Lately I have been at a loss of what to write, and time hasn’t been on my side either. Been extremely busy at work and all.

But last weekend we went to Bagan Lalang. Before this I had not the slightest idea of where that is and that it’s actually a beach! Hahahaha. Quite a long drive there I must say, we hauled the little girl along on Daddy’s photography trip with some of his friends and got these pics. Daddy experimenting with some lighting techniques at sunset (yeah I let my little girl play with the sand during sunset, go figure). He said the technique’s called off-camera lighting or the street name’s ’strobist’. But what do I know yeah. (Some people’s gonna google those names and get to this blog and gonna get really disappointed wahahahah).

In the car, while waiting for the convoy to arrive

Ayra and her sand set at sunset

Daddy's 2 models

Tsk tsk can see bulging diaper

sun's going down now

nice sky kan?

just another one

it's night and she's still covered in sand tsk tsk

So that’s all I have for now. Toodles!

We got ourselves a 50mm lens. Yeay yeay yeay. Loving the results of that baby. Grreeaatttt looking pics come with it! Alas, the first batch of experiment photos went missing together with the SD card. Though I managed to get a few pics sent to me.

Ayra is not eating well. She’s refusing porridge AND her fish-veges-soup with rice. The maid stopped cooking for her. She just eats what everyone else eats. Bananas, curry, ’soto’, ‘keropok’, anything. I don’t blame the maid. It’s frustrating (not to mention a waste) to cook and not have someone eat it. Oh dear what should I do about this girl.

I bought her a baby toothbrush and it’s the cutest thing ever!!! Small and soft bristles and so far she’s accepting it. She will show her teeth (actually she just smiles with all the teeth showing) when we say “tunjuk gigi” and so we can brush brush brush her teeth!!!

Her toothbrush

My little ‘budak baik duduk diam2′ is no more. Hahahaha. Nowadays, she refuses to sit in the high chair at restaurants. She will scream her head off to be let down. She prefers to sit or stand on an adult chair. But what she really wants is to walk around, survey the other tables, pull the table cloth, grab the cutleries, et cetera et cetera. And she refuses to sit on her stroller too. Wanna walk around AT HER OWN PACE and at her own direction. Aiyaiyaiyaiyai.

Me and hubbs are taking half day off today to go watch the D.ark Knight!!! Yipeee guilt-free dating during the weekday. Lunch, movie, jalan2…. I’m sooo looking forward to it!!

Tomorrow we’re going back to JB after soooooo long. It’s gonna be gooooddd though I’m a bit wary of travelling at night.

Pearly whites rabbit teeth

Little girl turned 15 months old 4 days ago and I didn’t get around to posting this until today. Bad Mommy. We went to Sunway Lagoon on the day but pics will only come later k. Here’s some of her milestones:

• Whenever we open the front door, she will scurry over to her shoes and take a pair to bring to us to put it on her. She understands that she doesn’t need shoes indoor but needs them before going out the door. If we decide to go out the door without her, she will cryyyy and put out her hands for us to pick her up and take her with us.
• The other day I was helping lil SIL with her maths homework, so I was scratching some stuff with a pencil on a piece of paper. Ayra saw this and scurried over and held out her hand for the pencil I was holding and made a BIG fuss when I wouldn’t hand it over to her. Tsk tsk. She happily doodled some stuff when I finally relented and passed the pencil.
• She knows that ringing phones are supposed to be picked up. Daddy’s phone rang on the table and she rushed over to pick it up first and straight away tried to have a conversation with whoever on the other side hahahaha.
• Whenever I return from work, I will go and find Ayra. The moment she sees me, she will flash her big wide smile, drop whatever she’s doing, run over to me, hug my legs and ask me to pick her up for her to gimme a big hug complete with pats on the back hahaha. Warms me up everytime! Best part of the day for me.
• She mastered the art of fake crying. Hahahaha. The only way to check if she’s really crying is to check for tears!
• Also mastered the art of imitating. Do anything in front of her and she will be doing it before u know it!
• She has rejected her porridge. So now, it’s rice and vege+fish soup and whatever other people is having. She eats very little now compared to last month, but at least she’s eating. Sigh. Her weight is going nowhere. She’s been 9kgs for the past 4-5 months now and getting stick thin :(
• But she snacks more. Her favourite snacks are fish ‘keropok’ or any type of ‘kerepek’ or anything fried. Tsk tsk oily food! She will even go to the jar where it’s stored, open the cover and get it herself! Oh and another fav food is french fries. She will eat one after another non-stop and ask for more the moment the last piece goes in her mouth! She doesn’t like biscuits, I tried buying teddy biscuits and such but she throws them down to the ground after 1 bite. Sheesh.
• She fake cries when we pretend to be asleep when she’s awake. And she will try to wake u up by repeatedly hitting u on the face, especially the nose. Yes, ganas gila.
• She squints when she smiles. Until her eyes are reduced to slits. People say she got it from me. I dunno…..
• She is really starting to talk and communicate. And she can follow some of what we say. We always cut down words into 2 syllables. Ay-ra. Mom-my. Da-ddy. When she gets lazy to follow what we say, she will go mmm-mmm in 2 syllables as well! Cheeky girl!!!
• Can play on her own for longer periods but we have to keep watching what she does coz she just LOVES dangerous stuff.
• Starts hating the high chair. When we go out and eat at restaurants, we have to ensure it serves fries. She’s contented to sit quietly while munching on fries. But if there’s nothing for her to eat, she will start fidgeting and ask to be let down for her to potter about. She’s also learning to use cutleries. Some restos provide plates and cutleries for kids and I start to let her self-feed by putting food onto her plate. She knows how to use cutleries, so that’s a start.
• SIL’s friend from UK came to stay with us. She bribed Ayra by getting her a set of toy cookeries, including pots, pans, plates, bowls, and fork and spoon and knife. Ayra loved her immediately! Even agreed to kiss her on the first day she came tsk tsk. The power of bribes hahaha. What’s more amazing is watching Ayra play with the set. She knows to ’stir’ stuff in the pots using a spoon, and she will come and feed us with the ‘food’ from the plates!!! Simply amazing I must say. She must have been watching the maids cook and feed her hahaha. She will really go to everyone, fetch some food from her plate and shove it in our mouth while saying “nyumenyumenyum”, her word for yummy!
• She knows Barney! I wanted to get her a water bottle the other day, and she immediately pointed to the Barney bottle when she saw it. I got it for her and at home, she carries the bottle everywhere and pretend to drink from the empty bottle hahahaha.

We are having so much fun with Ayra now… she is so fun to interact with! She learns something new almost everyday and I’m having trouble keeping up with her. I think what I write is just a small fraction of what she’s capable of.

Here’s some pics from our recent trip to Ikea.

On the rocking thingy

The squinting while smiling thing. She looks like a big girl here right?

Having fun with Daddy. She seems to like the horsey

On the shopping cart

Tired after a long day

I have almost nothing to say this time, but I am itching to post something. Have been busy the past week or so (but lazy, go figure) and time hasn’t been on my side and also the pics was in the pc at home and of course I couldn’t be bothered to update from home kan… baik layan Ayra je…

So what shall we talk about? Let’s tell the story of my little miss chatterbox… she IS a real chatterbox, I kid you not. And she is starting to attempt to follow what we say but most words are still too complicated for her and she can only say repetitions.. examples:

Ayra = Aiiiyah!

Hanna = Anna mostly, sometimes Nanna

Daddy = Dada

Mommy = Mama or sometimes Mom or sometimes Mamamamamama

Roti = Titi

Lampu = is still Papp! I am still curious why..

Tok = Tata

When she gets bored of us making her follow what she say, she will just say some gibberish in ‘Ayra-nese’. Her favorite word so far is Aiiii..kapapap! If only we know what it means. She will say this many many times while doing almost anything… One thing I notice is most of her ‘language’ starts from Aiiii…. Is it coz her name is Ayra?? Hahahahaha.

Now, pics of the little darl….. I have soo many backdated pics!!!

Ayra running towards the camera, her fav pasttime now

I like this pic

At Adam's birthday party

Helium balloons

Playing bubbles with ugly shoe rack background

Her first time on the kiddy rider thingy

Big-eyed girl and her big-eyed cat

Mommy didn't even have time to tell that Daddy went to Uganda last week and Ayra wanted to come along by sitting in the luggage

Daddy experimenting with the flash and got this

I said in my previous previous post that those were the last pictures taken with our D40.. it’s because we now own this…

A D80 with 18-135mm lens :) Out of the blue I came up with the idea of upgrading (no need to go into details la, long story hehehe) and less than a week later, the baby was ours and the D40 was sold off. It served it’s purpose and is now in the hands of hubbs’ friend.

So let’s see what the D80 can do… not that D40 is that bad though, but bear in mind these pics are not edited in any way. I am wayyyy too lazy to be editing pics. I just use them as is hahaha.

mommy putting on shoes for ayra

white girl among white chairs

her famous scrunch face (and messy hair)

lately she likes to squat n read la.. like ahpek

in the playroom (that's mommy's fav pair of pyjamas on her)

i like this pic coz her hair looks so nice!! n long!!

ayra and pool of water

at a wedding.. (this pic a bit blur la)

very cheeky face

her very VERY adorable ipanema flip flops that her grandma bought. Ayra has ipanema!! Lucky girl hahaha