Faithchild

It’s been a week since my hubby’s been away. How I miss him so..

Anyways, my days are spent in my mom’s or my in-laws, shuttling between the two depending on which day of the week Wafaa is suppose to be taken care by who.

That’s the arrangement at the current moment while I’m still able to carry her and the second one hasn’t caused me to be too lethargic.

Talking about carrying Wafaa… she’s getting really heavy for me to carry for long hours in the sling. (I’ve got nothing against the sling, I love it, I prefer it anytime as compared to the stroller which is bulky and which Wafaa hates sitting in.) So, I got a solution … an expensive one. I invested in an Ergo Baby Carrier due to the recommendations I’ve read in the net. The carrier came afew days back. Yeah, it’s good. Wafaa’s weight got down to my hips, so I don’t feel the heaviness (nearly) at all. I think it’s comfy for her too coz she will always fall asleep in it.

Anyway, I was suppose to be updating about Wafaa’s growing up.

So far, this is what she has been doing:

1. Eating nearly anything. She’ll ‘mengecek’ anyone eating even after she has just finished a meal. She’s really a ‘pemakan’ in my mom-in-law’s words. Maybe, this is one trait of her father that she follows… "Eat anything and everything that’s edible and halal!"

2. Her teeth hasn’t appeared fully but can see the whiteness in the gums. Aii… lama jugak, but alhamdulillah, that’s quite good coz she still breastfeeding.

3. She’s blabbering non-stop. ‘Yayaya..nyanyanya.. er er er ama mek’ and others.

4. She will laugh along anyone laughing. (Like as if she understands the joke)

5. Standing without support. Yesterday, she managed to take a step before she lost balance.

6. She’d rather cruise-walk than crawl.

7. She likes to make us play hide and seek and catching with her even though we’re actually minding our own businesses.

8. She can feed herself (not with utensils yet).

9. She stands or claps when she’s excited.

10. She throws tantrums (by wailing and kicking her legs and throwing her body) when she doesn’t get what she wants.

11. She likes to disturb and slap the face of a sleeping person… err, like me, papa, Nyai Ya or Abg Musa.

12. She’s a climber and explorer.

13. She likes to help in the kitchen, main periuk, keluarkan kentang and bawang, main senduk, buat muzik.

14. Oh yeah, 1 new thing I just taught her successfully yesterday (alhamdulillah) was the concept of ‘no more’ or ‘the food’s finished’. I will use a specific hand gesture to signal that the food’s finished. She followed and understood that and then will continue to do some other activities with her.  Before that, everytime she is fed with something or she ‘mengecek’ something from someone, when it is finished, she will surely be frustrated and will start wailing… Hopefully she doesn’t grow up spoilt… naudzubillah!

Oh my, how my baby has grown… While we were on our way to Nyai Salha’s house on the bus today and she was sleeping in my arms (in my Ergo) I was thinking, "How time flies… this little baby is my baby. Just 2 years back, I would be sitting in the bus alone, I can go anywhere I like, do anything I want. Well, I had enough freedom. This child is nikmat, even though it’s difficult. I don’t know how to explain it… I don’t know how the equation make sense that having a family and having responsibilities are more fulfilling than having a single, free life."