Feyruz Getting Vaccine Shot

Kesian tengok..

Eid 2010 plus Irfan's Birthday Bash

Mother and son on eid

This eid was rather quick yet a  lot of things happened at once. Some highlights of the month of Syawal:
We celebrated our eid at a new place, Wichita KS with close family and friends. Couldn't ask for a better celebration.
My family in Malaysia went to India to celebrate Eid with our beloved Munya huhu...
Irfan's birthday was on the 3rd Eid so Zuhri and  I decided to throw him a party and eid open house sekali. Senang, same food same crowd= save budget heheh.

Ok here's the panjang lebar version:
On the first raya, pegi solat raya at Wichita masjid, my first raya at a 'real' masjid since 2004. I didn't cook anything, so we ate Krispee Kream donuts which were equal to eating tart nenas la kot haha! Malam was open house at a student's place. The food was amazing, and variety of them..One of the best open house I have to say.

Second day, did a very looong shopping for Irfan's gift, birthday stuff and all the bahan for open house. Gem showed up about 6 PM and there were no food on the stove! Sorry Gem..Malam tu masak la few things: sambal goreng, cupcakes etc.

The next day we were up as early as 6:30, start masak roti jala, curry and nasi dagang. Perghhh..boleh tahan penat. The guests came about 1 PM semua makan nasi dagang je huhu since tu je yg ade, the rest of the food other folks yg bawak. By the time the rest of the crew datang nasi dagang pun habis.. aisey. Later was Irfan's birday bash. We lighted the candle and everybody sang to him. Wahhh punya la suka itu budak kecik sampai tak berhenti menyanyi, I think the guests have to sing 3-4 times of the bday song. Tak pernah nampak dia se happy tu.. you can look at the video at Zuhri's fb. I'm so glad I planned for the birthday.. one of the most amazing moments..
Irfan is two and the journey that we had with him so far has been nothing but amazing.. it's a truely blessed having him around: he's my lil helper, my sunshine in a gloomy day, my admirer who's always amazed by my beauty and silliness haha! At two, I think Irfan is a bit taller, mature and smarter than any othe kids at his age haha ni mak perasan berkata kata
He knows a lot of words, hundreds of them. Every time when I introduce something new to him he'll get excited. Anddd... he'll say 'hi' and 'bye bye' to that new object. For example..
Mama: "Irfan, look at the grass...it's grass"
Irfan: "Grass..grass...grass... hi grass...hi grass.."
Walking away....
Irfan: "Bye bye grass...bye bye grass"

Here are some pics from the mini open house and birthday bash

The food that Zuhri and I made

Cupcakes for little Irfan

The rest of the food

The host

The guests yg berapa kerat haha.. dah ni je melayu nak buat camne

Our special guest all the way from KC. Feyuz's 1st raya..

The birthday cake

Blowing the candle

I couldn't help it when Irfan kept singing the Birthday song

Mari potong kek. Wah busy nye Irfan melayan guest

Si Kecik wanted the Buzz so bad. A gift from mama and dada

Family picture

One happy family Alhamdulillah..

Wichita folks- minus the undergrad students

Irfan loving his new toys. Thank U Thank U..

The pressie - there are more cars and books that are not in the pic.

Feyruz at Two Months Old

He is almost 10 lbs now!

Feyruz has developed some skin problem on his face. He gets yellow scales on his scalp and rashes around the cheeks and temples. I clean him every day, but his condition gets worse. He tries to scratch his face more often and seems very uncomfortable.

After three weeks trying different shampoo and method, our baby doc finally prescribes Feyruz with a mild topical steriod cream that will help reducing the inflamation. We also change his shampoo, body wash, body lotion and laundry detergent to see if his condition gets better.

He looks happy this morning when Amin cleaned him up.

His smooth scalp (finally!). We are waiting for his face to clear up and the dried skin to fell off. Hopefully everything will get better soon :)

T-storm: The Aftermath

Our neighborhood was directly hit by severe thunderstorm last Saturday night. It was the scariest moment in my life as the house was shaken and the lights went off. I immediately took Feyruz who was asleep at that time to the basement, just in case if anything happened. After a while, water came into our basement, I guess from the cracks around the wall. Amin frantically moved most of our stuff around to avoid any damages. Then a lot more water came thru a small window in our basement near the washer & dryer. Fortunately we had a drainage in the basement, so the water that got in, drained thru that.

The thunderstorm lasted for an hour. Afterward, we looked out and saw a bunch of pebble size hail, debris & leaves around the house. It was so crazy! We heard the neighbors outside, and we saw the nearby tree felt off on their car. Alhamdulillah, we were lucky that there was no tree near our house.

The next morning, this was what we saw...

Amin sprayed water around the house and my Subie to clean up.

My Subie got damaged pretty bad from the hail. Really bad actually, looked like the car got a lot of pimples :S

The next day, Amin sent my car to the workshop. The worker estimated $3k+ for the repair, but we would only need to pay $725, and the rest would be taken care by the insurance.

As of right now, my Subie is still in the workshop. Probably will get it back on Monday. Can't wait to see my car again ..

Feyruz New Look

Amin shaved Feyruz' head last Tuesday to get rid of the dried scalp and hopefully help with the rashes. Got it done in 1 1/2 hours.

Right before shaving Feyruz, one last pose.

Amin in action.

Alhamdulillah.. no cuts!

New house

Alhamdulillah, we've moved to our new home.. for the time being, until god knows when. This Ramadhan has been so challenging for us, both physically and mentally. It's really hard to keep up when things change rapidly. Every now and then I wish that we could settle down and relax for a bit. But then we're going to miss the excitement and adventure- Bliss.

Despite that we are in our new place, the move didn't go too well..
U- Haul wasn't cooperating made us went everywhere like a mad man to find trucks and equipments to rent. 
The friends that were supposed to help had to work on the day we moved.
The temperature was 100F!
Z the superman had to load all of our furnitures and boxes by himself, and he was fasting!
I had to clean up the house, prepare food for buka and take care of Irfan.
The greedy-tua- nyanyuk tunggu masa nak mati landlord charged us $$$$ for the deposit. (landlord rumah lama)
Hired movers to help at the new house but buat keje separuh jalan. 
I swore and cursed like crazy in Ramadhan... sigh..

Thank God..
We have Z the superman to do all the labor work during the move(We love you DaDa!)
The new house is soooo pretty with NO spiders at least tak nampak lagi la alhamdullillah.  
Irfan wasn't fussy and was so excited to clean and help mama out.
We had some frozen foods that I cooked to keep the tummies happy! especially for sahur, dah agak susah pindah2 ni so masak banyak2 and freeze kan. Bila nak makan defrost, tak payah masak time nak pindah. Really helped me out.

I didn't really take any pictures.. malas plus it was so hectic. ni barang still sepah satu rumah and raya is within a week! This raya: no kuih raya, no baju raya, no gambar raya, planning to cook for Raya Insyaallah. But we have rumah Raya haha! Jadila kan.

The guest room yg masih bersepah. Sempat ke nak kemas before Gem datang?! Mintak tolong Feyruz la kemas kan hihi

The dining/ living room. Kecik ya amat.... Irfan memang terseksa la nak berlari

The messy- messy play area/ living room. Nak kemas pun malas

The flower Z gave - to say he's sorry

My raya project- bukan jahit baju raya ye kawan2, alter kecikkan baju raya je. hihi tu pun rasa susah sgt. But now I'm an expert. =)

The last 10 days of Ramadhan and I'm having my period.. sigh. sedihnye..niat nak terawikh every night.

Feyruz at One Month Old

He sleeps 16-18 hours a day. He wakes up mostly for feeding and diaper changing.


When he's awake, I put him on the tummy turtle mat where he's suppose to do some tummy time (meaning spending some time on his tummy).

But sometimes he just likes to look around and stretch his muscles.

He recently got some baby acnes mostly on his cheeks and chin. Found out that it is a common condition for a newborn. Hopefully it will clear up soon.

Feyruz spending time on the rocker auntie KB gave.