Baby Keyaan is here!

Oh yes, as he has been for the past few weeks. :)
He's sleeping soundly now, so I could work from home and blog a bit!
Weighing just 2.28kg, he's so small that I was afraid to lift him up!
Now he's probably 2.8kg. *Hopefully*
He don't fit into most of his clothes, but I just dressed him up anyway.
The granma and great granma is full of joy that any-fucking-thing he do is genius, which for me, is just ordinary stuff babies do. I guess that is what grandparents and great grandparents  do. Or maybe just in my household.
I tired of course, but can't seems to fall asleep.
I'm trying to picture the big picture here, and how Keyaan should be in the next 10 years.
I see kids nowadays that are not thankful, materialistic, with bad manners and no discipline.
So, from now on I've been trying to keep a routine and trying to get him to sleep train.
So far, he could sleep by himself, after a 2 days crying to be held as his grandparents keep on doing.
But once he settled down, he slept by himself.
So, life is good now.
Now, I just can't wait to go back to my own house, and I just missed hubby so bad. T.T
Probably the last post of the year, so happy new year everyone, may we all have a good year ahead. :)

A week of being housewife *with recipe and DIY!*

Hello Hello!

Being a housewife is no easy feat! 

One, I'm constantly bored.

Two, read number one. :p

So what do I do?

I've cooked, I've cleaned, I've tidy up.

I make this for lunch :

Mee with soup and hotdogs: 

And then there's the perfect scrambled egg:

Three eggs, one cup of milk, salt and pepper to taste.(combined all, make sure to beat as much air in it as possible)

Take 2 tsp of butter, melt it on your frying pan.

Once the butter melted, pour the batter in.

Let it stay for half a minute, then start scrambling slowly, until all the batter become solid.

Add additional ingredients as you prefer (key : cheeseeee)

Lift the egg to dishes and eat! 

Yummiesss!

And then I make fries. Freaking delicious!

To make it, you need to cook it not once, not twice, but thrice!!

Cut the potato into strips and soak it in water + salt

Cook it in enough water and salt until the water boil over. 

Strain.

Refrigerated them until they are frozen ( a bit)

Fry them with lower temperature until they turn light golden.

Strained.

Refrigerated again.

Fry them on higher temperature until they turn golden.

Add pepper and salt if you want.

But without them also it take so freaking good.

The inside is fluffy and the outside is crispy.

Oh Oh...yummiesss~

Next, I think I posted before about the closet mom gave for the baby right?

Unfortunately I don't like the angry bird plastered on top of it.

So I decided to do something with it:

The closet: 

The paper that I chose to change the look: 

First, take out all the screws for the knob.

Next, put on the double tape on the offending drawer: 

Take them outtt: 

The put on the paper, top first, then smoother it down.

Next, put back the knob.

(The picture is not rotated. Sorry!* 

And the result: 

Tadaa~

 

It does looks better and grown up a bit, isn't it?

The next thing I tackled is the crib!

My brother gave me money to buy the mattress the other day, so we went and bought it, with white mattress protector and a white linen.

The plastic is still in the picture!

The tiger is a toy we get as we donate to WWF, and the other toy is a free gift when we bought the rocker.

So both of the toy is free!

Next I try to put all the cloth diaper that I bought in one place, and it looks freaking cute!

Only 9 in stash, and most of it are Grovia, 2 is newborn and 6 is the usual one. I got four of them half price!

Woohoo!

Then hubby bought barut for the baby (ten of them!) and their are all washed, primed and waiting for the baby to arrive!

And last but not least, I was watching tv when then baby shoving his ass on my right side of stomach.

Can you see his butt? :P 

Okay for now, I'm gonna right another post on how to past your time *while waiting for the baby to arrive*

A wedding, mini honeymoon and 37 weeks!

Hey y'all!

It's been a long week and I'm happy to announced that I'm full term and could give birth any time!

We went to Syida wedding on the weekend, from 10.00am and arrived at 2am. 

Don't ask. Tired, disoriented and sleep deprived, we bonk out as soon as we hit the pillow.

Once my head cleared, we went to Syida's house as mom will cook the makan damai, and me, rearranging the flowers and so on. 

Here's the flowers beside the bed:

The other bed and the flower bouquet: 

Me and hubby posing~ 

The bride and bridegroom:  

Then at night we went out for dinner and ate maggi ketam.

Freaking delicious with so many stuff inside!

The crab, the prawns, the soup.

Oh my godddd.

Then we went to wakaf che yeh.

Cheap cheap stuff!! 

I totally love it, will go there again next time!

The dress that I bought:

On unrelated note, I'm now 37 weeks!

We're full term!

After the pregnancy scare on 35th weeks, bleeding and the bloody show, it seems that the prayers from family and friends works!

I've just turn 37 and I'm sooo happy that the baby is full term.

Now, he can come out anytime!

I was tidying up his room yesterday, so since hubby bought the barut, I've wash them, with the crib sheet and mattress protector.

The barut: 

The cloth sis gave: 

The mitten, boots, cap, lampin with grovia cloth diaper: 

Next, after check up yesterday, since it's still early, I went and bought these lovely ladies:

*pinky, yellowy and orangy* 

Then last nite dinner we had durian, vegetable soup and cekodok kentang!

Yummy! I even had durian for today breakfast.

Weee~ 

So, since I'm too lazy, I'm just posting pictures.

I can't wait for the baby to arrive, simply cause my body is in pain 24-7!

Please baby, come out come out and playyyy~

Sincerely, mom, dad and everyone else. XD

Early leave!

I'm taking an early leave. I'm straining myself to work, when I'm so tired I can barely think straight, falling asleep while driving, sleeping too early and wake up still feeling groggy.
I've tried to have a small catnap, but since I'm so tune in the projects and all, I can't sleep.
Those what-ifs haunts me each time I shut my eyes that I ended up working at last.
My mind is totally fried, that I think, oh what the hell, take an early leave!
I still took the laptop home and work from home thou. But just part time. :)
Us workaholic freaks won't let a little pain slows us down.
But I guess travelling one hour to work is very tiring to me, and I need a good rest.
But for tomorrow, we'll be going to Kelantan to see my bff wedding!
I can't wait cause I never been there, so I'm excited!
Okay, time to work!

Tanamera postnatal set - checked! & the late night creativity

The set arrived yesterday!

*I need to drive out as the sender could not pass the security check*

I'm loving the packaging!

The design looks so eco friendly!

So when I opened it, I saw this binder and the manual

The manual.

The item that I bought is from :

http://tanamerapostnatal.com/

I received 11 of the items, plus one extra VCO, for rm390.

I heard and read great reviews about this postnatal set that I'm sold. 

So far I'm now using the VCO to aid delivery.

Could only update once I deliver, whether I tear or not!

*Was so freaking busy last night making 7 dulang hantaran for a friend of hubby as today is his engagement.*

The 7 dulang (nigh time + phone camera is the worst)

One of the close up. (makeup set)

I did these for less than RM100!

The flowers, the alas, and the polystyrene is all around RM95. 

He gave me his own dulang and those items, so I've just create this out of 2 hours mark.

We start at 10pm and finished nearly at 12am.

Will update the nicer version later on. :D

* Hubby couldn't believe I could do this. XD *

November is here, again.

A year ago, I'm probably busy tying up lose end, making last minutes call, making last minute DIY, making sure everything is ready for my wedding day. Fast forward one year later, I'm pregnant with our first child, we moved house to a more comfortable and nicer house, we have one car, we survive few tragic accidents and bad news, and move forward as we received blessings and love for everyone else.

Nearly a year!

I find that life could be strange and beautiful at times, and depressing and gloomy at the other time. I'm making a lot of DIYs at home, and I haven't had time to upload or blog much nowadays as I'm more busy than ever. My projects currently including DIY hand bouquet, DIY hantaran for my bff, DIY blanket for the baby, and actually a secret gift for a friend. Hopefully I could finish everything in time. Amin.

The inspiration~

I bought a rocker chair yesterday, so I could rock our baby to sleep, cradling in rocker just like how I remember I used to be rocked in the chair. And I bought the rocker above to entertain the baby when I'm busy doing something else.

I'm now decorating the baby's nursery with a very small budget. The inspiration is the baby rocker, I'm so loving the green and blue combination. For the baby's furniture (the angry bird ones), I'm now trying to put a matching wallpaper (blue and green leaves on black paper) on the door, so it matches with others. I'm also making a mobile from my wedding pom poms and lanterns. And will be making the bed sheet as well as the bed bumper. My gosh I have lotsa DIY to do! I certainly have to find time to take pictures, and upload and blog more! *My November wish*

The lanterns (bought from wedding shop) and the pink hanging basket that I bought from Ikea

I'm loving this color combo!

-from http://www.chiccheapnursery.com-

Craving for Domino - No more!

During Hari Raya my siblings all came back, so we had a lil feast on Saturday night.

My first sis belanja makan makan at Domino!

Yummiesss

I bought the regular classified chicken and a large meatloaf pizza.

*To be honest, I usually eat this by myself. muahahaha. Thankfully the second sis already belanja McD's new set that afternoon.*

This was taken before the food arrived.

Second sis and hubby

Mom, Nazirah, Ahnaf and first sis

Hubby and me *and one lil baby*

And I'm sorry there's no food picture, cause as soon as the food arrived, we gobble everything up.

Muahahhaha.

Are we there yet?

Today when I went to the loo, I saw a big whitish discharge, and makes me thinks that the mucus plug is out, so are we going to the labor room soon?

I have no idea, but when I google-d it out, it's very common for mucus plug to discharge even few weeks before the actual labor. *breathe out*

Okay, just had my pregnancy scare this morning, and I couldn't get through my mom to ask, so hopefully everything will be okay!

And the baby is kicking right now. He's developing his own sensitivity towards others, especially to his dad. 

I couldn't get mad at his dad. If I did, he'll be kicking and turning like mad. 

Gosh this baby. Mom is the one who have to carry you for the past months, and you are going to sided with dad is it?

Grr.

I hope he doesn't come soon.

I want to go to Kelantan to celebrate S's bridal party!

Pls Pls Plssss let me go to Kelantannnn~

And mom taught me the old school way to know how far along are you.

From the navel, start counting from 26, and the next finger will be 28 until you reach the top of your uterus.

Mine now is around 34 weeks.

Another 2 days and I will be 35 weeks! 

5 weeks more until he's here!

Baby gifts!

Taadaa~

Stroller: First sis old stroller

Wardrobe : Mom pressie

Cot : Second sis pressie

Cloth sets and hat, mitten and boots sets : First sis pressie.

Thankful that I have a family which gave me all these items!

I totally don't want to buy many things, more on to minimalist yet the family just showered me with these gifts!

In the cot, there's the fisher price baby to toddler sitter, 2 big bags of newborn diaper, smaller playmat, maternity pads, WWF soft toys (a cute baby tiger) then there's miscellaneous items that we've collected these 8 months and 2 weeks. 

We have another 6 weeks or 40 days to go!

The baby is freaking active, night and day goes by with him/her kicking and playing actively.

At times I wish it would stop but like hubby said, if it stops, then it's bad news for us.

So I'm thankful that I have a very active baby, playing around without caring whether it's morning, night, or mum is sleeping. Zzz.

I'm not sure what my feelings are right now.

I'm more focused on getting my job done rather thinking about the baby.

I even dreamed that I was going to give birth, so I drove to hubby's work place, but upon reaching there, I don't feel like going on labor any more, so I turn the car back and do my job as usual.

I saw some nice home over the weekend, but too bad, the land there is from tanah gambut, which is not good for long term. Ah..

I guess, we probably just save enough and build the house ourselves.

Oh well..

The baby list - updated on 15 Oct 2012-

Tomorrow the baby is going to be 33 weeks or 8m1w! He is very active and playful, developing his own personality I'm pretty sure about that.

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So the things I still want/need to buy:

*The baby list - will keep on adding as time goes by*

For a goodnight sleep:
-- Blanket ( So I have one hooded towel/blankie and I'm making one from minky that I bought the other day)
-- Mattress and paddings(I'm going to ask my brother for this!)
-- Some mobile on top of the cot (making it myself IF I have time)
-- Bedung(Bought 1)
-- Baby cot - Bought the Ikea ones, RM165 and Sis Ija gave it to me~ Wee~

Taken from ikea

For a clean and healthy baby:
-- Towel, preferable on hooded ones. - (bought one!)
-- Set of wash and shampoo (bought!)
-- Diaper bag/pail
-- Bath Tub (bought!)
-- Nail clipper (bought!)
-- Baby wipes (bought!)
-- Wet bags
-- Air filled mattress for changing diaper and so on (bought a large one from Pureen, going from RM21 to RM17)
-- Mittens and boots (bought 7 set!)
-- Hat (bought two)
-- Cloth Diaper. (I bought one Charlie Banana, two grovia newborn, two grovia shell set, 10 lampin)
-- To be on safe side we also bought disposable, like when I'm having my lazy day and the cloth diaper stash is still growing. We opt for fully cloth once we able to do it!

The fashion collection by Charlie Banana

Bum genius prints.

GroVia AI2 shell. Cute, isn't it?

Online shop for Cloth Diaper that I love:
Bummiakids
Tinytapir))


For a healthy tummy
-- Bibs and burp cloth (Still waiting IF I have time to make this)
--Avent's newborn set (bought!)
--Avent's manual pump (bought!)

This is the one I bought :)

For a jetsetter baby
-- Stroller (taken from big sis)
-- Ring sling (A girl can dream....esp when the hubby is against it. :/

For a healthy mummy:
-- Set of post natal -I'm thinking tanamerapostnatal.11 products, some could be used before giving birth, starts at RM360 per set.
-- Maternity pad (bought 5 big packs as going for sale at Mom & baby expo)

Others :
-- So far I've only bought 5 set of baby cloth. Mom is against buying too much baby cloths cause he will outgrew it. So, am trying hard to close my eyes on those prettyyyy baby cloths.

-- Hubby bought a rocker(above) and a very big double sided playmat. I guess he's excited too. :D
-- He bought a small wardrobe for baby stuff, and even have an angry bird design on it.

We started decorating the baby nursery too. However it still doubled up as guess room if there's any guess coming over. We only have 7 weeks left! Gosh time flew. :D I think I only need my post natal care and cloth diapers now. Other than that, we will think about it.