sawang sawang please go away!

bismillaah

sudah mula bersawang laman kami kan...walhal ada banyak juga perkara yang berlaku sekitar beberapa hari yang lepas walHamdulillaah.

Memang laju betul masa berlari, tak terkejar :(

Hari Ahad lepas, hari Ihtfal tadika. alHamdulillaah, syurgawan sangat seronok sebab dapat buat persembahan dan dapat hadiah. Istimewa kan di tadika, semua orang dapat hadiah dan penghargaan yang sama. Mereka tidak dibezakan dengan kedudukan pandai vs kurang pandai, etc. Yang istimewa, mereka yang cemerlang dalam Qur'an dan hafazan diberi penghargaan pada majlis ini. Ya, celik Qur'an dan bukan cerdas baca dan kira semata.

Ada anak-anak yang punya tahap keyakinan tinggi, boleh jadi pengacara majlis mashaAllaah. sangat keletah dan berbakat pada usia 6 tahun. Ada yang lancar dan mahir membaca Qur'an pada usia 5 tahun. Ada yang sudah boleh bersajak dan berdeklamasi dengan penuh emosi. MashaAllaah tabarakAllaah. Indahnya jiwa kanak-kanak yang belum tercalar dengan kejamnya nilaian manusia. Mereka yakin diri, gembira, dan berani.

Anak-anak ibu buat persembahan berkumpulan saja. Hajar adalah seorang yang pemalu dan pendiam di tadika..ehehehe. Maryam pulak, menyelit masuk kumpulan 4 tahun. Adam memang bersungguh-sungguh bernasyid dan berdikir barat. Terhibur ibu abah melihat keletah anak-anak di pentas.

Majlis ihtifal penuh warna warni, buat anak-anak senang hati.
Ibu gembira, abah suka, syukur alHamdulillaah.

Pengajaran daripada majlis ihtifal tersebut:
- perlu usaha lebih gigih untuk jalankan amanah mendidik anak-anak dengan ilmu al-Qur'an
- biar mereka fasih dan lancar membaca al-Qur'an, dan lebih senang dan tepat dalam menghafalnya
- bila sebati dengan Qur'an, terus dizahirkan dengan akhlaq dan amalan
Allahumma yassir wa la tuassir

Gambar-gambar yang dipinjam dari FB Tadika Ummi Alam Sari

(sekarang Tadika Umi Alam Ceria)

Dikir Barat

Dikir Barat dari murid 5 tahun

4 Tahun(Maryam baru 3 tahun ehe)

A, B, C's

Going to the zoo, and look, it is a bunny! LOL

Perarakan masuk para graduan..

how time flies, mashaAllaah. Hajar is going to Darjah 1 next year inshaAllaah

Kasih Tanpa Syarat

Bismillaah

Kasih tanpa syarat

Hadiah Allaah menganugerah kasih dan sayang

Diwarisi ibu ayah untuk diberi kepada anaknya

Moga anak-anak 

terus menebar kasih tanpa syarat 

pada hayat ini dan selepas hayat kami pergi

menanti titipan kasih lewat doa

anak-anak soleh penyejuk penawar

hingga ke syurga

Ameen

Qur'an

bismillaah

Bila terbaca tentang anak-anak kecil yang lidahnya sudah fasih mengalunkan ayat-ayat suci al-Quran, ibu terasa sayu dan bersalah kepada anak-anak ibu. Hajar misalnya, sudah 6 tahun tapi masih lagi berada di buku Iqra' 4 walHamdulillaah. Kadang-kadang, dia menyuarakan keinginan untuk membaca al-Quran sendiri macam beberapa kawan-kawan lain di tadika. Anak-anak ibu sudah menghafal beberapa surah pendek dan hadis bersama guru-guru di tadika. Tapi, mereka berhak untuk lebih dekat dan tahu lebih banyak al-Quran semenjak usia kecil lagi, kan?

banyak yang ibu dan abah kena usahakan untuk diri sendiri dan anak-anak agar tidak jadi Muslim yang biasa-biasa saja. Sudah letih menjadi biasa, jadi orang yang menerima apa adanya saja, dan jadi hamba yang kurang berusaha. Kalau dulu ibu masih lagi bergelut belajar membaca al-Quran walau usia sudah mencecah 13 tahun, ibu tidak mahu anak-anak ibu terlepas peluang yang banyak pada masa usia muda untuk bermesra dan intim dengan al-Quran.

sekarang ibu usahakan untuk dengarkan lebih banyak al-Quran bersama anak-anak dengan membaca Qur'an, mengajak mereka menyemak hafalan surah, mengulang-ulang surah semasa di dalam kereta, dan memberi galakan dan pujian bagi anak-anak yang menyahut kempen ini. Moga Allaah permudahkan usaha untuk jadi hamba Allaah yang menjalani hidup ini dengan lebih makna. Ameen.

semuanya berdikit-dikit dan perlahan-lahan inshaAllaah. Hanya beberapa minit untuk setiap sesi untuk tidak membosankan dan membebankan anak-anak. Setiap sesi, dijadikan se-riang, se-kreatif mungkin dan berbeza dari tadika inshaAllaah.

Doakan kami agar al-Quran terus subur dalam generasi Muslim.

Chef

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Hari Sabtu lepas, Adam jadi 'chef'. Itu yang Hajar dan Maryam panggil Adam. Sangat bangga yer Adam diiktiraf sedemikian rupa, mashaAllaah :)

Apa yang Adam dah buat?

Dia 'siapkan' hidangan roti canai untuk semua orang(roti of course dari kedai yer).Adam carik-carikkan roti canai, bubuh dalam mangkuk(sorang satu), dan letak kuah. Lepas tu, Adam hamparkan alas kat lantai(makan bersila semua yer ala-ala orang kampung). Kemudian, Adam susun semua mangkuk dan cawan atas hamparan. Minta ibu tolong siapkan air dan Adam tuang dalam cawan semua orang. Seronoknya makan macam berpiknik di ruang tamu sendiri alHamdulillaah. Lepas habis makan, Adam tolong kemaskan pulak! MashaAllaah tabarakAllaah.

Inilah training 'Leader in Me' di kalangan syurgawan di rumah ni. Hajar biasanya suka jaga adik Sarah dan ajar adik-adik membaca Iqra' dan buku. Adam suka mengemas dan Maryam suka 'tolong' ibu bila ibu nak lipat kain dan mandikan adik. Bila mereka diberikan kepercayaan melakukan sesuatu, mereka rasa dihargai dan lebih yakin alHamdulillaah.

dulu-dulu

Bismillaah

Boleh teka ker Who is who?

it's Saturday!

Bismillaah


Alhamdulillaah, it was a happy day. Lots of rain too, was pouring down heavily with mercy from Allah, mashaAllaah.

Adam got a new haircut today! He's been asking abah to take him to the barber since last few weeks LOL. Today, abah took him along as abah was getting a haircut too.

cacak hanya sementara

After Zuhr, we went out with the intention of going to a wedding reception. Syurgawan love kenduri kahwin so much! Unfortunately, we changed the plan after the rain started just as we left the house. It was so heavy that the sky looked very pale and driving visibility was very limited. We guessed that the traffic on the highway should be bad too as there were lots of cars on the road today. (later on we discovered that there was a big perhimpunan rakyat at Seremban! uhuhuhuh...sure thousands of people were there, and just imagine how was the traffic like).

We made a U turn and decided that we'd just have lunch somewhere in Bangi. Initially we were heading towards Sate Samuri, but we saw Kedai Makan Upin Ipin. Adam was very excited and happy of course! He's been wanting to try the restaurant ever since he saw one at Gombak(however the restaurant was closed when we went there). uhuhu...we didnt know that Bangi already has one.

Alhamdulillaah, there was a parking lot right beside the restaurant side entrance, so we managed to get in without having to run in the rain. Wohoo...lots of children inside! what to expect kan? it's Upin & Ipin after all. Syurgawan sudah tak sabar-sabar to explore the restaurant (ada merchandise on sale near the cashier yer LOL. Luckily, abah managed to say NO with much diplomacy)

The menu reflects the Upin & Ipin 'kampung' style with menu Opah, kak Ros, Ma'il, etc :) sure ayam goreng was on the menu!(tapi takde 2 seringgit lorr). Ada set nasi dengan ikan kembung, sambal belacan, nasi lemak, mee bihun, laksa, hailam, etc. Rasa pun alHamdulillaah, not bad. A bit pricey on the price, but still reasonable and cheaper than Arab or Chinese Muslim restaurants or Secret Recipe or San Frans or etc. We didnt know lots of good restaurants to go since we are not the type yang suka mencuba ke sana ke mari..walHamdulillaah.

After lunch, we went back home since it was almost Asar and the weather was still gloomy. The rain berenti sekejap before it came back. Later in the evening, it was reported that some parts of Bangi were flooded!

At Shell Jalan Reko(right before the traffic light, towards Kajang & Bandar Baru Bangi), at UKM comuter station, at the T-junction between Jalan Desa and Jalan KWSP towards Taman Uni Jalan Cerdik, and before the entrance to Taman Uni Jalan Pintar.

 

Alhamdulillaah all of us stayed at home last night, and abah just attended a kenduri doa selamat here at our neighborhood and his coaching session was canceled. We were selamat daripada mengharung banjir.

Bismillaah

Tips penjagaan anak ~weeee!

Biasanya rambut para ibu akan gugur dengan banyaknya beberapa bulan selepas bersalin. Jadi, adalah amat penting untuk menjaga kebersihan diri dan persekitaran pada waktu tersebut.

Pastikan tiada rambut yang tersangkut di celah leher, lipatan lengan anak(yang biasanya berisi dan berketul-ketul macam maskot michelin), di lipatan peha, tangan dan bahagian tubuh bayi yang lain. Bayangkanlah kalau ada rambut membelit dan terselit, mesti rasa tak selesa kan. Lagipun, oleh menyakitkan dan membahayakan bayi. Bila bayi dah aktif menghisap jari dan memasukkan benda-benda yang dipegang ke dalam mulut, kenalah selalu perhatikan untuk mengelak rambut masuk ke dalam mulut bayi.

Hujan

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Semalam hujan lebat bila menjelang malam, AlHamdulillaah muthirna min rahmatillaah. Para syurgawan leka bermain, bergurau, bergaduh, dan berdiplomasi sesama mereka. Kakak Hajar lebih banyak jadi pemerhati kepada krisis-krisis manja antara Maryam dan Adam sekarang. Kakak Hajar lebih banyak tolong ibu tengokkan Sarah bila ibu ke dapur, solat, dan etc. AlHamdulillaah, para syurgawan banyak membantu tugasan ibu di rumah secara tidak langsung. Rumah pun sentiasa meriah dengan suara tawa dan tangis mereka. Usia kecil begini, memang ragam mereka pelbagai. Dari yang mencuit hati sampailah yang menggoncang kesabaran walHamdulillaah.

Sekarang syurgawan sibuk update ibu pasal persiapan hari ihtifal mereka. Ada lagu dikir barat baru yang syurgawan suka nyanyi. Agaknya itu untuk persembahan hari ihtifal. Maryam pulak kata yang dia akan pakai baju ladybird(tapi kakak Hajar kata,"lebah la, Maryam. Bukan ladybird!" LOL). Maryam menyumbang jugak dalam persembahan kot walaupun bukan pelajar tadika secara rasmi.

Abah outstation ke Jelebu. Adam tertanya-tanya mengapa abah tak balik memandangkan syurgawan masih lena tidur semasa abah bertolak awal pagi tadi. Adam nak roti, tapi roti dah habis huhuhu.Merajuk dia tak nak habiskan makan malam. Tak sedap katanya. erk~ Takper, Maryam makan penuh selera dan kakak pulak kata tak suka telur dan meatballs. Banyak ragam berbeza bagi setiap syurgawan ni, mashaAllaah.

Cik puan Sarah pula semakin bijak setiap hari alHAmdulillaah. Sekarang dah tahu kalau kita tinggalkan dia sorang-sorang. Menjeritlah sekuat hati sampai kita datang balik..uhuhuhu. Sarah menangis tak lama dan tak berpanjangan. Kalau ibu datang pujuk, terus senyum. Bila berganjak sikit, terus sedih. Sarah pun semakin laju jer berguling-guling ke sana ke mari. Sekejap jer dah sampai hujung sana hujung sini. Dah sampai corner tu, biasanya dia akan tersekat tak boleh gerak. Takde jugak Sarah menangis protes, cuma kesian tengok dia terkebil-kebil. Kena selalu angkat dan alihkan dia ke tengah semula.

Kau Pergi...

Bismillaah


Harini ibu dan abah mengiringi jenazah ibu mertua Kak Ton ke tanah perkuburan di PJ. Arwah pergi selamanya jam 1230 pagi semalam selepas sistem organ dalaman kalah kepada diabetes dan kesan berangkainya.

Insaf bila melihat ke dalam lubang kubur yang sempit, tanah pusara yang kering, kontang. Tempat kita semua bakal bersemadi-tidak banyak bezanya.

Anak-anak kecil masih tidak mengerti. Tenang dan teruja melihat opah mereka dihantar 'tidur.' Mungkin tidak terfikir bagi mereka bahawa itulah kali terakhir jasad opah ditatap.

Tinggallah kita mengambil peringatan. Nyawa dikandung badan bakal ditarik keluar. Kita, bakal jenazah yang akan datang.

R&R

Ready to go:

Napped, and woke up with spiky hair LOL

Still sleepy zzzz~

Taking orders

at R&R Sg. Perak

Ada kucing dan Maryam takut!

At Kenduri, Rawang

Tumpang buaian baby berendoi

Dah sampai Bangi, singgah ofis abah kejap

Penat dah

Eid Trips

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Pictures report first, writing later eh, inshaAllaah :)

Alhamdulillaah, our eid ul-adha was wonderful. We went back to Penang on Thursday - left around 10am in the morning and reached Penang around 4pm. We stopped for almost 1.5 hours at R&R Sungai Perak because abah met a friend and had a short discussion at the surau there. While waiting, ibu entertained syurgawan: lunch, toilet, solat, etc. alHamdulillaah, the crowd was moderate while we were there. After Solat Zuhr and when we were about to leave, makin banyak orang. Btw, it was ashura day and both ibu and abah were fasting. Syurgawan had nasi and lemang(advance raya LOL). Adam really wanted jagung rebus, but all the stalls were not ready yet:jagung masih lagi direbus. Kesian Adam.

Syurgawan were busy coloring and playing during the trip in the car. It was only after lunch that they went to sleep walHamdulillaah :) All were happy and played together without any major siblings fight. Sarah was also up for most of the duration. Was only asleep for a few hours while still holding to her toys mashaAllaah.

The traffic was heavy, but still moving smoothly alHamdulillaah.

When we reached Penang, Pakcik Darto and family arrived just a few minutes later. Syurgawan seronoklah dapat main dengan cousins Hakimi, Haziq and Fiqah.

Hana and Dina already went back to Yan though.

To Penang

After Sg Perak

We sat on the back! Kakak was on the front seat

Eid Day 1 - to Parit Buntar

First day eid, we went to Parit Buntar. Had a great time there with laksa and ketupat palas. The foods were superb and the company were superb. We went with 4 cars, that's a big crowd mashaAllaah! alHAmdulillaah no traffic jam along the way back and forth.

after Parit Buntar, we made a quick stop at Tesco before headed back home. Hana and Dina were back already. Syurgawan got to play together before they went to sleep.

Eid Mubarak!

Bismillaah

Initially, we planned to balik kampung last night, but ibu was very tired that we postponed it to the next morning walHamdulillaah. Uhuhu balik kampung is a bit complicated for ibu who has to pack and take care of six person's belongings,(and of course to kemas rumah before leaving). Allaahu musta'an.

This time, we'll make a stop at Tanjung Malim to fetch Opah, then to Bidor to send Opah, then to Ipoh for abah's appointment with a friend, then to Penang inshaAllaah. We'll be at Penang until Saturday afternoon, and we'll head back South bound.On the way, will stop and stay overnight at Bidor before going back to Bangi on Sunday inshaALlaah.

so, we would like to wish everyone good luck on fasting and making lots of takbeer, istighfar, du'a, and ibadah on the day of Arafah. May Allaah bless us with abundance of mercy and forgiveness on these blessed, coming days inshaAllaah, ameen.

Allaahu akbar wa lillaah il-hamd!

Cucuk!

Bismillaah


Today was clinic day for Sarah again. It's the 5 month visit.
alHamdulillaah a'la kulli haal, Sarah tengah selesema tapi tak demam. So, she got another dose of immunization today. She was calm during the visit and just merengek sedikit bila disuntik. Takde menangis menjerit alHamdulillaah. She is 7.7kg now.

Afterwards, we went to abah's office and waited for abah to go home. Spent few hours there waiting for abah to finish all of his meetings uhuhuhuh. Sarah sempat poo pooed there LOL.

Perak

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alHamdulillaah, we spent last weekend at Slim River Guest House, Perak.(Maryam called the place 'Perak' like it is not the case anywhere else LOL)

We left home on early Friday morning, headed to abah's office, then to Gombak because abah wanted to get a CD of the training materials he was intellectually digesting, mashaAllaah. After the stops, we went up north slowly. Made a few stops at the Sg. Buloh to reload TnG and bought some foods, and at UPSI to fetch kakak-kakak facilitators.

We arrived at around 3pm. The place was nice alHamdulillaah. The facilities were spacious, clean and comfortable even with only basic amenities. As long as the bed and bathroom were nice, we were all happy. Our chalet was just across the green field and playground. Syurgawan were so happy and enjoyed playing there. They liked the swings. Always asked ibu to buai laju-laju and tinggi lagi tinggi lagi! They also enjoyed watching the students doing their activities there. Initially, Syurgawan were just peeking out from the window with curiosity and burning desire to be out there too! The moment ibu said yes and opened the door, whoosshhh they ran as fast they could to the playground!

Oh ya, abah left for Singapore that night, and only back on Sunday morning. We were by ourselves at the chalet. AlHamdulillaah there was a cafe inside the guest house compound where we bought our meals.

Happy alHamdulillaah

Maryam was so proud given the chance to hold Sarah

After playground day 1

Playground before leaving

 

Syurrgawan spent the rest of their times drawing, coloring, and making origami(ibu folded the papers for them LOL). Adam was influenced with Origami Warriors(betul ke tajuk ni?) cartoon laa. His origami could be transformed into robots etc(imaginary play ya). Sarah was bergolek-golek and enjoying her time there. She's got a new technique, kuak lentang! and went all around kicking and pushing on her back.

We left the chalet around 3pm on Sunday. On the way, we stopped at rumah mak Ina to visit opah, mak ina and the family.

Syurgawan were very hungry that they ate mee sup opah dengan berselera sekali dan tambah beberapa kali!

After Tg Malim, we went back to Bangi. It was raining heavily on the way back. Tired and full, syurgawan except Sarah were fast asleep throughout the journey. Sarah was not sleeping as she was enjoying watching the raindrops against the windshield mashaAllaah.

add ons

bismillaah

yesterday abah left half an hour early for UIA, and he managed to avoid the traffic rush. Yup, just 1/2 hour difference could doubled (or tripled?) the travelling time!

Today was Sarah's 3rd day at taska. alHamdulillaah dia nak minum daripada botol. She's now more active on terguling-guling dan mengundur ke sana ke mari, mashaAllaah. Dan sudah 'aware' bila ibu tinggalkan dia sendirian sambil menangis kuat-kuat tanda protes uhuhu.

Baking

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Harini masak muffin pisang, thanks to Adam's constant nagging walHamdulillaah. Syurgawan pantang tengok ada tepung kek atau peralatan buat kek atau cookies, mesti diorang nak buat secepat mungkin.

Hajar, Adam, dan Maryam bersemangat sediakan bahan-bahan dan tolong gaul-kacau. Hajar melecek pisang, Adam pukul adunan cecair(telur, butter, etc), dan Maryam tuang bahan-bahan kering ke dalam mangkuk. Huru-hara jugak sebab asyik berebut nak buat itu dan ini termasuklah masa tuang adunan ke dalam mangkuk muffin tu dan masukkan dalam oven. Ibu biarkan jer diorang berseronok buat muffin. alHamdulillaah, cepat jugak siap sebab ada 4 orang tenaga kerja. comot-comot semua mashaAllaah.

ingatkan dah masuk oven, dah boleh senyap. rerupanya komplen sebab lambat sangat nak tunggu! LOL. pening kepala ibu nak memujuk.

at last, bila dah masak, semua berebut nak merasa air tangan sendiri. seronok betul diorang.alHamdulillaah                  for the quality time we've had this evening :)

1st day

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today was Sarah's first day at taska. All necessary items were packed the night before, ibu was nervous and 'sayu'. I must admit that the taska is not the best one around, but we dont have many options here. There are only 2 nannies taking care of 3 babies and several toddlers(many of them, I will ask the nanny tomorrow the numbers inshaAllaah)

Sarah refused the bottle.uhuhuh.she was just playing around and chewing the silicone nipple, and nanny has to pressed the milk out for her to drink, slowly. I last breastfed her at around 830am, and she just took about 75ml in the next few hours. Actually, I have introduced her with the bottle at home, but did not give her bottle regularly. At times, she would eventually sucked the milk from the bottle after few minutes playing with it, and there were also times when she just rejected the bottle. AlHamdulillaah she didnt cry a lot.

I picked Sarah up after ambil kakak-kakak and abang at kindy around 230pm. Sarah was napping when we arrived. Sarah was already in fresh cloth and diaper alHamdulillaah. The taska was clean and organized even with the many little syurgawan mashaAllaah.good thing? bad sign? uhuhu...need to monitor the condition in the next few days. During Maryam's time, it was clean too. It was just the selesema, batuk, and demam yang bothered us. Hopefully, all will be fine this time inshaAllaah.


Ibu picked syurgawan from kindy and taska earlier today than usual. Since it was Sarah's first day(and week), ibu has decided to do grad works just half day. If everything is okay this week, inshaAllaah next week will begin the work in full swing mode, Allaahu musta'an.

Today, abah went to UIA and inshaAllah tomorrow as well. He called and told ibu that he was trapped in a bad bad traffic after Sg. Besi toll. Uhuhu...left home at 7am, and still stranded at Sg. Besi at 830am. He was supposed to reach UIA before 900am! walHamdulillaah a'la kulli haal.