Little Fairies Part 3

It was 9 July 2011... and amongst the room filled with flower and star cut outs... a princess was sitting prettily waiting for the guests to her 1st year birthday party. The comers were a bit late, but we couldn't really blame them as there was some crazy stuff happening. But nothing was gonna stop this long awaited celebration... :)

We had 2 dresses for Lissy... a princess gown and a fairy-ballerina outfit... complete with wings and butterfly headpiece... oh it was so cute! :) It's like she knows that the was hers because she was the perfect princess and showed no fuss even though she missed her nappy time. The menu? a simple nasi lemak fare and some mihun goreng... and sandwiches and nuggets for the young guests... Everything was simply yum yum... we also had a special surprise for the guests ... some yummy bbq lamb...  :) in conjunction with her birthday party, I had decided to do her aqiqah as a present from her mamanish...

The cake was a princess figure cake made lovingly by her mama long and it was gorgeous! The kids had fun playing about in the car pool and it was just wonderful to have all our close friends over to celebrate her birthday...

Thank you to those who tried hard and made it to make my sayang niece's birthday a special one indeed...

Little Fairies Part 2

Every fairytale has got to have it's ups and downs... Lissy's started with the 'Bersih' incident. I am not a politically loud person... is that the right term? hahahah.... what I meant is that I am not one of those strong minded people out there... but this issue that hit our country, hit Lissy's party as well... it must have been a freak of nature that the theme color for the party is pink & yellow... yessss... yellow... *sigh* The guys were supposed to wear yellow so of course as you can guess... some did not want to do that in case they get stopped by any policemen. So as a last minute change, I requested all male guests to wear white if do not want to wear yellow... basically only the kids and darling hubby wore yellow... tsk tsk tsk

Another hurdle is the decoration part... did I mention before that my mum has officially relocated to Angkasapuri? Yeah... happy news... but stressed out that a lot of baggage and boxes came with the move... our house is now filled to the brim with boxes that they all had to be moved into my pink room just for the party... Yikes! There was also a crazy traffic jam from NPE toll to the house... the night before the event, it took me almost 4 hours to get home after picking up hubby... and no rest when we got back because there were a lot more decorations to do... in the end... I was just too tired to try out some of the stuff I had in mind... luckily it didn't look too bad...

Little Fairies Part 1

To a wonderful event, there must always be a beginning... so here is a story of how the fairyland party for my sweetie Lissy came true ...   :)

The theme of the party is "Little Fairies", and though it would be nice if all the baby girls could wear tutu dresses and fluttery wings, my VVIP guest lists (the babies of course) shows a remarkable lacking number of girls and overwhelming number of boys. 4 baby girls and 7 boys to be exact! hmm... this really kind of makes it hard to even plan the theme color since my sister wanted it to be baby pink, but I don't think the guys/baby boys would show up wearing that color... so we compromised, boys wear yellow and girls wear pink :)

How do you turn a normal looking (though a bit cluttery with furniture) into a fairyland, fir for its princess? Now this is quite a problem for me since I am actually in Kajang currently and could only imagine what would be nice... but of course the magic would come from little mixture of flowers, butterflies... balloons and well... stars....  :) I have started to cut out the cardboard pieces and printed out the rest... let's just hope that the atmosphere will change to that of a fairy tale land once I'm done with the decorative pieces... Found some beautiful deco pieces at party world... but my oh my do they cost a bundle!! Which is so sad...wish that I could at least get one or two... but I have already spent more than what was initially budgeted...

I have decided to gift my beautiful niece her daging aqiqah :) ... a lot of people question me on this and to those who do I will turn my deaf ear on you... As I have so many times repeated, it is my gift and I feel it within me that it is the right thing to do.

So... deco... 70% done.... party pack... 90% done... foody.... (well... a lot will be done the day before) 5%... Hopefully everything will go smoothly as the bday bash is only 4 days away! hehehehe... super excited... and as always, worried about the attendance and if we have enough food and if the deco will look nice...

We'll see.... hehehe -nervous laugh-

A short note on my sayang...

Shiya, my jellybean and sweetheart.... has officially turned 5 months on Friday. What are her new antics...? I find that currently she is a lot more chatty.... agggoooing about and her favorite activity is still bouncing around...she has also discovered that she can move to grasp the object of her desire. Though coordinating her yummy limbs are still a mystery for her to discover and master.

Last week she has proven how much she just adores her papa. She woke up one morning and was picked up by hubby on his way to the take a shower. So he passed Jellybean to me and you know what happened? She kept looking behind her at her papa and start to cry. Hehehehe... the sight was so cute. She has started to recognise faces and is showing her preference (hmmph!). Everytime she hear her daddy's voice she would actively search for it until I asked hubby to just play with her on the bed while I get ready.

She can now wiggle her way across the bed just to grab at something that she wants though the sight is funny indeed and reminds me of a wig worm... hahahaha... so cute! But of course now it is a no no to leave her on the bed all by herself because she will just twist and turn, not caring if she's near the edge of the bed. :P

Like all children, she has discovered the joy that is... the remote control! :P When i placed her favorite ball toy in front of her and the remote control, she actually went for the later... hahaha...

Oh, and we started giving her baby food... but more on that later! ;)

Rolling and tumbling...

My jellybean has started to roll and tumble about... in fact if she dislikes being on her tummy, she'll just flip to her back... :)

She's also started to slide herself forward... or is it sideways?? Hehehe... but she has started to move around... had to remind the maid again and again to watch out for Jellybean because now the only place to leave her alone is in her baby cot... Sweet darling just loves to move about...

As a present to my sayang... (got some extra $$, thank you Pett!  :)  ) I just got her a bouncer! Yeay! Have wanted to get that for such a long time... Now that she's stronger and just looooves to bounce around.... I hope she'll adore her new toy... the maid can also do what ever it is she needs to do in the kitchen while Jellybean bounce around...  Will try and post pics of Jellybean in on the bouncer later when it arrives... hehhe... (nie mcm mummy pulak yg excited!)

That's all for now... ;)

Random thoughts...

During pregnancy:
ME: mmm...b.....haus...!
HUBBY: ok, nak air ape? With ice or no ice?

Post pregnancy:
ME: b...
HUBBY: hmmm, nie mesti nak air... haih...

hahaha... let's get pregnant again then?? :P

Hands... and feet...

It has been awhile since Jellybean discovered her fingers...she would suck at her chubby fingers as though its a tasty popsicle until I have to force her to stop since she sometimes would gag herself! :) Some parents thinks that this is a bad habit and would not let their little one suck at their fingers, but for now... I find that it's her way of discovering herself. Anyhow, my sayang does not like to use a pacifier... so she comforts herself  with her cute fingers... and I find that so endearing!

Now, or rather last week (I think)... she has discovered her feet and toes! :) I noticed this when i would sit her on my tummy... between her usual smiles and attempts to rise to her feet... she would stare at her feet and grab her toes... this can really occupy her as she tries to catch and pull her tiny toes... a new discovery indeed.

On a sad note though... here's a list of her used to be activities that I miss... she no longer does them...:

1. she used to make an 'eh, eh, eh...' sound when she was irritated...
2. a loud shout ..."aaaa"
3. her little mumblings and murmrings... "avooo..." "abuuuu"...
4. she used to love blowing bubbles...
5. lifts her hands up high in a jagged motion

there's a lot more.. but these are at the top of my mind...she's barely 5 months and already I can feel her growing up... and my heart is saying... 'kejap! no so fast sayang!'

I will always remember her milky dance...hehehe... it's hard for me to explain in words what it was like... the dance would happen early in the morning during her 2am or 4 am feeding when mummy and daddy would scramble around to heat up her milk... she of course would be crying and demanding for a fill up. :) and mummy would say... "yeah, let's do the milky dance"... hehehe... and she would hop about and dance for us... (of course with the help of mummy lah!) That is one sweet memory of us three that I hope I will always, always remember... because it only happened during her first month...

-sniff, sniff- ok, enough with the reminiscing... :P