the next lap

My daughter has been a handful these recent months. Since the day she learnt to crawl and stand (all within a few days apart), she is all over the place. She has been from my room, where she sleeps, to my mil's room, kitchen, brothers' room and lastly the living room- all in a day's work. There's always something that fascinates her in each room. My room -- the green door stopper, my mil's room -- the ironing board, the kitchen -- the high chair, the living room-- the little pottery vase at the tv console and her brothers' room -- the stacks of papers. Those are her favourite haunts each and every day. It's like she tells herself "Every morning, my task for the day-- visit my favourite places. "

Humairah is now so fun to play with. Her chuckles when I tickled her, her laughter when I played peek-a-boo with her is enough to wash away all the fatigue from my body. I recently found out that she will also burst out into her laughter with me just simply laughing (with no apparent reason) while carrying her. Ahh, my daughter, god's gift to me 10 years after her brother, Hidayat. :)

She had her first hair cut yesterday. I got my sis-in-law to cut her fringe. That settled, there's something that needs to be done for the rest of her hair; which is not a lot by the way.

humairah -- kemerah-merahan ( the rosy one )

I know this particular entry would be late -- in fact it's 3 months late... well.. better late than never. My colleagues have been regularly updating their blog about their baby's development etc2... and they have been telling me, get on the bandwagon and get on the road with this blogging thing. As usual the heart is willing ( and excited ) but the mind is just not... This blog was set in February 2007 and guess what I could remember neither the username nor the password to enter it... Anyway, here's me attempting to regularly update my blog...


February 22/2/08

Humairah binte Mohamad Iskandar -- the name of my lil princess. Born today at 1336 hr. She came to see the world after i experienced about 4 hrs of pain in the delivery suite, weighing a healthy 3.565 kg. During my 3rd month scan, my husband was elated to know that Im expecting a girl. So, it was agreed that Humairah would be the name of our princess. Humairah was the nickname that the Prophet Muhammad pbuh had for his youngest wife -- meaning the rosy one. True to her name, my princess came out looking very "red" in the face...



Well, three months on....


Humairah is a very happy, chubby baby. We are very blessed as she is quite an easy baby to look after. She has got into this routine of feed, play and sleep routine ( come to think of it, which baby doesnt anyway) which the whole family is accustomed to. Given that she has been around for only about 3 months, she has travelled far; well not too far actually, JB ( a few times ), ayer hitam, KL and most recently Port Dickson. With her on total breastfeeding, travelling is not so much of a hassle, no need for thermos of hot water, container of milk powder.. I was very blessed as I got to enjoy a 4 month "maternity" leave, 3 months of real maternity leave + a month of school holiday.. talk about good timing. Clever lil princess...



When Humairah was in her 2nd month, she started cooing and we had fun engaging in purposeful "conversations" with her. However, she always ended up with hiccups though -- some so loud that she could be heard all the way from the kitchen... She has now started a new habit -- drooling... making her brothers irk at the sight of the falling "rain".