hello!
Oh my, so many things happened in such a short time, where do i even start?
i.
ok first of all, we decided to shave airaa’s beautiful thick black locks. gah!
she’s been scratching her face a lot lately sampai luka-luka, and obviously her growing hair is the culprit. it gets in her eyes and ears so we decided to shave it. hubby went on to buy a hair shaver but then i started having second thoughts about the whole thing, in the end he proceeded to man up and shave the baby with me fussing in the background.
although, she looks so much different now, like a cheeky little boy, she is still my little, very very manja baby girl. and i think she’s even cuter without the hair. :)
ii.
the sad bit though, on friday right around the CNY holidays and the whole of last week, airaa fell sick. it was an on-again-off-again demam followed by coughing. i skipped work a couple of days and spent the whole week attending to her needs. every morning she’d wake up and i’d take her temperature and it would be normal, she would drink milk and play but then slowly around the afternoon all the way through midnight, her temperature would go alarmingly high and i’d do the sponge bath to cool her down with the air con and fan turned on at the same time, sometimes kesian juga because i was afraid that she might be cold especially during the night so i would wrap her tiny body with a light blanket and hug her and kalau rasa badan dia panas balik i’d do the cycle all over again. it was sad to see her coughing and feeling so helpless. we took her to the clinic but there was no improvement at all so after the 6th day we decided to go for a blood test and see a pediatrician (but that is a whole other story altogether).
2am @ the hospital: non-stop coughing. this really breaks my heart. :’(
but alhamdulillah she’s doing fine now, batuk pun dah hilang miraculously.
iii.
there’s a whole lot of changes at work lately. this person got transferred to that unit, that person got transferred to this department. currently, i am without two of my superiors. and as much as i planned that once i got the promotion, that maybe i’d request for a change in the work scene… i guess that plan will just have to sit at the back burner for a while. but you know, i don’t want it to stay that way too long in danger of completely falling off the back of the stove, know what i mean. don’t get me wrong, i love my job. being in my current unit with its job scope, i’d have to say is the most interesting and definitely challenging compared to the rest of the department. but i’ve been here for quite a while, i guess i thirst for some new perspectives…
iv.
anyho back to interesting matters, little airaa has turned 6 months today!
so serious-looking. definitely daddy’s girl.
alhamdulillah. she’s been fully breastfed up until now despite all the ups and downs that we face in the beginning. i don’t know how long i’ll be able to keep doing this but for what it’s worth, i think i’ve been blessed enough to even reach this point. this is a big deal for me because it is not an easy feat especially since none in my family does this exclusively. i mean, my mom, well she was a working mom and during her time i guess FM was the way to go. i mean, even grandma feeds all my uncles and aunts with formula milk! and it was funny during my confinement when she would come to my parents home and saw me pumping away on the machine and i had to explain to her how the pump machine works and how to handle the EBM after, you know, the works. it was mind-boggling for poor grandma! haha. but she and my mom supported me through and through.
trying hard to keep the cover intact since she’s started squirming all over the place!
also, we’ll be picking up my parents and izlin at the airport later this evening and maybe have a little dinner to celebrate. they’ll be spending quite some time with us airaa, so that’s something to look forward to. :D :D
ah bliss, i’ve missed my parents too much!
ps: have a great long holiday everyone.
