Emir's Time Out

How do you discipline your child?

I love my son with all my heart and being... but sometimes, he does try my patience some times... like...he climbs tables and chairs (i do love the fact that he is being adventurous and that at this age, this is what they are supposed to do... but at the same time i dont want him to fall down and be hurt), you do know what I mean right...

We have cats at home and that there is a place for them to eat and drink in our kitchen and despite being reprimanded for the umptenth time, he would still go and play with the cat's dry food and their bowl of water. Everytime he does this, we would first wash his hands and then put him at his "time out" corner and told him repeatedly not to do that again.

Whenever we ask him whether he'd do this again, he'd seemed to understand that what he did was wrong and he would shake his head (and point out to the cat's eating area).

I would lecture him that those are not his toys and when I raise his voice he'd cry his heart out and this would break my heart. But I do have to do this so that he knows that whenever he did something wrong there will be consequences.

He knows that he is not to leave his "time out place" unless and until either mummy or daddy says it's ok and that he would "salam" and then give a hug to know that time out is over.

The rest of my family members would try their best to keep a straight face... I mean look at him:

I do hope that Erwin and I would be able to raise a good boy with a good sense in his mind and heart.

9.9.2009

We were invited to the celebrate the golden anniversary of 37th marriage of YB Datuk Dr Hj Wan Junaidi & YBhg Datin Feona Wan Junaidi @ Hilton... wonderful wonderful...

Insya allah, our marriage will last to the very last of our breathe... amin...

Anyhow, these are pictures taken that night:

Emir had a good time running across the big hallway outside the hall....

... plus he was being chased around by two girls hehehe.. Ariana and Alia...

The function lasted until almost midnight, so of course he fell asleep in the car after all the excitement... all in all he had a good time there and that is that matters right....

We enjoyed the makan-makan of course... ;)

hi tea

We like to eat.. that's what we do ... we enjoy our food and one of our fav hang out is at Hilton's waterfront cafe.

We like our hi-tea, where we can just sit around and relax and enjoy various types of food...

Emir had a good time there and here are some pictures taken of the day's outting :

take care peeps

~anor~

snippets of raya

Ramadhan came and left in a blink on an eye this year... is it just me or do you feel the same?

Yesterday night (Sun @ 4.10.2009), my family and I finally managed to steal some time to visit our NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOURS, believe you me? Of course they welcomed us into their homes in their non-raya customes hehehe.... but the visiting must go on right?

Plus this raya, we had to choose compulsory houses of family members prior to visiting otherwise we'd be home by midnight and it is not easy visiting with a baby in tow...

Anyhow, these are some pictures of little Emir during this Hari Raya:

Selamat hari raya and Maaf Zahir Batin

Erwin Effendy Sajali

Anorrisah Mohd Nassir

Emir Effendy bin Erwin Effendy

a good time at sarawak club

I am an avid fan... no, actually addicted to vietnamese prawn at Sarawak Club.... Yesterday Mon (5.10.09) we had lunch there with our good buddy Bob @ Uncle Bob to our little boy EMIR...

Believe it or not... most likely those who knows me would believe it.. i finished the whole bowl of a 39gm worth of prawns all by myself!

During the first tri-mester of my pregnancy with Emir, there are times when I couldnt hold any food at all and there are times when I could just eat a whole lot but when it comes to buffet, my pregnancy seems to be agree-able to eating and eating and eating... if my memory serves me right, I went to a lot of buffets with Erwin and Bob during my pregnancy...

I suppose that's why Emir had this kinship with his Uncle Bob and an immediate liking to him =)

He had memories of him since even before he was born =)

Anyhow, Emir saw some huge sized toys there and couldnt resist (of course) playing there despite the hot sun....

Emir said "Vrooommmm....."

Injection

It's the fourth day of raya and we decided to bring Emir to see Dr Alex of Normah Medical Special Centre (NMSC) for his shot. This time around it's for polio and tetanus shot I think.

Initially the shot was supposed to be on the 22.9 but it was a public holiday so they called to come to another date instead. Hence many parents decided to bring their children to nmsc today too and hence the one hour waiting.

What Emir did while waiting for his turn:

In the mean time, Emir's weight now is 11.8 - 12kg kg and Dr Alex said it's a good no. Alhamdulillah.

We're happy. His next shot would be after he turns 2 which is 5 months from now on 28.02.010. Then we spent the whole afternoon at the SPRING cause we wanted some sense of something normal after the chaotic visiting raya for the past three days. Emir did the no 2 at mph bookstore so we wanted to go and change his popo pants but the thing was he was screaming his head off refusing to let go of this animal book so Erwin said to just pay off the book. So I did. Turned out it was RM47.10! Not that I want to be stingy with my own anak but it's meant for a three year old.

Emir said Duck-ie"

I suppose that explains the fascination with the book because 1. he recognises the ducklings pic on the cover of the book and 2. everytime he takes his bath there will be his duck-ies accompanying him =)

These are pictures taken prior to the popo incident. He saw these two girls reading at a corner so he grabbed a book (yes, you guessed it correctly - the book from the popo screaming head incident ) and joined in :)

The both of us combined and later on his grandparents couldn't compete with his endless energy. At his grandparents' house he was climbing and running and laughing and dancing and singing... Well, you get the picture.

Kitchen Aid Artisan

Speaking of pictures, here are some of things we did today: at Parkson Grand, Erwin found my "dream"...... I SO want this for myself despite having bought myself one heavy duty mixer.

In the mean time, Emir thought the magnetic price tag was a handphone so he decided to say hello ;P



Later that night I had fever aiyaa... In fact got some baking to do... Aiyaa...

Our First Open House @ Sun @ 27.9.2009

Ok, It's the day before our open house and in actual fact we've been planning for the past three except then there were not enough manpower until both my sis and cousin were transferred back to Kuching both respectively from Johor and KL.

Of course we slept late that night preparing for the two main dish chicken soto and spaghetti (the main chef was my sister of course! Kudos to her for preparing both dishes which got many praises from our guests).

Erwin's mom made chicken briyani and dhal and we ordered 250 pieces of satay . I baked cupcakes too (later didn't have the time to make the buttercream and served them plain - which was better coz later on we packed them individually and gave them away as door gifts). Over all it was a success! We are happy!

Alhamdulillah, guests were all well fed, angpows and cupcakes were all given away. Emir didn't want to sleep what with all the raya open house commotion but later one when Kak umi (one of his pengasuh (nanny) from the nursery came, it took her a few minutes to make little Emir fall asleep - we call it the nanny power). He slept almost two hours which gave us ample time to entertain our guests.

From this first experience, we now know and Insya allah would be more prepared for next year's open house.

One of the changes we would make would be time would be allocated for each family members' guests to come for eg Erwin's friends would come from such and such time, then it'd be for my guests etc etc all in all, we had a good time, tiring but a satisfying experience ......

We didn't have time to take pictures of our first raya but the aftermath picture says it all: anyways, Selamat hari raya peeps and maaf zahir batin and may Allah swt blesses us all!