shmontel

Chitterchatter

Sarah 2 years to 2y2mons milestone was focusing more on her language and speech development. I’m continuously amazed by her ability to construct sentences and her expression when talking. It used to be just “main!”, then “main.playground!” and now she can say one full sentence “kakak.nak.main.playground.cantik!” (yeah, with pauses in between words, LOL, semput!). Her speech development really helps us to know her needs, her wants, her feelings and her opinion on something. Here’re few interesting conversations we had with her for the past 2 months. (Note: she still couldn’t pronounce her name well, it would be either Tayah, Cayah, Qaitayah, Qaicayah or simply Qaicahh. *hehe*)

[pic taken at the supercool wading/swimming pool, Domain Condo, Cyberjaya)

On “i’m big enough i know what is good/bad”

SCENE 1:  I was having my sekali-sekala dose of TV at her opah’s house when she went to the TV and turned it off. Looking at me, with her index finger swaying in front of her face, she said “No TV! No Cartoons!” ………………… o_O. Dude, girl, i’m not even watching a cartoon show! *goshhh* she already developed her kakak-ness, showing some authority in the house! (and who ever made the rule in this house to cannot watch any cartoons anyway?)

SCENE 2: Sometimes i wear those small tshirts with wide neck at home. And came that lil goody-2-shoes, pulling up my shirt neckline from above the boobs to the neck and said “Tutup, tutup!”…………omg, Ustazah alert! xkasi can mama show some cleaveage at home langsung!

SCENE 3: Before going to bed, we usually read some story books. Nama pun getting-ready-for-bed kan, so  i crossed one leg and the other leg straight on the bed, freestyle lahh. However, Sarah seems like couldn’t concentrate reading, instead she just have to say this to me….. “Sit prop(er)ly, cross your legs” (while trying to lift my leg into ‘bersila’ position). OMGgggodd! i could see mr.Daddy was restraining himself from laughing while solat that time, and yeah, *bedebush* to mama: ‘shame on you!’ . She must’ve learn that at school coz i know the kids usually sit on the floor, and she’s now repeating what she experienced at school to me!!

A conversation during dinner time:

• Me : Sarah, you want some more chicken?
• Sarah: Want some more chicken.
• Me : (Putting a chunk of chicken meat in her bowl)
• Sarah: (Struggling to cut the chicken into small pieces with her plastic spoon)
• Me: You want me to help you to cut the chicken?
• Sarah: (shake heads. continue trying to cut the chicken, vigoroulsy.seems very hungry. hmmm.)
• Me: Mama promise mama potong chicken cepat-cepat, ok?
• Sarah: (Looking at me, handing over her spoon for me to cut the chicken, and said…) Cepat, mama! cepat, mama! faster, mama! faster, mama! (repeat this in a cheer-like rhythm for 15-20 seconds, till i finish cutting the chicken!)
• Me & mr.Daddy: (LOLs)

CONCLUSION: She didn’t want her mama to help her prolly because “mama potong chicken lembab giler okeh!”. *huahuaaa*. Btw, she does eat a lot if she’s really hungry! (and she loves ONIONS. yeah, onions that you use to sautee Ayam Masak Kicap tu!)

A conversation before i go to work:

• Me : ok Sarah. Mama’s going to work. See you in the evening!
• Sarah: Sarah nak ikut mama (go to) work. Kakak nak pergi mama’s office.
• Me : What are you going to do at mama’s office? Mama nak buat kerja, nak taip kerja (*gosh* such boring work your mama does, honeyh!)
• Sarah: Kakak nak tolong mama. Kakak nak tolong mama type type type (insert *mukacebek* here)
• Me : ?!

CONCLUSION: What a kind-hearted daughter i have, huh? Lucky me my daughter insist on being my typist! LOL

Another conversation before i go to work (after sending her home from school in the afternoon):

• Me : Mama pergi office dulu, Sarah. Bye!
• Sarah: Kakak nak ikut pergi mama’s officcccce…
• Me : You rest at home ok? Kakak penat pergi school tadi kan? Kakak tidur la dekat rumah. Ofis mama tak ada katil, ada kerusi je.
• Sarah: (insert *optimisticface* here) Kakak (boleh) tidur atas keruci??!
• Me: ?!!

CONCLUSION: Problem solving bebeh, problem solving. You don’t have bed at work, i can still sleep on the chair! As long as you bring me along!!

[pic taken at manmade beach, near Pullman Lakeside Hotel, Precinct 5, Putrajaya]

All together now: RumparooooOOOOooz!

Thank you TinyTapir for getting me to brag blog again.

Ladies and gentleman, I’m now very excited (flattered) & honored  be.causeeee….. i, me, moi, yes meee… have won my first blog giveaway!! weeheee!! suka suka! And what did i win? I won a cloth diaper! (haha, kecoh je..!) A super cool cd i believe coz TT recommended it!. Thank you, TT! I know this time i’ll get my prize (insyaallah) coz i’ve bought stuff from TT before, great service (great shop!), unlike the bw photo competition that i won before, which until now i didn’t get the sling that i won, huhu, segan dah nak contact the owner to claim the prize. Sorry K.Niza, i promised to give you the winning sling but looks like i just buy you a cooler prettier sling for your #2 later-later k? ;)

Back to RumparooOOOoooz (ok so I exaggerated on the O’s a bit, heh). Fyi, i’ve failed in cd-ing Sarah, coz i think i started a bit too late. By the time i bought the one and only cd i have (a new preloved Bumwear from TT swap meet), Sarah was ‘too toddler’ already and complained a lot the cd is ‘ketat’ la, ‘sakit perut’ la everytime she’s using it.  So no need to force her if she doesn’t feel comfortable or simply being a big girl wanted to have her own stand hehe. 

So who’s going to use this Rumparooz G2 cd? Definitely it’ll be for..„„*drumroll please** : THE LIL ONE IN MY TUMMY!!! yezza! Totally rezeki baby!, i submitted only 1 entry (max 5 entries) for the giveaway and the random number generator picked me! *Woot woot!* (i tell you i was NEVER lucky at lucky draws, unlike ma friend Nita who’s always the lucky one in the mbw community! *ahaks*)

Anyway, Alhamdulillah, (some of you already heard the news *wink*), obgyn has confirmed, and i had see myself in the sonogram last Saturday, a steady rhythm of heartbeat in my womb! (i was really paranoid that i would see the same result as my checkup in January :P). It even wiggles! (Do you think she/he can hear her big sista singing/dancing to Yo Gabba Gabba? Hmmm…). So there you go lil bun in the oven, your first baby shower gift from your own mama and the rest will be hand-me-downs from your big sista, ok tak? ! Hope you’ll give me some green spirit with this cd thing, yah?   And i pray that you’ll be perfectly healthy all the way thru the next 6-7 months so that we all can see you at the end of the year, and please let me blog more as i’m really.really not in the mood for blogging with all this morning sickness! **Hahhh so that’s the reason behind the lack of updates in Shmontel!** :P

(o yeah doc Hanim, it’s a December baby! *wink*). Have to wait until December and beyond for my Rumparooz G2 cd review ok?! ;) 

Happy Mama's Day

Sarah brought these from school on Friday. Awww!

During mama’s day dinner, she’s suppose to gimme a kiss on the cheek, but she pinched my nose instead! Sayang mama, eh!!

Happy Mother’s Day to mak, mummy and all moms out there! :)

Sports Day!

(Wow. This is really a belated entry!)

2 weeks ago, Sarah had her first ever Sports Day. We were really curious on what a bunch of 2-3 year olds would do during sports day!

There were 6 of them in Sarah’s team, and each of them had to fix 2 different body parts (drawn on hard paper) to an incomplete real-life size boy image on a board. Sarah was assigned to fix the boy’s feet (coz she’s the shortest i guess!). All the parents there cheered when each of them ran to the board, especially when a child’s parents started to cheer their kid by the name!!! So the whole spectators cheered them too. I was so afraid Sarah was going to chicken out with the amount of crowd around her (she’s shy around ppl, *surprised*? ), even me myself kept my distance from her while taking her pics, worried that she’s going to go cebek when she saw me (oh, she hate being photographed nowadays!). But surprisingly, sempat dia tease her daddy when she saw her Daddy was taking a video of her!!! haha…cheeky girl! She wasn’t conscious at all when the whole crowd were cheering “Qaisarah! Qaisarah! Qaisarah!”, wahhh„ really a Malaysian sportsman, need to be cheered baru ada semangat eh?!

All 6 children were winners! they received their Gold Medal by their principal right after the race! Hooray! I really wanted to post the video of the race, but unfortunately, UNFORTUNATELY, the video went corrupt as mr.Daddy was taking the video using his iPHONE, thus at the very moment of Sarah’s turn during the race, *KRING*KRINGGGGG* , the video SHUT OFF to give way for incoming call!!!! *arghhhhhh** tension tension. please mr.Daddy, buy that flip camcorder fast before we miss anymore important events!!!

Here’re some pics from the race (oh i wish i knew those ppl/parents with DSLR/p&s cams who took pictures that time, i’m not satisfied with my collection!!). 

Semua adalah pemenang, tiada yang pengalah! [sic]. Heh..

top 7, 6th & all 5

From Kayla (& Zoora): 
Thank you !!!! *mmuahs!*

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her awesome blog
2. Link the person you received your award from…
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs (in random and no particular order)

No. 1 mummy in the making & Distracted (by otherness) (haha…this award thingie will never end y’all!), Li Cheng’s b[l]og, *luv*, A Strange Kind of Charm, Sugar Spice & Everything Nice,  + a m u g o f c o f f e e f o r m e p l e a s e +

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From Zoora:

1. Go to your photos folder in your computer.2. Go to the 6th folder of photos.
3. Go to the 6th picture in that folder.
4. Put the picture on your blog and description of it.
5. Invite six friends to join the challenge.
6. Link them in your blog and let them know they have been challenged.

I was 6th month preggy (Sarah in the tummy). I like to berendam swim that time because i felt so much lighter in the water! I developed tHe fat face all throughout my pregnancy, therefore of course i cropped the pic before i let the public view it..heh heh..

Anybody hasn’t done this one? You’re cordially invited to join the ‘challenge’!

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From Zam:

Ok. This is a tough one. jenuh pikir tu la tak jawab2 tag ni. Can i answer this tag pretending it’s Sarah answering all this? Layan je la eh? ;)

A - 5 Names I go by

1. # Sarah - i’m known with this name
2. # Qaisarah - by teachers & friends. there’s another Sarah in the school.
3. # Kakak - by me
4. # BabyQai - from some family members who couldn’t bring themselves to call me Sarah
5. # Quesera-sera - circa newborn. People didn’t get Qaisarah’s the in-name that time. Thank you Kisah Kaisara the TV3 drama for the publicity. 

B: 5 Jobs I have had in my life

1. # Sweeper
2. # Biter
3. # Part time cleaner 
4. # Part time gardener 
5. # Xtreme sport athlete 

  My Xtreme sport passion: slides!!!! Left Pic: 2-storey high tunnel-slides—yup i went thru that one alone!!! (i don’t know what my parents were thinking that time, letting a 2y.o. playing at bigchildren slides! *shakeheads*) Right pic: Me and one of my slide-stunt - on my tummy!

C: 5 Places I have lived before

1. # Mama’s womb
2. # Opah’s house
3. # Mama+Daddy’s istana hinggap (stayed there for a week)
4. # Kakak’s house (yeah, this is MY house!)
5. # err…Kakak’s house, still?

D: 5 TV Shows that I watch currently

1. # Barney… “i love you you love me!”
2. # Upin & Ipin;  Episod 13 : Sayang Kak Ros “masak ayam gorenggg!!”
3. # Yo Gabba Gabba …”party in my tummy! tummy tummy tummy!”
4. # Baby Genius (lotsa fish!!!!) “>insert Mozart melody here<”
5. # some nursery rhymes series daddy downloaded…but now they’re all gone…huhu

E: 5 places I have been

1. # Singapore
2. # Langkawi
3. # Cameron Highlands
4. # Zoo Negara
5. # Aquaria KLCC

F: People that e-mail / contact me regularly

1. # Tok Ba / Tok Mi / Aya
2. # Opah / Atok / Mak Su “rinnnndu Mak Su” (everybody else all together now: uwekkkkk!!!!)
3. # Abang Omar
4. # My mama - when she’s outstation
5. # My daddy - when mama’s outstation he’s outstation too? hmmph…(?)

G: 5 of my favorite foods

1. # ‘Tiger’ biscuits “nak biscuit?”
2. # Chinese fried rice
3. # Calci-yum yogurt
4. # Vitagen
5. # Chocolates

H: 5 things I would like to do

1. # Scribble everywhere with my non-washable crayons 
2. # Play outside the house without my mama screaming “stay off the road!!!!!!”
3. # Eating more than 2 vitamins per day (daddy restrict only 2 vitamins/day. boohoo.)
4. # Drink gallons of cold water during dinner (i don’t understand why my parents don’t allow me to drink  before i finish my food!)
5. # Sliding down the the slides - HEAD first. 

I: 5 friends I think will respond

1. # Aunty Zoora
2. # Aunty Kayla
3. # Aunty Nazs (i’m not sure whether she has done this one. but i know she loves  this game ;) )
4. # Aunty Hanim
5. # Aunty Bai 

J: 5 Things I am looking forward to

1. # Potty trained («<mama said this, not me!!)
2. # Going to the playground
3. # More rides on the bus! 
4. # Bully my Mak Su again
5. # My school Sports Day this weekend (but i’m still not sure what am i suppose to do, o_O! :} )