Mommy, where is my Pacifier…?

This question always mentioned by her every time she feels sleepy and needs to sleep. Even sometimes when she is not sleepy when she sees it, she will suck it immediately. Well, Naya was too much in love with her pacifier and since she is going to be 2 years old this May we think (my husband actually!!…) we must reduce her addiction to it and at this moment she can release it just a little bit….only a little bit! She always asks for it when she feels sleepy and she must suck it otherwise she will cry so loudly until we can not stand and finally we give it to her. I do not know but I think it is really cute to see her with it, but in the contrary my husband hates it. He said “that pacifier could make her front teeth may slant out or the upper and lower jaws maybe misaligned.

Well, I don’t know sometimes I worry about it too but I think I am in love with it just like her. In my opinion babies are born wanting to suck. So, I think giving her pacifier is much better than sucking her thumb or finger.

Every time, she cries for it, my husband always blame me if I had not gave it to her at the first place, she would not addicted to it. Well, what can I say, pacifier is according to me one of a must have things for baby, and it is really-really cute on her. Besides, it helps her sleep.

Now, we try to hide it every time she looks for it, we try to direct her to other things so she may forget it but sometimes it doesn’t work at all!!! We try to give her cookies, chocolate, or even candy so she can forget about it. We forbid her to use it except when she wants to sleep. I know it is quite hard to make her forget about it despite she looks so cute with it, I must say I a little bit worry if she still use it until she is more than 2 years old.

DPT & Polio immunization

It was 31^st of January, 1 month late for DPT & Polio immunization (She is 19 months, should be at 18 months), oooh how I am a bad mother. I was so afraid with the effect of being so late but it’s okay said the doctor and next month she will get her 3rd HIB Immunization (must be in 1 month distance).

After arriving at home, I immediately gave her some medicine syrup to protect her from fever. she was a very brave baby girl, although she got a little hot for couple of days and her thigh was stiff due to the injection, she still played around with her sisters and brothers (our nephews and nieces). The worst thing was she woke up at 3am and woke up everybody to joint her watching the teletubis…honey it’s 3am in the morning no body wants to joint you watching it!!!… So my husband and I shared the time to accompany her and after 2 hours she keep awake so I replaced my husband and finally she slept at 7am…my Goodness!!! She slept holding teletubis Lala. Lala is her old time favorite! 

My mother always teases her that it is an old fashion to watch teletubis and the pretending to switch off the TV!!…oh Mom….better bake us some cakes than making her cry!!!

No school in early age some people said, we don’t think so!

It is really amazing to see how your baby grows up everyday. Every single day my baby, 19 months Naya shows us every new step of development. Yesterday, she can count from 1 to 5 in English (fyi, she already know how to count 1-12 since she was 15 months) and every time she shows big capitals she will start saying, A-B-C-E-F. Just across my mind that last year she was still trying to learn how to sit and then crawling but now she can run and never get tired of playing and running. I wonder where she gets all those energy. Well, she is a big baby now.

What bother us the most is next year when she will be 2 years old we still don’t have any clue where to put her in school (We are planing to put her in school when she is 2 years old). We want to put her in a playgroup where she doesn’t have to learn so much just learn how to make friends and socialize, play games, sing, just to have fun in her world and maybe in the school where she can learn to know her religion.

Some people said it is too early for her to go to school. Well, it is not school at all, it is just a place where she can learn making new friends. But some people just don’t get it.

All we want for her is in her early age she can learn that social life is important and also how to learn to share with others. I know that she can learn it at home but unfortunately at home she can find only her grandma and grandpa. Better to take her once a while to meet new friends of her age.

Maybe we will put her only once a week, every Saturday so I can take her and accompany her outside the class of course. We think once e week is enough, some friends said if you put your child to school to early they might get bored of school. One day she will say : “I don’t want to go to school anymore”, then It will be another problem.

Happy Holiday!

Here’s come the holidays! It’s really fun to take your baby for a vacation but to have a nice holiday, make sure you have a good preparation.

Trip to other town

Having a vacation to other town is always a lot of fun, out of your routines, relax and feel the fresh air with your family. The point is just making a good preparation before you leave.

• Choose your vacation site. Find much information about it. Since, you will be going with your kids please choose a cozy place without pollution.
• Make sure how long you will spend your holiday and then prepare how many of her clothes and her stuffs you will bring along.
• Don’t forget to bring some medicines and homemade meal, some snacks and fresh fruits. Also bring along enough mineral water and never forget her milk.
• If you use your own vehicle, kindly check the condition, if necessary put it under service for few days before leaving.
• Bring enough money
• To make her more happy, bring along some of her favorite toys

Holiday at Home

For some expected weather reason, having vacation at home or in your own town can be another great alternative and also educated.

• Involve your kids in your kitchen in making her favorite meal or drink. You may also introduce her with many kind of foods while explaining to her the good nutrition in it. For example, explain them the benefit of milk while making pudding or milkshake together.
• Gardening with your kids can be a fun activity, while you can educate them how plants can reduce the global warming.
• Buy book about handy crafts and do it together with your girl.
• Daily activities such as cleaning the pool, dog bathing will be fun activities if you do it together in relaxing situation. While your kids doing their activities, mommy can make a nice food for them as reward.
• If for some reasons your holiday to other town is cancelled, just cook or order some foods, take your kids to visit the nearest orphanage to share their loves and foods. They will be happy to meet some new friends.

Naya, joint a photo contest

Finally we managed to put her pictures into a photo contest. The event is sponsored by one of Milk Company. The criteria is she must show her physical or emotional activities. The winner will gets some cash money and few months of free milk.

Well, we get nothing to loss in joining this event, if she wins (of course we wish she will win ) we will be very-very happy but if she loose then it is not her luck and also it means that we need to make a better photo. 

Honestly speaking it is new experience for us, also in making a good photo, we have no idea if the picture is good or not, we just ask some friends’ advices which one according to their opinion is the best picture. I wish for you my girl, I wish you can win.

The intention of joining this event is not that we want to exploit her for some money, we just think by joining this kind of event she may get some new friends and will help her to coordinate with many people so she will not be a shy girl.

I really want to show those photos in this blog but let’s wait after the winner announcer in February 2008. If she does not win then I will show them. If she wins then it will publish in the magazine.

Cantika’s Birthday

It was 25^th of December, the Christmas day and also Cantika’s 1^st birthday. Cantika is the daughter of our best friends, her Dad and Mom are like family to us. Cantika is very cute baby, her face looks just like her mommy, she has a very soft and white skin and also full hair, very cute baby!!

The party was held in Cantika’s grandma’s house. Her family didn’t invite a lot of people only closes friends and family. It was a lot of fun, there were some games for the kids and everybody were laughing. It is the balloon games, they put the balloons in a big plastic poll and put some money (small numbers) in them and each kid took one balloon with their eyes closed and finally they pricked it. Everybody had a lot of fun. Also, the meal also was very good.

Naya came with out any gift to Cantika because she had gave her a bear doll on Sunday (2 days before her birthday) and it was not wrapped, So Sorry Cantika, we were in a rush and we also did not know that you will have a birthday party.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Cantika….We wish the best of Luck for you, long life and always in good health, also never forget to be a good girl for your family and friends.

Happy birthday baby girl!! We love you.

Naya was born

It was Friday, 25th of May 2006, Naya was born after 2 days in It was Friday, 25th of May 2006, Naya was born after 2 days in Hospital. It was almost 41 months months of pregnency. I could stant the construction, it drived me crazy.

Her Father gave her name Nayla Aaliyah Fauzi, it is from Arabic, it means success, no. one and victory. We discribe it as Nayla for her successful life, Aaliyah for being no one child and Fauzi from his daddy.

God, it makes me cry everytime I remember her born. Cant believe that God gave us such a wonderful gift. It was a amazing !!!