Doodlebops...

Who are the Doodlebops? I forgot to include them in my latest post on what are my kids watching everyday. The Doodlebops are Nabilah's favorite, they simply undeniable funny and loves to entertain children. They are from Canada (too bad, we cannot see their show cause it is too far!) and their shows have been aired on Disney channel for quite some time. Deedee, Rooney and Moe are simple characters that loves to sing and dance for the children. They taught them many things from eating you veggies, growing up, friendships, making music and sometimes, how to make your friends happy. Nabilah will surely glued to her feet (not seat, as she will be dancing and singing along with them during the show) and that will left three of us (Najihah, my husband and I) to do our things undisturb. Hehe.

That's my lovely Nabilah's favorite show other than The Backyardigans for NickJr Channel.

Maybank Online too slow...

I don't know why Maybank2U online banking is too slow today. Usually it will only takes few minutes to transfer funds, view transaction history and other things, but today.. urgghh! I've waited for almost half an hour to finish 5 fund transfers, excluding several disconnection problems. My internet connection is reliable, of course it is since ours is provided by the University. Never down so far. I hope Maybank IT geniuses will look into their traffic problem - add more gateways or servers or whatever needed to make you customers happy. Customers are always right, don't you agree?

It's Sunday..

I woke up this morning only to find my daughters are ready to get out of the bedroom and watch TV. It was 6.30 a.m. I let Nabilah out but kept Najihah inside to make her wear her sweater and changed her diaper. Nabilah sat quietly in front of TV watching Sesame Street.

Well, we let them watch TV. Yes, we did. Even for Najihah who is only turning 10 months old this month. But we choose what kind of programme they can watch. Here are the list: The Backyardigans, Sesame Street, Barney, Dragon Tales, Clifford the Red Dog and Reading Rainbow - these are great programmes for early learners like Nabilah who loves to sing, count and read story books, Teletubbies & Booh Bah - mostly for Najihah because she can see bright colors and movements of those pluffy things flying like rocket in the air but Nabilah loves her Teletubbies too. Sometimes, I let them watch Spongebob Squarepants just for fun with underwater creatures like Patrick the Starfish and Squidward the Squid, but Nabilah knew which is Spongebob, the yellow sponge.

My daughter are very bubbly babies, they can talk earlier than walking. We sent Nabilah to day care, twice a week for half day programme. She loves it very much. At 2 yr old, she can read her ABC's and 123's in both languages. She sang her perfect version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star without any help and now I kind of hearing she's trying Baa Baa Black Sheep and Old McDonald songs on her own. Well, honestly we sang those songs and other native songs like 'Air Pasang Pagi' and 'Buai Laju-Laju' (she can sings those songs too!) to her everyday after she was born - while traveling to work, during shopping, waiting in line and anywhere when there is waiting. I guess that's how she learn to talk and sing and converse earlier than walking. And I noticed that Najihah is following her sister's footsteps since being with mommy and big sister talking all the time, made her want to join too.

I love my children, they are fun and simply irresistible! :-)

Can she eats that?

When I first had Nabilah, I never came across this question in mind. I sent her to nursery with a tupperware full of porridge mixed with veggies and fish flakes for her lunch, I went to work, picked her up at 5 pm and that's about it. For dinner, she ates cereal and sometimes the same porridge I blended a day before. Dinner and lunch, all the same. She never complains (nothing that I aware of) and now she is a healthy bubbly 26 months old toddler.

Now with Najihah, I am staying at home 24/7 with nothing much to do day time except playing and entertaining my kids. Play, eat and sleep. And the routine continues every 3-4 hours for Najihah.. sometimes for Nabilah too, if she is down with flu or fever. So, I kept thinking, can Najihah eats this, can she eats that. The only thing that her paed said, avoid giving her eggs and peanut for allergy precautions. Other thing, he said, give her a try.

I did. First, gave her fish - ok, no problem, then chicken - little stomach ache at first but now she can eats chicken nugget on her own, but I guess it makes her cough a bit, then donut - not sure it has egg in it, but she can't stop asking for more (by sign language, I mean), then ice cream - some says it may contains egg, so I gave her just enough to taste it, let's see what happen tomorrow morning. Hehe. I gave her a lot of other things, just enough for her to taste new food, not until she is full. Porridge with mixed veggies is number one priority in my list of food for her meal. In fact, Nabilah always ask me for her little sister's porridge because the fragrant rice made it more delectable than her rice and chicken soup. I wonder what mommies out there think when they are feeding their babies with new food. Mmmm..

Btw, in Madison, eating ice cream is a must for everyone. Wisconsin is America's Dairy land. Ice cream made in Wisconsin comes from the finest dairies, it tastes different from ice cream bought in store back home. We did not allow Nabilah to eat ice cream that often while in Malaysia, because she will definitely cough after eating it. But here, she ate like 3-4 times a day, no cough whatsoever. Just imagine, the kind of ingredients that they use in those delicious ice cream. Well, we also make sure that there are no gelatin, no added sugar and no ingredients that non-halal when we bought the ice cream.

Oh well, hope my babies are all fine with all food.

Writing?

I need to let this out now, or never. Hehe. I write for fun, but now, I hope to write for living. Sounds good to me. Maybe to all of you, who like to blog, or read other people blog or just like to spend an hour or so, thinking about how you can do to make Earth a better place to live. It happened incidentally. I bid on a project at Get A Freelance, an outlet for IT people to get IT project; web design, scripting etc. I put myself on data entry and translation work, not knowing that most projects offer are IT-based, and I am not an IT person at all (I am an Engineer!!) but I do know HTML, Flash and other website things here and there. So, I bid. Shortly after that, the service buyer asked for my writing samples, and I ended up been paid for my articles!

What I learned after that was I have been wasting too much time while I'm working in the office. I mean when I am in my 'comfort zone' I rarely think outside it. Now I'm here, with tight resources while still determine to get the most for my kids, I did my researches and found out that writing, any kind of writing, whether paid or free, will bring sense of fulfillment to oneself and it is lots of fun. Well, I bet everyone will have fun writing about your kids achievement, your findings and tips and trick handling your children at home, and be paid for. For stay-a-home moms out there, I strongly encourage you to try out, you may have hidden writing talent that you never know of before!

I'm back..

For the past few weeks I was gone. Hehe. Venturing new outlet at Blogit! - the so-called paid to blog avenue for blogger like me. For a 'small' fee, we kind of be paid to blog on anything. Readers (who also subcribers to the site) will read the blog and their subscription fee will be divided to authors that they read. Do you get me? Anyway, I was a bit surprised to see that many people actually read my blog. I wrote mainly about family and parenting. Unlike here, where I can write in 'rojak' term, at Blogit I have to write plain English - no 'rojak' at all. That makes a little bit 'not interesting' for me as sometimes, I like to just pour my thought off, and even put out some 'my-own-term-fot-that-thing'. Well, at the end of the cycle, I write just enough to get 1/10th of my fee back. But somehow, I lost time - writing in between lunch and naptime is not enough to make blogging to paid a significant income for the moment. So, I unsubscribed and back to updates my lovely 'free' avenue to write - rafdina.blogspot.com. I better off with my online store and freelance writing. Hehe.

p/s: If any bloggers out there would like to try out this site - go to http://www.blogit.com/