Funny Side Of A Sprained Ankle

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Last week my mother in law sprain her ankle. Not really her ankle, it's the front part of her foot, like the picture, see? What do you call that? Anyway, MIL talks to my hubby to take her to clinic to have her foot X-rayed, check how her bones are, etc. Upon hearing all these talks about bones, being the curious 3 year old Sha is, she becomes obsessed with bones.

Sha's questions vary on topics surrounding bones and pain. 'Do you have bones?' Do I have bones to?' 'Does mummy has bones?' 'Why doesn't the other foot hurt, does it have bones too?' 'Look, your foot doesn't bleed, it must not hurt anymore!' The question gets more complicated as the time goes. Poor MIL. Last time when I stepped on a tiny shard of glass and bleed myself (just a little bit, mind you), she checks my foot everyday. She still talks about it after two weeks. My MIL probably will have worse in her store, her foot is bandaged.

Yesterday, I told her to please mind grandma's foot, don't step on it, her foot still hurts. Want to guess what her answer is? 'The other feet doesn't hurt, right? I can step on it, right?' (while stepping on the other foot.)

What will I do without you, my little girl?

Sweetest love and babies!

If I smell Amortentia now, it will smell of rain and newborn baby. It all comes down to my new baby girl, H. Tomorrow she‘ll be a month. To kiss a baby is like inhaling a sweet perfume from heaven. Ah, how heavenly. I can kiss her all day. In between nursing, burping and diaper changing, I mean. Lol.
It is ironic how many cliche I stumble upon this round of pregnancy and birth. I‘m thankful I keep them by the truckload. You know, just in case.

Now my babies are almost 3-year-old and 7 weeks old. Ok, technically Sha is no longer a baby. But she's so babyish these days, especially since she got her new sister. Baby H sneezes, she sneezes, baby H spits up, she spits up. Since I am trying not to enhance any siblings rivalry, I just go on with it. Whatever baby H got, she gets too. Same pat, same kisses.

Sha loves her sister very much. Of course I do to. It's just so sweet watching them adore each other, Sha is always asking me to put baby on her lap. Then baby H will gaze adoringly at her sister. Sha will put on a show for her sis, jumping up and down and singing. Baby H giggles ever so happily. I pray this love and bond between them will go on. Always.

Bye-bye Mr Flu *hint*

It's one of those days. It's raining cats and dogs outside, and everyone is having the flu. ( I even forgotten to enjoy the rain! )  My MIL was the first to get it, coughing and having slight fever. Then hubby's temperature rise. Then me and Sha. Sha had it for about five minutes and was bouncing and climbing all over the place. While the rest of us moped, telling her not to climb or get everything out of the drawer.. zzzzzzzzz... I couldn't lift an eyelid for the whole of the weekend. Literally. I can't possibly let her demolishes the house, can I? Lol.



That was Friday and today Sha is down with fever again. I'm still best friends with Mr Flu but secretly hoping he'd take the hint and go back home. My little girl sleeps with high temperature, whimpers as I gave her a sponge bath, and jumps like nothing happens when she wakes up!! Then she went back to sleep with fever again. Where did that burst of energy comes from? She is such a wonder! Once, she had a high temperature going to almost 40 degree Celcius but she was still jumping and running! The doctor said, well, if she's this active, she must have cured! Sha is like that, she has this hidden energy reserve somewhere, kept especially for fever purposes! Sleep+fever, awake+no fever!



Anyway, there is always a silver lining, right? Now that she's asleep, I can continue with my sewing projects, yeay!!

Oppsss... she's awake. Better get ready for another jump-a-thon! :)

Happy Birthday!

Last Sunday, my baby turned two. Okay, she is now a toddler. I think I prefer to call her my little girl. Toddler sounds a bit... rebellious. And mischievous. Which is exactly she right. Full of energy and ideas how to turn the house upside down maximize learning from her surrounding. Always laughing and making funny sounds and expressions! She is so much fun. Of course, right now she is learning about gravity (which involve dropping everything from the table to the floor and pouring a jug of milk). Oh well, perhaps I have to restructure he lessons lol!

Anyway, her birthday was uneventful. All of us were tired from travelling (that is another post), so at first we didn't know whether to get a cake from the nearby bakery or not. So, laundry was washed and hung, lunch was eaten (honestly I couldn't remember any cooking done that day, most probably we ordered out! lol), but none of us have the energy to crawl out of the house.

Later that evening, my mom dropped by, saying that she thought we would go to her house and celebrate. Lol she discussed with my mother in law and forgot to tell me. Anyway, my dearest mom brought muffins from Kenny Rogers (yum!) and puddings she made herself (double yum!). Sorry mom! We were totally exhausted. The yummy treats perhaps make us want to celebrate a tiny bit more. But neither me or my husband wanted to go out. So that's that.

Out of the blue, after maghrib prayer, my mother in law announced that she bought a birthday cake! My little girl is lucky, isn't she? She finally got a cake! So we celebrate in simplicity, just the four of us... and Sha get to blow her candles over and over again. (Hubby blow the candle the first time lol).

What do you know! It wasn't so bad, afer all! Simple food, but it was a lively event.

Of course marked by Sha that is running back and forth, too excited to eat! She had about a bite of everything and a sip of water, she even refused her ever favourite ice-cream-mmm!

My little girl was happy (and messy). And  so are we:)

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Surprise Kiss

My little girl kissed me last night. I know, not a big deal, huh? But it is. You see, she has now reach the stage where kisses are a No-no. You can kiss her like, once, and then she'll be wriggling out our your arms. Screaming. For. Her. Life. Or try asking her to kiss you. You'll be lucky if she kiss the air about one centimeter from your cheek, muahs! If she's feeling like it, she'll put HER cheek to your cheek. That is lucky number two. Most of the time she'll ignore you, like you haven't said a word. I think bribery with ice cream might wield me a peck on the cheek too.




Oh, how kisses are a luxury now. Gone are the days when she'll laugh with happiness are you kiss her cheeks with all your heart's desire. One cheek each for mummy and daddy. Those cheeks are made to be kissed! But kisses no more.

So what bring that unexpected puckered lips last night? She was having colic, and sleep was hard to come. Like any other mum, I slathered medicated oil on her tummy, ankle and legs and started massaging. She was wriggly, still trying to run away from being massage. Ah, my baby is growing up. Loves her freedom. But I told her to stay put as I'm trying to put the oil on her. Asked her to pray so that Allah will take her pain away. So she did, and I keep massaging. Around here, it is quite common that when baby is having colic, and the mother massaging the baby will kind of 'get' the wind. So I got bloated Lol. Horrible feeling! But anything so that my baby will get better. Anyway, as I rub and massage and saying nice things to her, at one point I kissed her tummy. Kissed it better? Alhamdulillah, I must admit that must have worked. Then she smiled at me and get up, pucker her lips and smack! A kiss on the lips! And another. And another. (she did stop at three). Awwwww....

So my day way totally made. It was totally awesome to have that kiss. Mindblowing. I cried a little lol. It was just so sweet. After days of kisses draught, I got three. Btw, I haven't tell my hubby yet. He'll definitely be so jealous, he probably will start rubbing medication oil! Lol.

I truly treasure the kisses. As my little girl (no longer a baby!) grows up everyday, there are a lot of things whe'll grow out of, too. Frankly, I thought she will deny access to her cheeks when she is probably 3 or 4 years old! Little did I know. She's growing up so fast.

My heart is still melted. She's not up yet, so I'll get my share of kisses for now. Sleep is probably one of those times when she allows kisses (though she did opened her eyes wide when I kissed her just now! lol). Ah, the joy of motherhood. Even a kiss is treasured.

Love is all around :))

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