Malaysian Wife, Australian Life

After watching an episode of Peppa Pig called "Work & Play" with Ayisha;  Me: Mummy work or play Ayisha?  Ha: Play  Me: Mummy work too. Mummy take care of you, make you breakfast, that's work right?  Ha: *Looking at me weird* Naaaaw...that's not work. Mummy just played Snap (Dora snap cards) with me. So mummy no work. Mummy play! Daddy work.  Chet...D**n you Peppa Pig!  Aaaanyways.....  Ramadan's here! Maaf Zahir & Batin from us and a blessed Ramadan to all. Happy fasting, happy praying, happy sharing and happy giving!! :)

Eliyas is already 6 weeks old.   He's at such a cute age where he's more alert during the day that we can have a little bit of a chat together. You know, the ones that come with deep meaningful looks, staring into each other's eyes, cute cooing noises coming from the both of us and him flashing what most definitely looks like a smile that melts my heart every time. Every little new thing that we experienced together would take me way back when I first had Ayisha.  He is Ayisha all over again in so many ways. They look so much like each other and have similar expressions and when I look back at Ayisha's baby photos, Eli is in each and every one of them but maybe a tad bigger, a little bit chubbier and a whole lot heavier. We went for our 6-week check up today and he's already 5.8kg! That's huge man. No wonder my arms get cramped when feeding him in the middle of the night. He also got his 1st immunisation and they're nasty nasty nasty! H...

Last week Ayisha turned 3.  She seems so big to me now - big feet, big hands, big hair and doing lots and lots more - lots of pretend playing, lots of daydreaming, lots of talking AND talking back with lots of attitude.  She's been looking forward to turning 3 for what must've felt like forever to her, constantly asking me "Am 2 now? 3 tomorrow?" or "Is my birthday tomorrow? Or tomorrow tomorrow (day after tomorrow)?".  So the day came and we had a Laidler family birthday dinner on her actual birth day, followed by a Cinderella Princess party on the weekend. It was a pretty last minute choice of theme made by Miss Squeaky.  Initially she wanted Dora again, like last year. I tried to talk her out of it for weeks but with no success. Then she got introduced to Peppa Pig by her cousin Abbey and got hooked. The next thing I know, she wanted a Peppa Pig party. My initial reaction? Shock shock, horror horror! Let's go back to Dora, Squea...