When he needs to be a morning person

Salam..

This morning, as reminded by his teacher, all the afternoon session's students need to come in the morning session as they will have a full-rehearsal for LC Sports Day which will be held tomorrow morning at 8. So, my Fahri is one of the afternoon session's students. As a not-so-morning person (just like the father hihihi) everyone has a doubt when Fahri needs to get up so early, especially my MIL. But, knowing my Fahri and maybe the mother instict itself has given me so much confidence that my boy would not have so much problem to join in the morning session.

Today is the second day he needed to wake up early after the first rehearsal last week. So, I applied the same trick. Just like the first rehearsal day, last night, I switched off the TV (the main reason he sleeps very late at night) and pretended like the TV was not working and something was wrong with it. Well, he could so relate to this because few weeks back, we had problem with the ASTRO decoder which caused an ASTRO technician came to repair the decoder for numbers of time. So last night, while he was watching his cartoon, I switched the TV off (so sorry baby). Then, he looked at me and said "mama?? TV tu"..

Pretending looking at my phone, then I said "Oh nooo... TV rosak lagi ke?". Then, I was acting like a female technician, checking the TV and the plug, then I looked at him, 'frustratedly'. Then he said "hujan ni mama..". He blamed the rain. He was trying to say the TV might not function due to rain. Then I said "maybe lah sayang sebab hujan kot.. It's ok.. kita call uncle keh (konon2 the ASTRO technician)". "Ok... call uncle"..he said. Arggghh sory sayang, tipu sunat..I did this to put him bed earlier.

Then, just like last time, I called my hubby and asked him to act like 'ASTRO uncle'. So, hubby talked to Fahri with his fake Chinese Malay accent ;) 'Uncle' siap cakap to Fahri "you tido dulu la ma.. nti besok uncle datang repair itu TV ok" hihihi.. Then, my MIL, FIL, SIL and Naeem came home from my MIL's house as she had mengaji that evening. So, I told Fahri to go upstairs and get in the room to sleep. Naeem followed us so .. hmm you know when they 'miss' each other. They were pillow-fighting until 11 pm! Ok.. I just let them be.. I know they missed to fight (it's how they express their brotherhood love ok! ;) ) Then, 11 o'clock.. I stopped the fight (after few attempts) and told Fahri I will read him a tick-tock book (his fav book) if he promised me to stop the pillow-fight. He agreed. Again, when I was reading the book with Fahri, as usual, Naeem felt left-out and would do anything to get my attention such as taking the book away! hahaha.. So, I gave up, asked hubby (who was very tired and sleepy) to look after Naeem while I put Fahri to bed. So, Fahri slept at 11.20 pm last night. Quite an achievement. Like seriously. He wanted to sleep by himself. I guess maybe he felt bored because the TV 'was not working' and tired after the 'pillow-fight'. I was happy I didn't have to scold him just to sleep a lil bit earlier than usual. I also kept reminding him before he went to sleep that he needs to wake up early tomorrow morning as he is required to join the morning session. He seemed to understand that.

Thus, Alhamdulillah, everything went well this morning ( I also prayed to Allah swt to ease my plan). At 7 am, I woke Fahri up, took him to shower with his eyes closed. All he said was "Mama.. nak tido.." I was just said OK OK and OK. Then, I put on his shirt and pants and drove him to school. I cheered him up inside the car by singing and making faces like crazy mama. He was laughing and looked all fresh. Alhamdulillah. I think he is ready for morning session next year. InsyaAllah.

So, let's see for tomorrow. All of us need to be at the field at 8 am! We really need to sleep early tonight. Wish us luck.

P/S: I am so proud of u Abg Fahri :)

Skypark, One City USJ

Assalamualaikum..

After a wedding, we went to One City in USJ15 last Sunday. I need to mention the wedding as that's the reason I wore a baju kurung going to a shopping mall ;) My husband said there is a nice recreation spot on the rooftop of One City building. Well, Alhamdulillah I am not afraid of height.. but my husband has a slight fear of it. So it is adventurous for him, but not for me. But, I love the Skypark (rooftop) because the scenery is just lovely. Naeem inherited his papa's fear while Fahri is just like me.. we are ok with heights.

 Taking pictures are always our favs..hihi

See.. Naeem was a lil scared.. U have mama baby! You can see the ground floor view from here.

 Are u scared naeem?

 The view from the top

a new activity for them

 We still need to watch our kids though

 There are many shops which still not opened

I hope they will get used to taking pictures ;)

 Then we went to Oldtown Coffee in ground floor. The boys were behaved so we made them sit together.

 So, mama n papa can date n selfie ;p

 Naeem was trying to sip in my chocolate ice blended.. He is such a heart-throb ;)

Thank u husband for bringing us here !

Fitness: Zumba and Badminton

I am not really into adventurous activities. Like, you can never ask me to do bungee-jumping. Never. I am a chicken when it comes to this kind of activity. But I love active lifestyle. And Alhamdulillah nowadays, I manage to slot in some times for several fitness activities. I join Zumba finess every Wednesday. It's been a  month now. I feel so much energetic now and my body feels so much lighter now.. Alhamdulillah. I am not aiming for skinny body but for healthy and fit body.

 These are my Zumba freak bffs. Fya and Tika

 Also Bayne who has joint us.

I really love Zumba. Actually I love dancing. I still remember before I got married and especially when I was in secondary school, I love playing on my favorite dance tracks and move like anything that I wanted. I loved seeing music videos from Britney Spears, Back Street Boys and my fav dance-song is 'Lady' by Modjo. Till now, I will play that number in my car when I want to feel more rejuvenated. Maybe that's why I was never gained more than 50 kg when I was a lil bit younger. So, I guess Zumba is just what I need to do. I hope I can go everyday, but heyyy.. mother needs to do what she needs to do most, read: my lovely boys!

Then, I am also thankful to be surrounded by fitness freaks just like my friends. So, we planned for a badminton activity last Thursday's night! Can you believe it? A weekday-night. Anything for fitness and friends.. I am not really good in badminton but I surely know how to smash ;p

It went well.. We sweated ourselves and the kids were having fun. Thank you to Mirul, Lin's husband- he is one of the gym instructors in Glenmarie Holiday Inn Golf Club. So, we had a very nice place to play badminton.

 The kids inside the sports center office.

 the husbands began the match

 my bff-sha

 naeem and adele

 sorry ryn, I was not a good team mate.. I wasted so many hits.. hihi

the husbands.. thank u for being supportive to make sure the wives are getting fit!

#confessionsofamom

I want to make confessions as well.. It looks interesting how so many mommies out there revealed their little dirty secrets ;p I wanna blog about this so that I can refer and recall in future on what kind of mama I have been.. And lets count in Spanish ;)

UNO: Action packs

Since I have two boys (3 and 5), mostly I HAVE TO watch all the action cartoons / superhero series like Ultraman, Boboboy,Tom and Jerry, Gumball, Hagemaru, Robocar Poli (some of my boys' fav tv programs). So the bad effect is they got influenced by the acts and trying to be superheroes as well. They fight and 'acting' among themselves AND there were times when I HAVE TO be part of the 'fighting scene'. So I must always be prepared to be given a flying kick (not a flying kiss unfortunately) by them. And it is really painful at times. So my confession is: I did sometimes... defended myself by pushing off my hands and sometimes it accidentally hurt my kids... I mean.. I really need to defend myself!

DOS: Musical Theatre

My boys also enjoy singing and dancing. Even for the theme song of Ultraman. When I was too bored watching their fav tv series... I will just join them singing and dancing, like nobody else's business. Especially when we are watching High-Five. I love to tease them.. so I will full-heartedly dancing and singing.. and watching them dropping a jaw looking at their crazy mama who is singing and dancing extravagantly ...is my satisfaction..hihi

TRES: pinch

I really love their butts and armpits. I love to bite and pinch these two parts of their body. And it really annoyed them sometimes.

CUATRO: me-time

To love them more is trying to be apart from them. When I feel too stressed looking after them (which I rarely feel), I will take a one day off from my office without telling anyone, going to a shopping mall and come back with a lot more of love coz I've been missing them terribly. Usually this occurs once a year.

CINCO: confused

My boys.. just like other brotherhoods, they love to quarrel. Usually the adik loves to play whatever stuffs that the abang is playing.. And the abang does not like it.. I am trying my best to instill the morale of 'sharing is caring' inside them but I've read an article where the acceptance of being tolerance among toddlers is different by age.. So, that's their nature by now. Sometimes, I guess I wrongly scolded the innocent.

SEIS: my kind of meals

When you have kids and if you cook, you really need to put your kids' fav meals as number one for menu to cook. Being a lazy mom at times, I will just cook the ones that are favored by my kids. For example, Fahri loves my homemade Nasi Lemak so much.. seeing him eating that much is my satisfaction. He loves Spaghetti Bolognese as well. But, there are times when I am craving for other meals like Tom Yam or Paprik which my kids do not like it, I just couldn't care.. I will just cook my Tom Yam.. hehe.. but this happens like once in a month only...

SIETE: I am a queen

Boys love adventurous activities. They are very active. And I am not that extreme for adventure. So yes I admit, when my boys ask me to prepare them a balloon-swimming pool, I will give 100 excuses and pass the button to my husband. Oh boys, don't you know your mother is a princess? ;p