Gabriel 2nd Birthday, 25th August 2013

Yesterday was the birthday celebration for our precious son, Gabriel Aiden. Time flies so fast. Feels like he came to our life yesterday.

We decided to do just a simple celebration for him. Inviting only family members. Yes, an event only for immediate family. 

The birthday celebration was held at Jack & Pot, Penampang on afternoon. I am glad that most of family members came to attend this birthday celebration. Although it was only a simple celebration, it was fun. It feels great for the family to meet each other.

This family event was attended by two part of families. From my side and hubby's side. They didn't meet each other for a long time, and this is a good catch up, during events like birthday. 

My Favourite Month of The Year

DECEMBER!

Indeed. December is my favorite month of the year. In fact it's my favorite month for every year. Well who's doesn't?.. I bet most of you will be the same isn't it?.. :D Most of our friends might booked for holiday destinations or had sent their leave applications. Well whatever it is, it's for the very holiday season. Everybody is exciting. The HOLIDAY mood is in the air.. :P

I'm counting days for CHRISTMAS celebration. But not only that, I'm counting for BIRTHDAYS and ANNIVERSARY too. (yeay!) 

9 DAYS until my Birthday and 13 DAYS to hubby's Birthday. 24 DAYS to our 5th Wedding Anniversary.

Wow! It's SO exciting. :D

14 Months

Happy Thursday everyone. I am sure most of you are now in the mood of holiday as tomorrow is a public holiday. Some might have a half day leave today. Yes, tomorrow is a public holiday in conjunction with Raya Haji. So, I want to take this chance to wish Selamat Hari Raya Haji to all Muslim around the world.

Well today is our little Gabriel special day. He turns 14th months old today. Time really flies. I can't imagine I have been a mother to him for 14th months now. I thanked GOD. He gave me this priceless opportunity to become a mother. Indeed it was such a great experience especially in taking care of our little boy for full time. I guess all SAHMs out there would agreed with me. :)

Gabriel 1st Birthday Celebration

I should post an entry about my trip to Phuket, but I guess, I should post about this event first. I'll proceed with the Phuket story soon, after this post. :)

Gabriel 1st birthday party was held at Tasty Kitchen Lounge in Putatan on the 26th August 2012. It was really just a simple birthday celebration. We were indeed feel so blessed and grateful that Gabriel is now reached the age of 1 year old. He is not so baby anymore. He is entering to a toddler world and I am sure he is having fun to explore his surrounding.

So, here I share with you some pictures from the celebration:-

Happy 1st Birthday to dearest Gabriel

A year ago , i was over the moon, such a bliss to be granted to a healthy baby boy. Despite the suffering and pain to bring him to the world, it all vanished just by looking his cute tiny face. That is the magic touch of a baby and a mother's experience that nothing can compare. It's indeed a blessing. Thank you God for the greatest gift ever.

Today, 1 year old Gabriel Aiden, his cheeky smile always melts mummy's and daddy's heart. Growing up day by day, discovering new things and eager to explore and to learn. Showing us funny things everyday through his learning process. That is really priceless moment. :)

May his journey to explore the world and to a growing up process will be blessed and always in the path of God has made. I pray may God always be with him, to guide and to protect and bless him in everything he does. Still long way to go. Thank you again oh God that you make us to care this special gift so far with full of caution and love.

Happy 1 year old Birthday my dear Gabriel, mummy's apple of eyes. Grow up and go explore the world. Be a kindhearted boy, generous and respect to others. And most important is keep faith in GOD, cause without Him life would be meaningless. :)

Mummy and daddy love you so much Gabriel.. :)

Touchdown at LCCT

Here i am, updating this blog from Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT), Sepang. Touchdown here at about 10.30pm (12/8/2012). 

Fly from KK at about 8.30pm. The flight from KK should be at 8pm, but delayed for about 30mins.

It's hard to walked out from the house door. It's hard to say goodbye. I hold my tears while saying goodbye to Gabriel. Thank GOD, he didn't cry anymore when he saw me went out of the house. Before this, he was so into me. He can't separate with me for even a second. He will cry out aloud, and I will carry and hug him right away, because I couldn't bear to see him in that situation. But today is different. I guess GOD has answered my prayer. Things become easier when he's not crying anymore, although deep inside my heart it's hard to leave him behind.

Hoping that Gabriel will always fine while I am not there with him. My parents are taking care of him. My mother took 5 days off just to take care of Gabriel.

We'll be heading to Phuket in 5 hours time. Therefore, hubby and I spending our night here. I thought we were the only people who doing overnight here. There are a lot more peoples spending their night here. I guess their flight almost same like us too.

Ok, it's 2.20am. I'll end this post here.
 Will update more soon.

GOD bless.

I am so worried :(

Hello dear friends.. How is your weekdays? I hope all is fine. My weekdays so far so good.

As i mention in my previous post, we ( hubby and i) will be leaving on a jet plane soon. Yes, we will leave this coming Sunday evening.

My heart can't hardly wait for the vacation but deep inside my heart really worried. I don't know what to say. I couldn't say to cancel this vacation to dear hubby as he himself excited for this trip. I admit i am excited, but my motherly insticnt really put me in dilemma.

Gabriel really so into me. He really can't stay far away from me. My heart aches everytime he cries to see me far from him. But i stay in positive and let he learn no too 'manja' with me.

This week started from last Monday, i stayed with my parents. Thinking of to let Gabriel to get use with his grandma and grandpa. I guess he have been in Kudat for a long time, that is why he really not use to see my parents and he will cry aloud whenever my mother or father carrying him. Oh poor Gabriel, how could I leave him in that situation. I was worried till i don't have ideas what to do anymore.

Hubby said, that is why we let him stay with my parents so that he will slowly adapt with the environment and get use to my parents as well. We've been here since Monday, and i observe he is starting to get use slowly. But i am still worried.. I don't know. Maybe that's because i never leave him for a such long period. For an info, we will be on vacation for about 5 days.

Dear parents out there, i am sure you had such experience. Please share how you overcome the problem. I need your help. Your opinion might make me feel ease, and solve this matter. Sharing is caring. :)

Thank you for reading my humble post. See you again in my next post. Perhaps i will write about my vacation.. :)

It's August and I Broke Into Tears..

Hello dear friends,

We were on our 3rd day in August and it's Friday. Yes, weekend is on the way. So what is your planning for weekend?.. I am sure most of you really like Friday cause it's the beginning to weekend isn't it?..hehe..

Well, for us (the 3 of us), will be on our way to KK today. Most probably will head to KK by 2 pm. Yeay!.. after about more than 3 weeks in Kudat, feels like missing KK so much.Hubby's ex-colleague will celebrating his big day tomorrow in KK, so that's the reason we go back to our hometown today. :)

So, what is happening on August?.. Actually I've been waiting for August. Gabriel will turn 1 year old on the 25th. And did i mention that my father in-law birthday also is on August?..yes, it's on the 9th. hehe..

We're planning to do Gabriel's birthday celebration. Not that really a fancy one. Only a simple and humble celebration. The venue is still in discussion. The date would be on the 26th August, at about 1pm. You're invited. Please leave a comment in the comment box if you could make it. :)

And oh ya, hubby and I will leave on a jet plane in 1 week time. It's a vacation! yeay! Can't wait.. :) So, i will update you more on that matter soon. :D

By looking at the title at this post, you must be wondering what was the 'broke into tears' all about.  Here's the story. 

It was right before August, Gabriel called me ' Mama..Mama!' with a loud and clear voice for the FIRST TIME. I was shocked. Surprisingly, he could say Mama with that convincing and clear voice at 11 months old. For an info, he sometimes say words seem like 'Mama" too but not that clear. Without i realized, my tears dropped. I broke into tears. It's a lot of tears! huh.. What an emotional moment. And a memorable one.. :)

He was calling me to asked me to carry him. With that begging face and open arms... Maybe that's the reason I broke into tears too. I was really touched, followed by his calling me 'Mama..' , that's the greatest feeling ever for a 1st time mother like me. Indeed i'm a proud mother.. :P

 With the apple of my eyes :D

Okay, that's it for now. 

Have a great Friday.. ;)

Gabriel's Playroom-continues

I wrote about Gabriel's playroom few days ago. Unfortunately I couldn't upload any photos on that post due to the bad internet line. You can read the post HERE.

How I wish to make a playroom just like the photos below. I Googled on how to decorate a playroom and here what I got. Please take a look a the photos below.

Really nice isn't it?.. I wish I could decorate and create a playroom for Gabriel just like all above. 

Well, I made a playroom for Gabriel. It is not as fancy as the photos above. It just a simple room. But I think it is still lack of decorations and cabinets for the toys. Perhaps I should add more toys?..

Here it is:-

Tada!! Just a simple room. Enough for Gabriel to crawl here and there. 

Maybe I should buy the one like a tunnel thing, because Gabriel likes to crawl under a chair and between his daddy's leg..haha! 

Okay that's it for now.

Thanks for visiting here. Any recommendation for the playroom?.. Leave a comment. ;)

My Baby's Cutest Pose Contest

The MumCentre Malaysia Facebook Page is conducting 'My Baby's Cutest Pose' Contest. 

I sent a photo of Gabriel to join this contest.

Here is Gabriel's photo:-

Isn't he cute?.. :)

Entries are not solely based on votes/threads alone. The winning photo will be judged with the following criteria:
Pose and Cuteness- 50%
Likes/Shares/Threads to entries- 50%.
 Closing date is August 1, 2012.

 So, will you do me a favor to vote Gabriel's photo?.. 

You just click this LINK and vote for Gabriel's photo by clicking 'like' on his photo. 
And by the way, you must log in to your Facebook account first before you do so.

Thanks! :D

 GOD bless. Have a blessed week ahead.

 

Gabriel's Playroom

Since our little boy is going to become a toddler soon, I was thinking of making a playroom for him. It is quite difficult for me to create one. For an info, we are staying in an old wooden house, that is a government quarters here in Kudat. So, there is quite hard for me to think about decorating a fancy toddler playroom or something like that.

The wall also too old and the idea of painting the wall again is a bad decision. I was thinking to just wrap the wall with a wallpaper with plastic kind of material. The old wooden wall is releasing some sort of fungus (especially for that too old wooden house). Hubby is trying to get a claim to repair the whole house but the management just ignore it, and instead they informed him that the house is not deserve to get a reparation works. 

I was quite pissed off about that. Nevertheless, we couldn't just sit there and wait. Poor Gabriel, he still don't have a playroom.

Few days ago, hubby put some effort to clean and wrap the wall as well as the floor in the other room. It's quite simple and I was about to broke into tears as I saw it. Yes, that was because Gabriel so happy wandering, crawling here and there. His smile and cheeky laughs really made my day. :)

The next step is to put toys and mattress in there. Perhaps a small furniture too to keep Gabriel toys.

Okay that's it for now. I really want to put some pictures in this post. Unfortunately the internet line is in bad condition now. I tried to upload several times but it fails to appear.

Have a great weekend ahead. 

Take care.

Look at what I found!

I came across over an old photo of my hubby and his siblings. The photo was kept inside a folder in our desktop but I never seen it before. I guess I was the one who is quite lazy to browse around the photo folders that were kept in our computer at home.

Wordless Wednesday: 11 Months

Gabriel turn 11 months old today :)

Menus for my lil' boy

Our lil' boy, Gabriel has just started to eat rice porridge last week. I was really happy with his development. Before this he only likes to eat cereal and wheat.

I cooked different recipes these few days. The moment he ate the porridge I cooked, I was really happy and relieved. 

I can't describe the feeling. 

A Photobook for Gabriel's Baptism

I saw a deal from ILoveDiscount.my somewhere in January.  The deal was  RM52 (75% Off) for RM208 worth of Personalised Photo Albums from Photobook Malaysia. Without hesisted I grabbed this deal with Gabriel in my mind. Yes, I was thinking to create a photobook for Gabriel.

Just recovered

I just recovered from flu and coughing. In fact, i am recovering. I mean no more flu, but there's slightly coughs. I suffered from headache too while attacked by these flu and coughs. Thank GOD, the recovering day is here. It was almost a week though.

The toughest thing i had to do was to take care of Gabriel (our 10 old months baby) during my illness days. I was afraid he will catch these flu and coughs too. And in my weak condition, I had to entertain him, as well as to feed and give him bath. 

Can't Wait August

Hello dear friends, it's Monday.

Feels like a blue Monday?.. Don't be. Be positive and just think that the time will pass soon. Trust me, time really flies real soon. :D

So what is so interesting about August?.. Well, it would be a big event for my dearest son, Gabriel. He will turn 1 year old on the 25th of August. It feels like time really flies.

Photobook

I am sure most of you know about Photobook right?.. It's a sort of a photo album but it's in a book form. You can design your photobook suit to your interest. But most important is you have to download the photobook design software so that you can design your own album. Once you downloaded the software, you can design your photobook and as you complete the design part , you have to send it online to any printing company. 

I did it for my Gabriel's full moon event. Well, actually I received the photobook about a month ago. I only have the chance to share about it today. :D

The captured pictures were kept in a photobook that I ordered from Photobook Malaysia. There was a promotion for the 8.5"x 11" size. I think the actual price was RM256 and I only have to pay RM100 plus. The discount was about 75%.

Take a look of few of the pages in my photobook below. :)

Eight Months

Yes, it's 8 months now that I am being a mother to my dearest son, Gabriel Aiden. It's also means that our Gabriel is now 8 months old.

Shot by dearest hubby during our recently trip at Simpang Mengayau. I love this pic. Seem there's a story behind it.. ;)

Now that Gabriel is 8 months old, he is showing a lot of progress in the process of growing up. Sometime I find it funny. Because you'll find it unpredictable..haha

The other day, he suddenly can put on his 'cucut' (pacifier) by himself. Terjatuh pun dia pandai pungut balik kasi masuk mulut. Bukan tu seja, dia pandai kasi adjust lg tu kalau cucut dia terbalik..LOL And some more, dia pandai kasi ready tu cucut, lepas nenen trus sumbat tu cucut di mulut dia sendiri, laju lagi tu..haha

It is difficult to put diaper pant too. Banyak guyang ba dia. Tidak mau kena kasi pakai diaper. Kasi masuk satu kaki, sebelah terkeluar. Kasi masuk sebelah kaki, terkeluar lg balik satu kaki..haha..funny.. Penat mommy keraja dia..

And he also showing an attempt to sit on his own. Dari baring, dia pandai bangun mau duduk. Beside that, he also show an effort to walk. You just hold his both hands, and he will step his feet forward.  So cute those little foot!.. :)

And one thing I am happy about is, he really can identify his daddy and me as his mommy too. Every time daddy came home from work, he will be very happy.. Gembira betul dia, ketawa2..and main2 hide and seek sama daddy dia.. Pandai dia cari daddy dia.. :D

He also loves to watched babytv very much. Buka saja la channel babytv, mesti dia senyum and ketawa2 saturang tgk tv..haha.. Mcm org tua2 kunun..

There's a lot more progress. He eat a lot too now. Satu mangkuk boleh habis..hehe.. And kalau kena bawa jalan-jalan paling dia suka.. Lumpat2 dia dalam kereta.. Kalau keluar jarak dekat kami tidak kasi duduk dia d car seat. Of course kalau jalan jauh baru kami kasi duduk dia di car seat..

Ini yang dia suka buat kalau duduk di car seat. Tu kaki mesti naik..

Not only on car seat, anytime anywhere..tu kaki mesti mau bersandar. The other day, we were at KFC restaurant, he kicked the table. Nasib tidak jatuh semua tu ayam2 atas meja.. Adui makin nakal ni budak.. Seriously, he likes to kick and to sandar kaki tempat2 mana saja yg boleh dan yg sampai sama kaki dia..  Indeed he really like kicking. Dari dalam perut lagi ba dia kuat kicking.. LOL..

I feel so blessed to see his progress. The feeling of grateful seem not enough. Thank you GOD for the blessings. And thank you for giving me a chance to become a mother to our son Gabriel Aiden. It's a mother feeling..a mother's happiness that no one can replace.

That's it for today.

Have a blessed Friday. :)

Wordless Wednesday: The Mommy & lil' Son

The Mommy and lil' Son went out for shopping ;)