Playing Together is FUN

 

Can’t wait to see them playing together for real :)

Apple Picking at Alldredge Orchard

This year we went to a different farm located at the country side north of Kansas City. The orchard was not well maintained actually. Lotsa rotten apples, bees and bugs around the area. I got scared a couple of times when Feyruz walked thru the bushes and under the apple trees wondering if he got bitten or something. So after a while, I took Fayyad and Feyruz to the farm while Amin picked the apples all by himself. Took him an hour to get a bucket full of apples!

The farm and playground were much more exciting. They have a lot of chickens (I really meant a lot, like 50s of them running around), kittens, goats and a pony. Feyruz was so ecstatic to see all those chickens. And he kept running around with the chickens. He even tried to get into the chicken coop! Sabar je laaa..

Where are you ayam?

We bought a big bag of Jonathan apples and those mixed apples that Amin picked. Some I made apple pies.

Where’s the chicken?

Feyruz Skidoo!

Too much watching Blue’s Clues nowadays. Before, Feyruz just watch whatever Steve/Joe/Blue does on the show. Recently, he tries to imitate the singing and expression and everything else they did on the show. So when Joe & Blue skidoo, Feyruz also wants to skidoo. One time I saw him put a piece of paper with picture on it on the floor. Then he does the skidoo thing. And he did jump on the picture. Funny! Sometimes when he watched Joe skidoo, he pointed to our picture frame as if he wanted to skidoo into it. Adoii too much imagination.

Feyruz asked me to take this video of him skidoo. Enjoy skidooing!

Little Fayyad

 

This was when he first started to interact with people.

Many ways to express himself. Quite an entertainer!

Fayyad On His Play Mat

 

He’s learning to grab the toys on the play mat. And he looks fascinated with his surroundings. Way to grow, Fayyad!

Feyruz.. Once Upon A Time…

Here are some photos of Feyruz with the same outfit when he was 2 months old. For me, he looks different from Fayyad. What you guys think?

Fayyad Turns Two Months

He currently weighs 11lbs 14oz. Sangat bam bam!

He starts chatting, smiling & cooing a few days ago.

Taken just before he got his 2 months vaccine shots. Kesian… Now he’s down with a fever.

Best video ever! Fayyad chatting with his Pak Tam.

The sad part is, I think Fayyad still doesn’t recognize his Abah yet

Kerenah Anak-anak

 

They usually didn’t play together. But when they did, oh my, it was so noisy and all over the place.

Feyruz got really excited playing with Cik Hana. His closest buddy :)

Feyruz just discovered his Pak Tih. Took him one day to realize that that was the guy who mandi sungai with him back then in Msia,

SSD strikes again! Impressive performance in the T60!

Intel SSD 330 (180 GB) was received in the mail last week and added to Aishah's 'square' laptop - Lenovo ThinkPad T60.

The laptop has had a lot of upgrades over the years, including:

1. RAM to 3 GB (from 2 GB)
2. HDD to 200 GB 7200 rpm (from 60 GB 5400 rpm)
3. Screen to 1600x1200 (from 1024x768)
4. CPU to T7600 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo (from T2400 1.83 GHz Core Duo)

Now, the HDD will be upgraded to 180 GB SSD.  The laptop is quite old (sporting SATA 1.0 @ 150 MB/s Max) - so the full potential of the SSD (SATA 3.0) will not be seen here.

As you can see, the new hard drive is pretty much hitting the limit of the SATA 1.0 at ~ 120 MB/s.  For everyday usage, Random Seek + RW is what you really want to look at - and this drive is around 40x faster than the old drive!

Hopefully it will give the laptop a couple more years - since Aishah is still very much in love with her 'square' laptop.  :)

Last upgrade link: http://beepboy.blogspot.com/2011/01/ibmlenovo-thinkpad-t60-laptop-upgrade.html

Welcome Our Little Boy Fayyad Nooruddin

He was born on April 21, 2012 at 6.31am. His birth weight was 7oz and his height was 20”.

The nurse cleaned him and checked his vital before handing him to me. He stopped crying when he heard my voice. We are overjoyed to have him here at last.

Amin brought Mak Tok & Feyruz that afternoon to see the baby. Feyruz was a little shy at first. He kept his head under the pillow a few times.

At last he gently touched the baby. Yeayy!

 
This little one looks a bit like Feyruz when he was born. But he doesn’t like pacifier that much. While Feyruz was on pacifier almost all the time, this guy takes pacifier for a brief period only.

On the 2nd day, we named him Fayyad Nooruddin.

Fayyad for “generous”
Nooruddin for “light of the faith”

Some photos on the day I was discharged from the hospital.

Feyruz & Fayyad at home One is super active all-over-the-place dude. Another one is a sleepy head (so far).