New Videos of Feyruz

He turns 15 months tomorrow!

While we were at the orchard for apple picking, Feyruz spent some time eating the apple. His first real apple, and he loved it! Since then, whenever we said “nak makan apple..” he will get so excited to have some :)

When we first used this small tub for Feyruz, he was only half the size of the tub. Amin had to hold him all the time to make sure he wouldn’t slide. Now he sit by himself, and the tub looks very small for him.

Feyruz loves his rice with chicken. His favorite is masak tomato & carrot. I rotate that with masak kicap & sup. Some vegetable he has tried- broccoli, green peas, tauge, sawi, mushroom & carrot. Other food he likes- pisang goreng, keropok lekor/ keropok ikan, pengat labu, bubur durian and fries.

Adik Feyruz in the Belly

So this is one of the ‘cerita basi’ that I haven’t have a chance to put it up on the blog. Been quite busy handling the house negotiations with the seller & the bank, and at the same time Feyruz been sick for a while. But don’t worry, he is in better shape now.

I found out that I was pregnant in Sept when I missed my period for more than a month. Asked Amin to get me pregnancy test, and it took him 2 weeks to do so. I think he was not quite ready to find out the truth hehe… I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t surprise. I remember me & Amin talked about our lives having another baby (after we found out we are getting another one) for a week or so. Just to make sure we are on the same page, and we are ready for another round of having a newborn in the house.

I’m not that worry about the pregnancy and the labor. I’m more scared thinking that I have to take care of two little ones soon. Feyruz with his itching & scratching, and the other one with I-don’t-know-her-condition-yet. Okay I try not to think far far ahead, or negatively, but I’m just not sure about the unknown. I pray everyday hoping that our second will bring more joy and laugh, and make our lives easier. Ameen.. ameen..

So on Oct. 13, we went to my first prenatal visit. Based on my period calculation, our little one should be around 7 weeks at that time. She gave us the due date on June 3 next year. I complained about having pelvic cramps almost everyday. The nurse wasn’t sure why I experience that (but she did say that some women who are having their second pregnancy reported the same cramping problem). She wanted us to come back the next day for ultrasound to make sure that the baby is at the right position and not the reason I had cramps.

Here’s the ultrasound photo we got:

First thing the technician said that the baby looks bigger that 7 weeks old. At 7 weeks, the baby will look like a peanut (meaning you can see the head and the bottom). But in this photo, you can already see a baby with ears, nose, wiggly little hands and feet. So the technician measured from her head to her bottom, and tadaaa.. already 12 weeks! And the estimated due date move to April 26.

As of Feyruz, he was pretty happy to see the ultrasound. Not sure if he knew what that means, but I told him everyday to be nice to Ummi because she got a baby in her belly!

Stacking with Feyruz

Attaboy! I have to help him a bit hehe. Kesian dia trying to stack everything together but couldn’t figure it out.

House Hunting

Few weeks ago, we started looking at a few houses that were within our budget around $130k-$140k. The new houses (built in year 2000s) mostly cost around $160k and above, and located North of KC. Some cheaper (but new) ones have bad location and not so great neighborhood. Even though those houses have the latest appliances installed and great looking from inside out, I couldn’t justify myself to live in the middle of highway and everywhere else to go is around 10-15 mins away.

Then, we went to see some old houses built in 1970s. Those houses have bigger space or really nice patio and backyard for gardening. But other things looked slump. I saw spiders (dead and alive and big one too) around the houses and many many cobwebs in the basement. That freak me out! And we saw large cracks here and there, and really big ones in the basement. Oh my… and in one of the houses, I saw that the owner still have the original stove (in 1970s!). I asked Helen (our real estate agent) how to use the oven since it has some weird buttons that I had no clue how to operate it, and she also didn’t know how to LOL. Ok so no to old houses!

Out of all the houses we saw, we like this one. It is very close to our rented house now. Just around 5-10 mins away. We live on 48th St, and the house is on 63rd. Easy for moving day. It is also located on cul-de-sac (meaning dead-end street), so there won’t be traffic during the day. And the huge backyard is facing the main street (not other houses) with our own fence. The house is a raised ranch, meaning it has two level, upper level and basement.  Here are some photos:

Noticed the basketball hoop. It comes with the house

The door leads into pantry room. More space for food storage.


Living room

Finished basement with a 1/2 bathroom.

We are still negotiating the price of the house and everything else. Hopefully by this weekend we’ll be done with it.

Our All Time Favorite Video!

Feyruz loves watching himself in this video over and over again. Sometimes when he gets upset, we show him this video and it gets his attention. He will start making bubbles too :)

Feyruz’ Zombie Walks

This video was taken on the second week of Raya. He’s been practicing walking for months now. Still learning to balance himself while walking. So far he’s been really good at it.

Feyruz in Action!

We started feeding him rice for dinner since 2 weeks ago. He initially ate a bit only. Now he can eat a whole bowl! He likes his rice with sayur masak lemak, ikan masak asam, and the latest ayam masak tomato.
He tried some pasta for lunch a few times, but he didn’t like it that much. Yesterday he tried mee goreng and he wanted more.
All I can say.. he got the Malaysian taste!

The Tron Mobile

Two days after my Birthday, I got a late birthday present from Hamzah. It was a remote control Tron Mobile thingy! Hana and I took some videos of the car roaming (it can ride on walls)! I'll show you it.

It cost 36 dollars, but it was on sale for $18.00.

Salam Aidilfitri dari Kansas City

We woke up for Subuh and then got ready for Eid prayer.

8.20 am – ready to go!

Feyruz kusyuk listening to the takbeerat.

He sat on his stroller for quite some time before the prayer.

My friend kak Eta & Suzana.

While listening to the khutbah.

I cooked nasi impit, sambal kacang, kuah lodeh (not in the picture), ayam masak merah & rendang daging the day before raya. Alhamdulillah I managed to finish all the cookings by 11pm. No stayed up

Our dear friend Zurin beraya at our house. So cute to see her kids Mika & Sarah with their baju raya outfit. Kak Eta also came later that day to eat lauk2 & kuih2 raya I prepared.

In the late afternoon, we went to kak Emmy’s house to see her newborn. Her name is Asiya Sakeenah. She was born on the same day Feyruz was born, also around the same time, Masya Allah what a miracle!

Feyruz playing with baby Asiya’s swing. LOL he missed being a small baby!

Starcraft Warcraft

Check out my new background: