Play Zone...

Its yellow...its full of cars, tools, balls and tractors too. Aydin`s room now is now almost complete. Next in the line is that puppy pony ride thingy and that Thomas and Friends study table hehehe..

Uncle Baby

Congrats to Nenek Dem on the birth of Aydin`s new uncle baby on the 28th March 9:00am.

Congrats!

Long Pause...

Its been a while since we last updated this blog. Daddy have been quite buzy lately with some changes in the workplace and still trying to get the hang of a new job, new team, new boss etc. Actually the real reason is i am quite hung up with my new toy.. an advance gift from mommy for my coming Bday in April. Its the greatest toy ever invented for boys i.e. PS3. The thing is i effectively only have 2 hrs at night 3 times a week to play it at home..and this 2 hrs is split into surfing, blogging, photo editing, gaming and watching my TV box series.

Aydin is growing and he is getting bigger and louder everyday. He can almost run now and his personality is slowly showing day by day. He obviously is quite determine, sweet and will not stop until he gets what he wnts. We also learned that he is quite possesive of his own things making play dates with Dalila now a battle of wills. Play time usually now involve pulling, pushing, screaming and crying. More often than not..Aydin will cry as Dalila just wont give up and will climb on him if she have to..cute.

Did we also mentioned that we moved to a new house? The house is really nice and Aydin now has his own play room.ywllow in colour with lots and lots of toys inside. Will post some pics..if i have time.!

Cheers

Aydin Singapore pics

2nd Day otw to Suntec

In the taxi bored

Mommy have to catch after he tried to make a run at the escalator

Same like toilet in BeiribiShould i jump?

Bored in the stroller

Toys r us Paragon

Playground outside Toy r us

Thank god for this playground

Kesusuan

I was doing a little digging online about breastfeeding and wet nurses online. Why? Because there is a bit of paranoia and mystery about ‘kesusuan’

Breastfeeding is a big deal in Islam. In Al Baqarah, it is stated that a woman should breast feed ‘for two whole years’. This is what I am trying to do. Alhamdulillah its something I still can do with Aydin coming close to 13 months old.

About kesusuan, this is basically how in Islam children who are nursed by another person who is not their mother becomes in effect her child, her husband becomes their father, the children who also fed from her are in effect siblings through breastfeeding. And then the family rules apply, as in you may not marry from within that family, etc, etc.

So when hospitals accidentally feed breast milk to the wrong baby, is it a big deal? If a colleague accidentally brings home the wrong bottle of milk, should we panic?

It depends.

It turns out for a child under the age of two years, they would have to breastfeed 5 times to become ‘your’ child.

Interesting isn’t it? 5 times is a lot. I’ve known people to meltdown after one ‘accidental’ feeding of their milk to another baby. Me included here. I’m the one with the colleague who wandered off with my milk by accident. A bit of a hazard when we both use Avent bottles.

Now I know to tell myself, its ok… you’ll be more careful. For it to happen another 4 times, it has to be on purpose kan? hehe

Aydin first holiday trip

I should say...traveling with a toddler is really a test of your physical and mental fitness. Physical as in to be able to withstand at least 10kg weight on one arm for hours and at least another 5 on the other (shopping bags) and in my case at least an extra 5kg on my shoulder ( my camera gear)...not a good idea. Mentally..is to be able to withstand their need to play, to walk around, to be entertain, to be fed, to be clean and probably the most difficult of all to guess what they want and need at a particular point of time.

A colleague of mine..a mother to three once said to me traveling with her kids is not relaxing at all. I dont understand that ..what more could she ask for being off work, overseas in a nice hotel with nice pools and shopping centres with her loved ones..but now i think I will have to agree with her.. However despite all this..we had so much fun. For me the last time i probably took care of him completely was when Widdy was still out from the operation the first two weeks he was born. Since then we always had help either from grandparents or our maid or now maids.

We had such a tight schedule and it all involved hours of moving about around Singapore either by foot, strollers or taxis. Proud to say we did it all...we went to all the places we wanted to go, eat and see. We did all our shoppings...we went to the zoo...we went to Sentosa to see the fish and eat at all of our favourite places. In most cases we have to improvise to suit to his needs..i.e. invest on a new strollers that can recline completely so he can sleep comfortably while we shop...rush to starbucks whenever he fell asleep...strictly start the day at 9 and end at 6pm..early dinner..pit stops at playground and toys r us..and for mommy invest on some cool looking breastfeeding outfits to be able to instantly feed him on demand anytime anywhere.

The only one thing that probably we need to work on is our patience or my patience to his sometime challenging demands. Its not about satisfying it...but its about figuring out what they need or want in the first place. This can be mighty difficult especially now he knows to say No or rigorously shake his head if he dont want something. Similarly he sticks his finger in his throat and throws up when he doest get his way...hmm.

All in all..Alhamdulilah he has been such a good boy. He eats and sleep well..and we are glad to be safe back at home. For us i think we bought all the things we want to buy and at i think we both did too well in this department. A friend of mine said to me that see it as a gift to yourself for being a good parent hahahha..

Pimp my ride

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