The Original Juice

Mastered two McQueen jigsaw puzzles

Having breakfast of...



Honey stars and Choc milk

 We went to my colleague's wedding (Malay Guy) at Jamiyah Islamic Cte. We met up at Aljunied mrt and got into two cars.

Tufeil readily accept being carried by my colleague when i refused to. HAHA

He had fun throwing this honey star action figure at my other colleague

 It was great. But it would be even greater if there were no language barrier. He can speak English but it's always mixed with some Malay so it's diff for non Malay speakers to understand... Took the train home

Happy 5th Birthday, Syifaa' Zakirah!

 We had a mini bash with my sister's in laws and one other cousin whose birthday is just the next day. The most fun part was when the kids played musical chairs. Even T played. The first time around, when the music stopped and everybody rushed to grab a seat and the adults were cheering loudly, Tufeil was baffled and asked my dad, "Atok, kenapa?" "Grandpa, why?"

OH and btw, my sister baked that birthday cake herself.

Played this at the bazaar

What's that?

We killed a baby lizard And by we, i meant, my dad.

Other observations in this month (2yrs 7 months old)

1. He started to sleep longer almost 8 hours before he asked for my milk
2. of course there were still nights when he woke up in 2 hours, saw me at the computer and pleaded, "Mummyyy... tidooooo" (....Sleep)
3. One method of diversion before sleep: "Kejap neh... Tufeil nak tanya atok..." "HOld on, I wanna ask Grandpa"
4. But when he was ready for sleep, he would arrange a mini pillow on top of a normal pillow fo rmy head just the way I like it. =)
5. I've shown him how to twist open the door knob to open the door. He managed to do it a couple of times but just gave up to do it again afterwards. There's a plus and minus to this. Minus: I would hafta wake up in order to let him out of the bedroom. Plus: He can't let himself out when i'm doing a time-out in a room.
6. When he accompanied me to the hairdresser, Tufeil said, "Wahhh pandai sey mummy potong rambut." "Mummy's so clever get a hair cut"
7. He's also begun saying things like "Tak fair sey" (Not fair)

Till then..

26th Oct 2011

What can I say? Our airport is great! It's huge for the kids to run around. It's got a free playground, indoor playground, a giant slide, ample parking space, you get to watch planes land and take off...

In any case, Tufeil and I came here again to meet with the 11 besties. Only 3 others could make it though. LOL.
I'm kinda in a hurry to finish writing before I go off on holidays... So just enjoy the pictures.



See-Saw at free playground with the slide on the background



Ok the playground itself is kinda small

The floor is just calling them to lie down

Maybe they wanna make snow angel... only its made of dust instead

What did I say about the space?

GIANT SLIDE!!!

Quiet spot to rest / pray complete with our picnic mats! LOL

A stop at McD is almost a MUST

We've got to meet again, girls.

Sunday 9th Oct 2011

I cldnt stop gushing to anyone who wld listen what a great Sunday I had even tho I had to work. Everything fell into place so beautifully, Alhamdulillah.

Ok story goes tt late fri evening, I just realised tt the reports for our visiting big bosses were not sent to our colleague for printing. Altho my own boss said nevermind, we cld rush it out Monday morning, I was not confident we cld finish on time. So I decided to play it safe and do it over the weekend.

Not wanting to trouble my parents after they watched Tufeil for extended hours for 3 nights consecutively earlier in the week, I decided to bring Tufeil along. I was a bit nervous but prayed for the best.

Syifaa' who stayed w us for the weekend heard we were going out and wanted to follow too. I had to decline as i wasnt sure I cld handle two kids on my own. But then I remembered how the two of them could now play together very independently and happily barring any arguments. So I ventured to bring Syifaa' along..

So me and two kids, one in stroller, another one's hand holding mine pushing the stroller, took the train. It was Tufeil's naptime. He feel asleep on my shoulder and i talked to Syifaa' for a bit before both of us got sleepy too. She didnt quite sleep tho.

Luckily I remembered to drop by at Cheers at the train station to buy some form of lunch for the kids before walking to the office...

Sat them down on two vacant desks with paper and highlighters...

Syifaa' drew the blueberry she was drinking and wrote "I Love Bluberry"

Tufeil just brushed thru with her left hand too cos he was eating.

Can't put them too near though.

Imagination at play...

They were playing house under the desk

Shhh Baby's sleeping

They laid around on the floor, explored the meeting rooms and looked out the window to watch some ships passing by... They really really really left me alone to do my work. They were totally oblivious of the heat because the air-con was not turned on.

Then there was this time when I went around one corner looking for them because they were suspiciously quiet. Found them crouching low on the floor behind a wall waiting to scare me but i scared them first. IT WAS SOOO FREAKING FUN!!!! That they could just run around and play without me having to worry about cars driving past or breaking glasses or hitting sharp corners.

We were there for almost 4 hours and not a word of complaint from the kids. There were two trips to the toilet when one or the other pooped. And then the parents came to pick us up and the rest is history...

OK this is gonna be an ancient post - 2 months old tmrw. But I've already drafted it from way back so it'd be a waste not to post. This is also the post that got me this writer's block and since I have a bit of free time right now, i thought I'd better be finished with writing this already.

Sunday 2nd Oct 2011 (2yrs 6months)

Parents said there was aviation exhibition at the airport so thought we'd check it out...

Love the space they can run around

His outfit for the day w new bottle - a first with strap. After that day, he refused to sling it over his should so i stopped using this bottle

"Mummy, Triangle, Mummy" It's a pyramid, darling

Since T kept close to his Atok, and Syifaa' with the nenek, I was quite free to snap photos

Ben 10 going to the shooting range?

Nahhh just watching some video clips and there were not even voice-overs, just music as background.

At the same time lunch snacking on a hot dog or two

Mum is always fascinated with flowers.

In front of the "exhibition" but it was really just a small few walls of information

I have this exact same post from 2 years ago! when he's just started crawling

Now can even navigate the steering wheels

And now he demands to go to the arcade altho he's scared of some of them like the totally harmless Mario kart

We were gonna do our prayers. In the meantime, let's sit on Atok's back

And lie down...

With legs up

OK kids, time to go home

We are crazy.

Saturday 8th oct 11.

Rinaz wrote about making gnocchi (some sort of pasta). It looked easy and the ingredients r very basic.

http://rinaz.net/2011/08/gnocchi/

Since i had no plans tt day, i decided to make it w Tufeil..

Boiled the potatoes w their skin on while Tufeil took a bath.. In the meantime i was making Jackie chicken too. Took the potatoes out, dressed Tufeil and then we peeled the not-so-hot-anymore potatoes. I gave him one to mash.

And he sampled the semi raw potatoes.



I added the egg, salt, pepper and flour n started to knead w my bare hands when Tufeil followed suit!


Except he put them into his mouth!


Chunks and chunks of them!!



I was very slow at making them into balls. .


Actually i wanted to shape them like worms so a bit exciting to eat.. Thankfully i gave up after 1/4 of the dough and just started boiling them bcos only then i realised the dough sticked back together and i had to reshape them all over again!!


In the meantime, the boy entertained himself....



Playing drum.. I just had to snap this for him to rmbr how he was able to squeeze into such a tiny corner!

You are supposed to eat the gnocchi w italian gravy like pesto or tomato base... When they were ready, I had a taste. Hmmm I dont see how Tufeil cld like this. So, sad to say, I binned them.

At least i ticked off one item off my List of Things to Cook...

I was trawling the net for some simple Eid cookies when i stumbled upon this site:

My Fellow Al-Maarifians! Remember Cik Lah used to sell these back in... 1999?

It's almost impossible to find this now in Singapore and I was all for making it!!! But because we already had too much cookies, i had to postpone it. And Tufeil's Children's Day celebration just beckoned me to serve this.

I like this trolley! Can pull him in it!

After awhile he got tired and wanted to help push it instead.

The forgot tt the recipe actly called for WHITE marshmallows! So the effect became kinda brown...

After all melted, pour in 6 cups (250gm x 6) of Rice Krispies and fold until all is mixed well.

I hafta warn you tho tt it's kinda difficult with this stickiness. Buttered utencils are recommended. Oh luckily, I grabbed a second box of the cereal otherwise it won't be enough!

You're supposed to line the baking pan in which you're gonna pour this into with butter  / oil or wax paper.


I just use foil.

Then wait for it to set (no longer sticky) before you cut them into squares.

The other suggestion by the author was to put in mini cups.