DIY Swing!

More fun activities following the Gymboree book! Babah and abang held on to the 2 ends of this giant blanket of ours while ickle me gets to be the lucky one to be swung on it! Look at how happy I am! It was soo fun!

Addin at 14 Months

Hi All! Another month of me growing up and Alhamdulillah, Mama said I'm progressing well! :D I am such a curious baby and am always keen to watch, observe what others are doing and then try and copy what they do. Like this microphone, I kept seeing Kakak singing into it so what else do I do once I get hold of it? Though I have to say Kakak's singing is much better than me!

Just like my siblings, I also have this signature frown and serious expression, especially when I just wake up or when I meet new faces. But Mama said that out of us three, I AM the least serious of us all because even though I have this serious expression, the next minute I can easily smile and laugh once someone talks or jokes with me!

As you know, I started walking at 11 months so I guess you can say I'm pretty stable now and thus I'm more confident running as fast as I can-which still leads me to have my bumps and bruises on my poor lil head! It's also quite a nitemare taking me out in public now because I'm not so keen on the stroller anymore and instead I just want to walk around and explore everything! Here I am checking out bedding at Aussino's at the Mall:

I am however still very compliant with the car seat and even though I've had in the past my crying bouts wanting to get out, I soon realised that brought no effect from the big people so I gave up complaining and learnt to entertain myself by reading books instead!

My fine motor skills is really good now and I can pick up the teeniest things from the floor - I just have to be watched over so that I don't put that teeny thing in my mouth! The other day, Mama prepared this game for us where we had to look for tiddlywinks in a bowl of salt and I found all THREE of them in MY bowl! Well Done ME! Look at how pleased I am when finding the first one! (Of course I kinda cheated when I poured all the salt on the floor first before starting my search!)
Other random updates of me:

• I can shake my head to say no-this I especially do when someone wants to carry me away from Mama;
• I hold my bottle myself but there are still times when I'm lazy to do it! And on that note, I've weaned off Mama and I'm only drinking one 6oz bottle of formula at night;
• I like to give people a High FIVE;
• I'm not scared to stroke our pet rabbits Oreo and Snow White (which we haven't blogged about I just realised) when initially I was terrified of being near them;
• I'm can make bababoo, nananni, tati, dadi sounds;
• I say "MAMA" everytime I'm crying;
• I wave bye2 more these days and if you're lucky you get a flying kiss too!;
• I get a bit startled and stare back hard when Mama gets upset with something I did;
• I don't give in anymore when Abang and Kakak wants something I have;
• I can point to the light and the fan (and with my index finger) when asked to;

Till next month! Toodles!

Picnic Anyone?

Look at this GLORIOUS picnic I've laid out for my teddy bears and I! I just love to sit around and chill out with my dear teddy bear friends, especially since Barnaby (the one seated on the white chair on the right end) was joining me just for the school holidays! I hope I fed everyone well and proved to be a gracious host! I worked really hard to prepare this feast you know!

Excited for the Australian Open

Oooh I'm so excited the Australian Open has just started.. Now I can learn more skills from my heroes Nadal and Federer! Always good to start training early right?!

Making Play-Doh

Abang and I just LOVE to play with play-doh and we're always asking babah to buy us new pots at every visit to Bebeland. I think mama's been ingau about spending too much on this so she looked up on how to make our own and that's what we did yesterday! And we are here to teach you...

You need a cup of flour, a cup of salt, a cup of water(not pictured), a tablespoon of vegetable oil (also not pictured), a tablespoon of cream tartar and colourings!

This is our step by step guide:

1. Pour the flour into a bowl (that's me pouring!)

2. Then pour a cup of salt (fine salt)- and that's abang seriously pouring:

3. Put in a tablespoon of tartar cream and stir the mix:

4. Get a cup of water from the tap and pour into the mix:

5. Mix in the vegetable oil and put into a pot and quickly simmer it over low heat until the mix becomes sticky:

6. Once they're cool, roll them up into balls and start to put colouring in them and blend the colours into the balls:

THERE YOU HAVE IT! PLAY DOH! (The blue one is bigger cos we had to use two balls cos abang poured too much blue colouring!)

And then we play with it!

Here I am making spaghetti and cupcakes!

And now whenever they get dry, we just make new ones! Saves time and money to not have to go to Bebeland anymore!

Lil Alisha News

Hi all! It's been a while since my last update huh! Well, I am 2 years and 5 months now and mama's always saying how amazed and a bit sad she is at how fast I'm growing up! I still love to stay and play at home so I have no plans to start school anytime soon even though abang started when he was 2 years 7 months. When mama asks me if I want to go to school, I directly say "no.. I like to stay home". I think for now it's enough for me to visit schools when I send abang off or pick him up. I still don't dare venture out on my own just yet! Maybe we can give it another year ma?

It's not so surprising though if you know what I get up to at home! As always, I'm still loving the playroom we've got and am constantly playing with everything in there. Now, my favourite thing to do is to bake or play anything to do with cakes. I love to cut up the wooden birthday cake that we have and serve it to everyone (and make sure they pretend to eat it!) and lately, I've been bugging mama to make real cake in the kitchen too! She told me that she already bought the ingredients to make a NY Strawberry Cheesecake so hopefully she'll keep her word and we can start making that soon!

I also love love love to play with bubbles at home, especially since usu bought me a giant bottle of gazillion bubbles from her KK visit. I love playing it so much that we've actually finished the whole bottle in just 3 days! I love blowing the bubbles and catching them!

haiya!! too many bubbles to catch laaahhh

Remember how I used to not bother changing into my swimming costume and get myself wet etc etc.. Well I've forced myself to make more effort lately and agreed to change into it during our recent picnic at Angel Beach..

And also during Eljaz's 3rd birthday party last Sunday.. I still wasn't completely happy though as you can see from my face- but the important thing is I TRIED right.. jan krg menyasal!

I also love to sing nursery rhymes and though I sing in tune, sometimes I sound a bit "rocker" ish when I sing! When mama ask me if I'm a rocker, I say "nooo, I'm a tiger!"

I love to sing "where is thumbkin?" especially and I would do all the finger gestures too whilst singing it. That song AND the barney song which I love to sing together with mama..

noooo, i'm a tigerrrrr.. rroooaarr!!!

Where is pointy where is pointy? here i am, here i am

Some other tidbits about me:

• I love to go through the Gymboree activity book with mama to find things to do - again, who needs school?!

• I have chosen my fave Hi-Five members! Out of the 5, I like Kelly, Nafan and Tim!

• I've making the transition to soymilk which we hope will help me with reducing and eventually eliminating my excema dry skin.. though I still like to eat my cereal with normal milk. but we're working on it! I do drink my chocolate soymilk every nite though. Oh and since I didn't update this last time, I stopped drinking formula milk like 4 months ago already!

• I'm fully potty trained during the day! Yay for me! Though I still run to the toilet like my life depended on it everytime I want to wee-wee!

• I tend to copy everything abang says. Like yesterday, I liked something mama said and so I told her "Good idea mama!" Belabih kan!

• The other day I got really worried about mama when she cut her toe and there was blood.. I just sat outside the bathroom and watched her wash he wound and felt compelled to say "mama I miss you.."

• I know basic colours like red, yellow, orange, blue and green and my faves are purple and pink!

• I'm constantly carrying around mama's muji tops (which comes in white, beige and black so at least I always have one when another's in the wash) because I like the feel of it to stroke and pinch!

• I love Disney princesses, especially Cinderella and have discovered Disneyland so I'm gonna tagih from babah and mama to go there one day!

Phew! That was a long one! Till next time, toodles!

Ready for Umrah

After the scarves play, mama, auntie ida and auntie nur had more fun putting the tudungs on us! Look at how ayuu I look..

Yes, you read right.. I said "us" as opposed to "me"! Abang didn't really mind this time (he usually does) because mama coaxed him into thinking that he's the Pink Panther which he loves to watch nowadays!

And then we couldn't leave Addin out can we? Doesn't he look sooo cute in the green scarf (at least he's not wearing it in the style of how a woman wears it!)

Astaghfirullah!!! Okay, to make them feel better (especially when they see this when they're older), I shall post a pic of how my brothers usually look!

But still you gotta agree them wearing the tudungs were kinda funny? hehehe

Flying Colours

Mama and I got this play idea from this book so we dug out some of mama's millions of colourful tudungs and threw them in the air and got these awesome pics out of it! It also helped abang and I with our throwing high up in the air skills and it helped me in identifying colours!

Of course abang can throw so much higher than me! But doesn't the pics look funny? the scarves look like they're gonna hit abang!

now me having a go!

Of course, as usual, whenever Abang and I play together, the fun lasts for about 5 minutes and then this will happen:

WE FIGHT!!!!! Well it was fun while it lasted!

Pweshes Addin at 13 months

Mama just loves taking pics of me!

I am 13 months today and thought I'd just make a quick update about myself:

1. I am seriously really busybody and do not like to be left alone! If I see abang and kakak doing something, I will check up on them and try to gatecrash my way in.. If I see babah or mama doing something with abang or kakak, again, I will definitely walk over and try to ngintu in.. inda mau rugi bah!

2. I'm still babbling away and finally started to make ba, ma, ta sounds and the way I talk has more range and music to it now like as if I'm really speaking even though it's meaningless to others when they hear it!

3. But I understand a lot more what is told to me- I look for all the members of the family when asked and whenever I get asked where's Elmo (who, like Kakak, I really wove too!), I either point to the big Elmo doll on the shelf or I go and get the Elmo's Birthday Party book which is my new favourite book after Zoe's Happy Faces! I sure do love those Sesame Street characters!

4. And when I read the book, I can point to "balloons", "rabbit", "ernie" and "bert" in the book too!

5. I find it sooo hard to sleep at night now as I just can't stop playing. It seems that I'm sleeping the last (after abang and kakak) and mama knows when exactly I'm just going to doze off because my rolling around and my babbles would just be at their peak and all of a sudden, I'd just all asleep!

6. when told to "salam", I know how to walk up to elders now and take their hands and kiss it!

7. I just love pushing everything I see that has wheels! Nenek bini thinks I should start mowing the lawn soon!

8. My balance and coordination is getting really good as I can walk independently whilst carrying quite heavy things at the same time! Besar hawa!

9. I love to play bubbles with my mouth!

10. I'm beginning to fight more with abang and kakak now and am not letting go easily over something like I used to be!

Till next time! Toodles!

Grocery Shopping

I love how Hua Ho Supermarket in Manggis has these mini trolleys for us kids! Usually I'd get kinda bored following mama around and her trolley but now I can do my own shopping at the same time! U wanna know what was in my trolley? I had my packs of orange juice, my favourite fruits bananas and oranges and 2 packs of chocolate milk!

As soon as I saw abang with his trolley, I screamed for my own!! I loved it so much that I didn't wanna let it go even when it was paying time!