Emir

Emir’s receiving his year end graduation from the Edudrama class. It’s end of year cum Christmas celebration. The class will be closed and continue after new year. The kids have been enjoying the classes and I have no reason not to continue. As long as they are happy. One thing is Saturday morning will never be a free time for me. However, I am enjoying every moment of the busy"ness" of being a mom to almost school going kids.

I am proud of Emir. He has been progressing very well. His "pelat" ness is almost gone even though I feel his speech has accent of baby talk which I love so much. It makes him very endearing. However he's growing very fast in terms of physique (he's tall) as well as mental capabilities. His cheekiness and boyish naughtiness have been on the increasing trend as well and I'm trying to curb it and have been lecturing him. He's been a good boy 99% of the time. I'm so proud of him. I love you Mir.

At Nabilah's party

End of year has always been busy times of the year. For me, it’s filled with birthday parties, school graduations and holiday plans. Last Saturday was the kids’ cousin, Nabilah’s birthday party at their home. We spent the whole afternoon there. There was a magician show and see the children’s face. They were really fascinated with the show. I think I will hire the magician next time around.

Emir's birthday party

We had Emir’s 4th birthday party last Saturday. It was Emir’s first party. Everything went superbly well after all and the birthday boy was so happy and proud. There were 25 children including his cousins attending. I won't write much as the pictures will tell more stories than I could pen down.

Not so smoothly

I had planned Emir’s Birthday party for tomorrow afternoon. So I made arrangement starting about two and half weeks ago. The invitations went out and since I got very good responses from his school mates and there are limited spaces for the party, my invitees were limited to the school mates and cousins. I had worried about too many children and not enough provisions as almost everyone invited save a couple confirmed their attendance.

So I maximized my order of food and children places. I also added more activities for the children. I bought and prepared the party goodie bags. I thought everything went quite smoothly by beginning of this week and was just getting ready for the party day. My children were excited. Everyday they were asking about the upcoming party.

Until a couple of days ago… when things were supposed to go smoothly something unexpected just have to happen. One of the classes was infected with Hands Foot and Mouth disease. One by one, parents called me cancelling the attendance as their children was infected. I felt sorry for the children, but at the same time I couldn’t help feeling disheartened and disappointed that things didn’t go as smoothly. Why did it have to happen around this time? I felt like crying. So far about 6 of them had called to cancel and it's just days away from the party. I have about twenty more children in total, and I’m waiting nervously for any further bad news.

I really hope no more sick children. I hope everything will go well tomorrow. It’s Emir’s first party! I just want it to be memorable for him.

Outing

Last week Fatini asked whether she could follow her friend Leah to the rabbit farm at Bukit Tinggi. When I talked to the mother, she asked whether I would like to join her together with another of Fatini's friend's mom. So on Saturday afternoon we met at one house. 3 mothers and 6 kids. The children waited excitedly for each other and talking incessantly. It was fun watching them.

We decided to go with two cars, Fatini wanted to ride with her friends, so we exchanged children between us. Another boy and Emir rode with me however Emir was so upset because according to him Fatini was his best friend and he wanted Fatini to be with him. Awww Emir…..Mummy knew you love Fatini so much!

It was hot in the afternoon but as soon as we reached the rabbit farm, it started to rain. Well, the rain didn’t hinder the children, and far from dampening their spirits.

My camera ran out of battery soon after, how forgetful of me to charge the battery. Well it was raining heavily afterwards. We continued the climb to Colmar Tropicale. They managed to play amongst themselves, blowing bubbles and did some sand art.

It was dark when we decided to leave the place.

Meeting of the young at hearts

We had a get together recently after umpteenth year of absence since college days. It was a wonderful, wonderful time. One friend had offered to be a host and therefore we met at her lovely home. Hours went by and nobody stopped talking yet. Next meet, I heard they were talking about me to be the host! They promised to wash the plates and do the clean up afterwards ….