bye bye 2008

... see you next year, people! =)

a realization

i just realized that more and more people are getting to know the existence of this blog.
so i hafta be careful of what i post here. lol.
again, i write for f.u.n. ;)

p/s. i am so annoyed with my hair right now, i feel like straightening it and highlighting it red. watcha think?

fourth month milestone

i'm in front of the pc working from home, with Dayana on my lap. tomorrow she'll be four months old (and the last day of 2008!), so here is a list of her progress that are on top of my mind at the moment:

1. drools exessively and blow bubbles with her saliva, in which she ends up wetting her front shirt. sometimes i offer her my knuckles to bite on. i end up being droolified by her. hoho.

2. has this habit of biting her bottom lip. i dunno why.

3. can grasp her rattle or toys for a short time if you put it into her hand. sometimes she shakes them a bit too wildly and she ends up banging it on her head. then she cries. hehe.

4. holds her head more steadier during tummy time, but until now she still doesn't like tummy time. fuhhhh.

5. babbles even more than before and cries when there's nobody around to layan her. sudah pandai complain ok.

6. she recognizes people better now, and even has a preference for certain people. but she gets too overwhelmed whenever there's too many people around and she ends up crying sampai keluar air mata, like that day during a relative's engagement.

7. she wiggles alot whenever i wanna change her diaper. her kicks are getting really strong now too.

8. if i'm nursing her in front of the telly, she'll pause in between to check out what's on the telly. imagine a swimmer doing the freestyle and coming up for air in between? dayana seems to be doing something like that. lol

9. needs someone to be beside her when it's schleepy time. and i need to mummify her. or else her hands will be all over her head and she'll refuse to sleep.

10. seems ticklish! haha

Dee's wedding

congratulations to Dee and her hubby on their wedding!!! Dee is my colleague. she's also a friend of Nedd's. eeriely enough, she reminds me alot of my cousin. lol. Dee has been preparing for months for this day to come; i've never seen anyone go nuts over every single wedding detail... i'd label her a bridezilla if i could. hehe.

it was a very hot day, so i left Dayana at home with Significant Other and went alone... i got lost along the way looking for the right exit on MRR2 so i arrived just as Nedd and Tariq were about to leave. luckily a bunch of my colleagues were still there, so i just crashed their table =P. Zaila (with bf), Nadia (with hubby and baby Zara), and Shakirah (with fiance) were already half way through their food =D. even Am was there, i didn't notice until later because he was busy taking photos.

i absolutely loved her wedding ensemble, you looked really gorgeous that day dear =). Dee was too busy fluttering around from table to table, mingling with the guests and taking photos for their wedding album, so we could only manage to grab a photo with her as we were about to leave.

with the bride and groom

Dianah with Nadia and little Zara

Shakirah, Dianah & Me. OMG i look fatttt!

the best thing was, on the way back to my car, i crossed paths with Putri, who was just arriving with her bf. and summore, sempat take photo with her before i left =P.

with Putri

the first day after christmas

today there is practically nobody in the office. how quaint. if i had known i would've just stayed at home and vpn to office to do my work. i could save petrol, for one thing. the good thing is my colleague says there's gonna be a pest control fogging at my office level so i got a valid reason of going home early. heehee. let's hope the people in EMEA are on holiday too (tis the season to be jolly~)

i initially planned to go window shopping during my lunch hour. i had been going ga ga over cloth diapers websites the past week that i needed an excuse to drag myself away from my lappie, otherwise i'd be ending up clicking the 'Add to Cart' button a one time too many. yesterday my mil told me Zara was having sales, so after stopping by the bank to pay my car installment and deposit a bit of cash, i dropped by to see if there was anything interesting to get. luckily there wasn't anything that caught my eye. i also dropped by MNG since my colleague Susu went nuts there during their earlier during their sales, but i still didn't find anything interesting. hmmm. i think since my colleague resigned and isn't around to influence me and such, i sorta lost interest in clothes shopping for myself. or maybe it's because it's more exciting to shop for Dayana even though she doesn't have a clue. i should drag Significant Other the next time i wanna buy something. we seem to have different tastes when it comes to ladies dresses. haha.

anyway, decided to drop by La Senza since it was opposite MNG to check out whether the item on my wishlist was still there or not. most of the collection was already gone anyway, i guess i waited too long. but they were having an offer of Buy One Free One on selected items. so i ended up buying that. and two other cotton bras =P haiz. i think i'm gonna add more items to sell on my for sale entry...

oh yea. i wanted to check out the Twilight book series at Kinokuniya. and i totally forgot about it =P

you wanna know what's on my mind at the moment? i'm thinking if i should go nuts and get some Blueberry Minkys. despite thinking that i would NOT go nuts over cloth diapers, i ended up spending more than rm300 at Mia Bambina over cloth diapers *faint faint faint*. i bought two Bum Genius 3.0, one fitted from MPB + Bummis cover, and one Drybees pocket diaper. then i bought one GAD, a Cute Tushies fitted and some inserts from ezMotherhood. habisss all my gaji gone to colorful diapers that i'm not using for myself. hahahahahha... anyway, can't wait to try them out (and face the horrendous task of washing them afterwards)!

my weekend

last Saturday morning Significant Other's best friend Hafiz got married. he was present during our nikah last year, and came for both receptions on Significant Other's side, so it was without question that he would be there for his best friend's big day. he got up early (actually i woke up early to wake him up, cheese) and left the house at around 8am. it was also the day my friend Wak and his girlfriend (now wifey) decided to tie the knot. congratulations! heehee. i bet my mil is really happy for you (your best friend, right? lol). hopefully i'll try to make it for the wedding in Melaka. we'll see.

i tried to improve my baby wearing skills with my Littlepods pouch that afernoon. i haven't really had a chance to use the sling outdoors yet. we usually bring the stroller whenever we go out so we just put her in there. she's happy to snooze in the stroller while we go for our shopping rounds. anyway, she was also a bit cranky at the time and since i didn't know what else to do with her i decided to use her as a guinea pig =D. so far she seemed ok in there, although mil was worried she might be kemek or senget if she stayed in the sling too long (Dayana didn't complain, so i guess she didn't feel squashed in there, can i assume so?). if that was the case, they wouldn't be selling them to the mommies in the first place, am i right? at one point she fell asleep in the sling, but not for long.

in my Littlepods pouch

later we went to Italiannies for dinner at OU with mil. we tried this new thing on the menu called 'Bowls of Pasta' where you get to choose 4 out of 10 bowls of - what else - pasta! i can't really recall what we ordered though except for the Chicken Lasanga (which was only so-so), but there was one that i really liked, and it had mushrooms in it. i stuck Dayana in my sling so that i could make use of both of my hands =D. she fussed for a bit, until she decided on being contented with taking in the surroundings (which she loves to do), which made it easier for me to enjoy dinner. i just needed to make sure no food falls on Dayana (it happened once actually during my confinement. i was trying to get to the Barley stuck at the bottom of my glass i sorta overtipped it and bits of barley showered all over Dayana. hahahahahah). Dayana decided to poop at Italiannies just as we were about to finish so i changed her first before we did a quick round of shopping. i ended up getting a bag at Dorothy Perkins, 50% off.

At Italiannies

yesterday we went for Hafiz's reception and it was a hot day so we left Dayana at my fil's house for a while. when we came to pick her up we found Bibik with her outside of the house, Dayana in a gendong. apparently 4 ounces of milk wasn't enough to settle her and she seemed rather contented in the gendong. hahaha. we stopped by Subang Parade after that for a stroll since it was already 5pm and we had thought of going to Significant Other's grandma's house later and didn't want to go home just yet. i finally found the stretchy flare pants that i'd been looking for for ages, in black and with different color material at the waist. i bought two; one in red, the other in turquoise. yay!

we stopped by Nedd's house to pick up Dayana's clothes that my aunt had bought for her from UK. they were busy preparing to go for a wedding so our stay there was brief. Dayana was all smiles when Nedd took her from me, but out of a sudden for no reason she burst into tears when my uncle took a turn to hold her. secretly Significant Other thought she got surprised at his jambang hence the sudden outburst. lol. oh, and Dayana decided to poop there =P. next time, Auntie Nedd, we'll drop by and stay longer, ok?

after that we went to Significant Other's grandma's house as planned, had dinner there, and got back home at around 10.30pm. i really should try to teach Dayana to go to bed earlier. she seems to drop off into a deep sound sleep only after 12am. i tried to put her down at 7pm once, but i only succeeding in accompanying her lying on the bed with eyes wide open for two hours. haha.

oh yeah, before this i always bathe Dayana in her hammock. her baby bath tub has this hammock which you can attach to the tub in case you're afraid your baby is too small and might slip and slide in the tub while you bathe her. now that she's almost 4 months old, i decided to remove the hammock and use just the tub. i brought Mr. Rubber Ducky along for the splash. she seems to like it, splashing her feet in the water, so no complaints there =D

Rub a Dub in the Tub

so that was more or less how my weekend was like. nowadays i'm going back home from work later than usual to accomodate the customer's time zones (but i am definitely not going to go home at 1am).

gwah. next week there'a a gift exchange session in the office and i have no idea what to buy.

cloth diapers

c.l.o.t.h.d.i.a.p.e.r.i.n.g.s.t.o.r.y

some CD images from the web:

Diaper Anatomy - Baby Beehinds

Kissaluvs Fitted Diaper

Itti Bitti D'lish AIO

Pocket Drybees

lately i've seen more Mommies preferring cloth diapers over disposables. i've never used them before. i first realized their existence when i read Farrah's blog (she's a crazy CD Mommy) but i didn't give it much thought because i knew i wasn't the type of person who loves getting down and dirty with soiled diapers (ewww, yucks, smelly, blablabla). but recently even my best friend has started to go nuts about them.

did you know that there's many different styles and designs of cloth diapers? fitted lah, aio lah, pocket lah... kepala pusing. i've been browsing through million of CD sites and so far i've gotten even more confused. haha. but i love how they had many stylish cloth diapers of different sizes and colors. and the designs that they come in, enough to make a CD mommy crazy! (which got me to wondering. why are those fitted diapers colorful if they need to be paired up with a diaper cover in the first place? =P). but they're sooo expensive to begin with, although they're cost saving in the long run.

since i'm new to this cloth diapering thing you'd be better off browsing someone else's blog for more information. i just wanted to publish here some of the CDs which had caught my eye. i have no idea what to start with as a newbie though. although i can't believe i have the potential (and i hope i never do) to go crazy over them. haha.