The first step

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Sarah took her first step, alHamdulillaah. She decided to show it off in font of tokpak, and luckily ibu was there to witness it. MashaAllaah, sarah eagerly walked on her own since then. From only single steps to a few steps in one day.

Independent is berdikari

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One afternoon after school, Adam came to me and proudly said," Ibu, today my teacher at school let me wash my cup after I've finished my milk."

Since then, I'll let him play with the dish soap and wash his cup and utensils himself. The same goes to Hajar. Maryam has not shown any interest in that area yet.

Hajar get to wash and clean her school shoes by herself after a few times of training..ehehheehe. She surely enjoyed playing with the brush and kapur kasut!, and to see the result:shining clean shoes!

I also let my syurgawan help me with the laundry. Whenever they offered to help, I'd give them the space. They sometimes raced to put the soiled clothes into the washing machine(which is fortunately a front loading washer), to put the detergent and softener into their respective compartments, to turn on the dials, and to push the buttons. I would be standing there to answer any questions they might have, and to manage any dispute between the siblings..ehehe.

We also had fun hanging the clothes to dry, and picking up the clothes at the end of the day. My syurgawan would ask "how to this and that?", "where to put this?", "should I do this?", "am I doing this correctly?", etc.
Adam enjoyed the 'you get the dried clothes from the rack, and throw them at me. I'll catch the clothes and put them into the basket' game. Ahahaha...an effective way to replace the 'throwing ball' game. I get my job done and my children had fun at the same time.

My syurgawan also get to have their hands on the mop, broom, vacum, etc. We do the cleaning chores together.

To sum up, this is not a child labor activity. This is to let them know I trust them. This is to let them be independent and be confident of themselves. I hope they will be responsible even for the smallest things around them, and do the things they can do themselves without putting the burden on others: their friends, colleagues, spouses, etc. InsyaAllaah. Ameen.

Gerbang Syurga

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Doakan gerbang syurga kami dikurniakan kesihatan yang baik ya. Minggu ini tokmak, tokpak, dan opah semua tak berapa sihat. Demam, lelah, dan gout. Semua dah pergi jumpa doktor dan sedang berehat.

Kami dah jumpa opah semalam. InsyaAllaah minggu ni nak pi jenguk tokmak dan tokpak pula.

Rahmati dan ampuni mereka ya Allaah, kasihi mereka sebagai mana mereka telah mengasihi kami semasa kami kecil lagi. Allaahumma Ameen.

Teeth

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One effective way to have fun(I think) is to listen to our children's innocent conversations. They are often interesting and funny, and very enlightening too, mashaAllaah.

My sweet girls had a conversation over dinner tonight.

Hajar: Manusia kan ada 2 jenis gigi(Human has 2 types of teeth)

Maryam: Haah, satu gigi kuning. Satu lagi gigi putih.(Yup, one is the yellow teeth. Another one is the white teeth).

Hajar: Taklah. Kalau budak-budak, gigi susu. Orang dewasa, gigi kekal. Orang tua, gigi palsu!
(Nope. It's baby teeth for children, permanent teeth for adults, and dentures for old folks!)


LOL.

Bismillaah

I would like to start with our sweet Sarah. Tomorrow she will turn 1, insyaAllaah. My home birth was 1 year ago, and it still feels very sweet and will be remembered that way,always. One full year filled with blessings, cheeky smiles, bright days, beautiful nights, soothing giggles, energetic crawls and climbs, and meaningful cries. What not to love and be grateful with a huge blessing named Sarah? AlHamdulillaah.

At 1(insyaAllaah), Sarah is now able to climb the stairs super fast when no one was aware. She would smiled and babbled when caught in action. She has gotten four teeth that adorn her smiles beautifully. Everyday, her hair would be styled in the 'kelapa sawit' style. She doesnt refuse her baby meals anymore,and Sarah loves banana very much. She knows how to angkat takbir and rukuk and sujud whenever a sejadah was put on the floor, and Allahuakbar was proclaimed. She will follow along whenever the dua of traveling( or other verses from the quran) was recited in the car(in her own baby language,though). A baby's progress was simply amazing, mashaAllaah. Alhamdulillaah ya Allaah for your blessing.

Now, we move to Maryam.Maryam is a girl who has got her own unique personality. She loves hugs and affection, and would be very angry at things she doesnt like. She can be very loud at times, and be very quite and timid at other times. She would sit and do things that she likes whole heartedly, but would barely give attention if she was not interested. She likes drinking lots of water, but slowly reducing her foods intake. She still loves sweet, but cannot finish a lollipop by herself anymore. She loves upin ipin like Adam, and rarely paying attention to others cartoons or shows. The simplest way to calm her down was to just give her a warm hug.

Adam, our only boy. He is very talkative and energetic. He is very good at negotiation and mencuri hati. Drinks lots of milk,but requires constant reminders to drink more plain water. We thought that he needs more water since he easily caught runny nose and cough. He loves the trips to masjid and also a teh buih(teh tarik) session at the restaurant with abah afterwards. Knows how to read and write, but always wanted to speed read and write causing him to end up with lots of corrections to make. He was very hardworking when it comes to homeworks. Sometimes, loves to help with house chores and quite good at mengemas.

Hajar, our kakak. She is doing very good at Darjah 1. She is embarassed that her tooth fell out and now she is rongak. Another tooth is very wobbly now, and she refuses to go to the dentist. Not that she is afraid of the dentist, but she doesnt want to looose another tooth and making her rongak even more apparent. She would prepare her school bag and things she needed the night before by herself. She washed her shoes by herself too. Every morning she would go to kelas KAFA,the same place with adik Sarah, just at a different room and level in the house.so, sometimes, she would look after adik if adik was cranky. Kakak is a big help at home. She helps with adik-adik. Sometimes she can be very garang, but can be very sensitive  too.

Bismillaah

Hari ini para syurgawan cilik berusaha untuk mendapatkan g-anjaran.awal pagi tadi Adam dan hajar Bantu ibu sidai kain manakala Maryam jaga(ajak bermain) adik Sarah.


lepas semua dah selesai dan bekerjasama dengan jayanya,masing-masing ligat memikirkan nak minta hadiah apa.

Siap bincang lagi sesama sendiri. Akhirnya, syurgawan sepakat nak hadiah hari guru,nak hadiahkan kat cikgu masa sambutan hari guru nanti,insyaAllah.

Very thoughtful alhamdulillah.

Survived

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Alhamdulillaah,we have survived the week without abah....uhuhu...

post PRU 13

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we all have made it from Bangi-Penang-Bangi(add penang-kluang-penang for abah) walHamdulillaah. The excitement, the laughter, tears, joy, and disappointment were all there these past few days. We've planned, and Allaah is the best Planner of all. I am asking for every good in every situation, ameen.

It's time to move on, work harder and better insyaAllaah.

oh btw, syurgawan are back to school. alHamdulillaah that the sakit mata virus has gone(but, abah is still fighting it). We've decided that Sarah needed a new environment, which is hopefully better than her last nursery in terms of the cleanliness and learning and growing, ameen.

motivation

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what motivates your day?

what has motivated us to continue living, fighting, smiling, giving?

for me, it is my one,supreme God, Allaah.

Him Alone is worth every seconds of my life, every single breath I take

then come my parents, my husband, my children, my people, my nation, my world.

I love you all, appreciate this short break - free time - before it is gone and filled with to-do's.