia....

 Kami maintain muda!

Selain makan-makan, kita nyanyi-nyanyi. Fuh dah 2 tahun mak tak karaoke.. Sebaik pitching maintain 5-octet.

Feeling Diva.

Tengok budak setahun mengada tak nak kat orang..

Tapi kalau dengan abang Hazim... bukan main yer!

Precious evening with family..

Alang-alang dah kat Bentong, teruskan saja pendakian ke Tanah Tinggi Genting..

Priceless moment with my family.

Amir Hidayat Syah, Happy 1st Birthday!

Mula-mula macam ni....

6 bulan selepas kelahiran..

Setahun kemudian....

Don't grow up too fast  :(

362 Hari Bersama Amir

Lagi 3 hari sebelum tarikh hari jadi Amir yang pertama (English Calendar), 12 September. Sempena birthday Amir yang pertama ni, terimalah award-award yang berikut dari ibumu ini:

1) Cannot-wait Unborn Baby Award
Masa 31 minggu dalam perut, Amir dah sibuk mengetuk pintu untuk keluar. But the highway wasn't ready. Terpaksa mommy tidur di hospital beberapa hari untuk doctor monitor in case deliver pre-mature baby. Tidak cukup dengan itu, gagal di percubaan pertama, Amir kembali mengetuk pintu untuk keluar, dan di hospital lah mommy tidur untuk beberapa hari lagi masa kandungan berusia 34 minggu. Akhirnya, genap 9 bulan, terus Amir menendang-pecah air ketuban tanda 'I can't wait any longer, bring me out!'


2) Selective Baby Award
Memandangkan Amir dah memecahkan air ketuban, terpaksa lah mommy admit di Hosp Kuala Pilah. Pecah pula masa raya ke-2, lupakan lah sahaja niat nak ke UKMSC. Trafik tidak mengizinkan. Orang kata, bila dah pecah air ketuban, gesa sakit bersalin / contraction akan jadi cepat. Satu malam suntuk mommy tunggu, tak datang lagi contraction. Doctor kata pulak, kalau takde contraction, tak boleh nak check dilation etc. Maka, mommy tak tahu la bila boleh Amir keluar. Menyebabkan, keesokkannya Baba memecut laju ke UKMSC bawak mommy. And of course Amir sekali yang masih dalam perut. Ingatkan nak lahir September, 11th. Huh. Di sana juga lah Amir telah selamat dilahirkan, yakni tempat kita checkup tiap-tiap bulan dengan doktor yang setiap kali pergi scan dia akan sindir Amir dengan berkata 'Ini memang takde orang lain dah, memang dia lah tu' Tulah, sapa suruh Amir terkangkang luas sangat.

3) Hair-less Baby Award
Tulah, Amir keluar cepat no. Rambut kurang, bulu kening n bulu mata pun takde lagi! Bila dah besar sikit, barulah nampak halus-halus je rambut yang tumbuh. Sekali masa 1-2 bulan, bahagian tengah rambut pulak gugur! Alamak baru je nak tumbuh..

ha.. kan dah mcm professor kat Oxford

See.. takde kan?

4) High-pitch Cries Baby Award

Bila Amir keluar aje dari tummy mommy, Amir tidur. Senyap. Tak bergerak. I'm scared to death. Dalam masa beberapa minit yang Amir senyap takde respond tu, macam-macam dah mommy fikir. Sampai menangis sebab risaukan Amir. Prof Hashim kata Amir is going to be okay. Tapi mommy tengok nurse still struggle nak 'wake up' kan Amir. Mommy menangis lagi sampai... You took turn, menangis kuat gila sampai satu wad dengar!


5) Jaundice Baby Award
Jaundice adalah normal for a newborn baby especially the first fortnight. By right, jaundice will disappear later by 14 days of life. Tapi, bagi kes si comel Amir, dah sebulan pun masih nampak kuning-kuning lagi. Dan reading jaundice sangat tinggi iaitu 300, siap bila dah turun reading tu.. beberapa hari kemudian naik lagi ke 300. 2 kali admitted hospital.

Ni selepas discharged from hospital kali pertama, hari ke-5. Masih kuning.

Hari ke-14, kena repeat blood test. Masa ni reading consider tinggi, kalau tak silap reading masih 180-200.

6) Colic Baby Award
Sejurus selepas mommy and baba berhenti risau pasal jaundice, blood test result from hospital is positive, Amir takde sakit apa2 kecuali ada G6PD deficiency. Kami discover Amir ada 'penyakit' lain - Colic. Amir menangis sekurang-kurangnya 3 jam sehari, sekurang-kurangnya 3 hari seminggu without fail. Ini bermula since Amir 1 bulan sehinggalah 3 bulan - chronic. Lama-lama, colic Amir disappear. Tapi rasanya masa umur Amir 6 bulan, barulah mommy and baba betul2 boleh menarik nafas lega.

7) The Serious-ness Baby Ever Award
Tak payah lah susah-susah nak describe. Pictures tell thousand words.

Classic!



8) Clingy Baby Award

Well, I said enough in the previous entry.

9) Mommy's Cutest Baby Award

Memandangkan Amir takde adik beradik lain lagi, Amir lah pemenangnya! (At least Amir kalahkan baba)

I heart this picture. Masa ni Amir sebulan lebih. Pipinya gembol. Your eyes are small but your eyeballs are so round and black. Kepala amir is so bulat and quite big hehe. Your skin is so fine. And you always smells good  :)   Owh, I'm so missing that moment when you were still a baby.

10) Baba's great friend Award

WHEN YOU ARE BOTH SLEEPING!

Amir,

Happy Becoming Birthday. I don't have to say the three words. I know you know.

xoxo

Mommy

Best way to deal with clingy baby?

I need a miracle answer!

Amir is so much like a clingy baby.  He shrieks when I put him down and started to walk away. Flashback; I noticed he started this since 4 months old. Which I assumed, it's just a sign of him noticing common faces surround him. When someone else carry him, he started restless. No cries just restless. The real separation anxiety happened when he was 6 months old. Even though I tell him I’ll see him soon, he thinks, “It’ll be ages before I see my mum again.”

Some pictures, recently taken.. Umur dah dekat setahun pun, I thought this clingy-thingy will outgrows when he becomes older - or maybe 1 year is not old enough - or once he becomes older he is more aware and more mature understanding of the world around him.

Menangis sakan lah, mommy letak dia sorang-sorang. Padahal mommy pergi ambil camera and cepat2 ada depan mata balik nak capture gambar. Siap amek camera lari pecut 100 meter. Kadang-kadang dari dapur mommy menyelinap lari masuk bilik air pun Amir perasan. Dengar bunyi dari tempat lain, pun Amir tau that must be my mommy hiding. So it's a very tough work for Ami to handle him when I was up and about doing something else.

Kalau dengar Amir giggle main dengan Baba while I was in the bathroom, tersengih-sengih sorang-sorang. Tak sampai berapa minit dah dengar dia nangis balik. Sigh.

Some babies are very independent, and don't think much of sitting and cuddling. Most babies like to be cuddled. But Amir is a super cuddly, possessive, demanding personality baby. Susah nak distract dia dengan benda lain if he wants mommy. Sampai mommy sampai la baru dia berhenti menangis. I can't seem to leave without him getting upset. He used to warm up to anyone, but now he clings to me whenever a stranger approaches like nobody business!

But chances are for a case like this, he will be close to you when he is older and a bigger help than some children who are more independent from the start.
~I wish. Atau inilah akibat selalu ejek suami 'Mommy's boy' Huahuahua. Sorry yang!

Thing is, there are times I have to work, bending and twisting, using both arms, but when he is awake ---> these times, a closed door between me and Amir's screams!  It preserves my sanity and patience! Then I became a Mommy Monster. And that's not all, I also got criticized for holding my extra needy baby too much  :(   Very unusual for me to let Amir screams for longer than five minutes. 5 minit pun tak pernah sampai kot. Takkan nak tunggu he becomes hysterical. Sometimes I feel like wanna close the door when I have to, and hold on! Some might called Amir, crying baby - well, he was.. masa baby sangat dulu. When we were somewhere else with others, I have to mingle around, lend hands to do some work - that is a perfect time for Amir to scream. By right, Amir is just a happy baby.

Especially, time like this.....

When mommy laid down, he will slowly crawl and landing. Peace. It can last long.



Different people might have different perception of this situation. Those who came across the exact same situation and those who are not. But who said you did anything wrong? It's the baby that has no understanding the concept of time, when you're saying "Just a minute," you may as well be saying "Just a millennium." So instead of letting Amir cries and screams I would rather sit by his side, and let him explore his surroundings. I'm sure learning to separate from Mom is difficult. It's difficult for an adult too  :(

I'm waiting for Amir's 'hatching' process, he will surely realize there's a whole world out there apart from mom. And mom can come back to baba   *wink*wink*



I can't wait the time where I canstood up right away, "And it came to pass!"

♫Selamat Hari Raya.. Hari untuk kita bergembira.. La la la la♫♪

Perjalanan pulang ke kampung beraya tahun ini adalah ---> Kuala Pilah > Muar > Kuala Pilah > Kajang. Lucky enough semua tempat tersebut belah Selatan. Memang masa nak kapel dengan Ami dulu tanya dia orang mana, part of consideration, takut bergaduh nak balik raya bila dah kawen   ;p


2 hari before raya, kami pulang ke kampung halaman si isteri di KP. Tempat tumpah darah juga tumpah air ketuban si isteri.

Entah kenapa Amir masa cuti hari raya ni, pantang mak dia lesap dari pandangan, terus dia mengiak (tangisan yang dibuat-buat). Takde air mata. Tapi bunyinya amat bising. Tetap ball tak dilepaskan dari tangan.

Kalau emak ada tercongok depan mata, okay je dia main.

Next day, sehari before raya, kami meneruskan perjalanan ke Muar, tampat tumpah darah suami.

Amir and his great grandmother, Tok Nek.

Aktiviti malam raya; duduk kat tangga sambil tengok kanak-kanak main bunga api, dan dengar orang sebelah sinun main meriam buluh.

♫♪ Hari ini Hari Raya ♫♪

Main songkok, mau. Pakai songkok, tak mau.

Potret pertama keluarga kami di hari raya, taken by self-timer. Blue is the new black, yaw!

Gambar Amir pakai songkok selama beberapa saat.

Me and in laws.

(Bengang betul lense kamera buat hal di pagi raya. Gambar semua blur esp sapa dok kat tengah. Ceit.)

Ang-pow time!

Amir: Hey, Adam that's my ang-pow!

Petang raya pertama, keluar beraya ke Wetex Parade.

Tempat mommy dating outing masa sekolah dulu.

~ 2nd Raya, mama buat kenduri kesyukuran di rumah Tok Nek. Kami pun ambil kesempatan celebrate birthday Amir sekali. Alang-alang semua sedara-mara ada kat situ. It was one day in advance, Amir was born on 3rd Syawal 1431H.

Dah selesai semua event di Muar, kami start packing nak ke Kuala Pilah semula before balik KL.


Ini hasil anak dah umur setahun.. Tolong kemas barang2 yang mommy dah kemas.

Kemuncak kepada rembesan adrenalin semasa mengemas barang!



Seterusnya pulang ke Kota Keriangan mommy, Kuala Pilah.

3rd Syawal, kami adakan majlis di Kuala Pilah pula --> Kenduri arwah bagi yang dah tiada especially my mom and Bang Lang, kenduri kesyukuran sambung belajar, doa selamat my MIL nak buat operation after Raya dan celebrate birthday Amir.

We were so happy to have Bang Lang's family with us :)

My beloved sis in laws; Kak Taty and Kak Ben.

4 orang hero cucu Tok Janggut...

Yang lain-lain...

WHO RUNS THE WORLD? GIRLS!

Sekitar majlis hari jadi Amir yang pertama....

Collect duit raya dari banker.

The company.

Amir and bestfriend, Pak Su. The only family member yang boleh dukung + main dengan Amir tanpa Amir mengiak.

Thanks to ibu and Abang Hazim sudi datang ke majlis kami. Amir sedikit mengada, tak nak kat ibu la kunun...

All and all, that day was so blissful.

The only smiley face we managed to capture. Yang lain cembeng.

Raya kan sebulan, katanya. Next stop, beraya di Kajang pula.

Aysha, the eldest among others.

Amir, the manness.

Amilia, the youngest.

Dah besar sangat la setahun tu, dah keluar dating??

Itulah cerita raya tahun ini. Memang sakan sebab last year tak dapat raya sebulan ;p

Alhamdulillah, raya kami ni semuanya berjalan baik. Tidak ada adegan baling pinggan bergaduh nak balik kampung sapa.