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Thursday, November 3, 2011

academic time

Harris' pioneer writing ( 02/11/11)



Last night, Harris surprised me big time. he took a pen and that letter from a bank which was lying on the bedside table then and scribbled those lines in front of me! don't know when and where he learns to hold the pen. probably when i was at work, as he spends most of his day time with my toddler cousin. his cognitive and neurodevelopmental achievement blossom exponentially these days. and oh, i should have mentioned in earlier post, he has learned how to sip from a straw too. We bought this bottle with one-way valve straw many months ago , only now he learns the wonder of  sipping from a straw.congratulation  son.

and that books were bought all the way from France by a friend of mine. Harris loves the pictures inside it. he flipped it eveyday so far. waiting for the day he d speak his first French word :)

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

waiting for the call

harris and  his ducky back. walked against the flow and crossed randomly whenever he wished with his squeaky shoes. oh boy.

in conjuction with the Hajj month , i would like to share with you this peaceful song by irfan makki - waiting for the call .. he does eerily sound like michael jackson..




Miles away, oceans apart
never in my sight always in my heart
the love is always there it will never die
only growing stronger a tears rose down my eye
I am thiking all the time
when the day will come
standing there before You
accept this Hajj of mine

standing in ihram, making my tawaf
drinking blessings from Your well
the Jali to Safa and Marwah
rekindles my imaan

O Allah! I am waiting for the call
praying for the day when I can be near the Kaabah wall
O Allah! I am waiting for the call
praying for the day when I can be near the Kaabah wall

I feel alive and I feel strong
I can feel Islam running in my Veins
to see my muslim brothers, their purpose all the same
greeting one another, exalting one True Name
I truly hope one day that everyone  would have a chance
that they remember you in everything they say
standing in ihram making my tawaf, making my tawaf
drinking blessings from your well
the Jali to Safa and Marwah
rekindles my imaan
O Allah! I am waiting for the call
praying for the day when I can be near the Kabah wall
O Allah! I am waiting for the call
praying for the day when I can be near the Kabah wall



Monday, October 31, 2011

14 mois


Ipad is so not blogger friendly. Been writing  blogposts several times only ended up with publishing error message and the server failed to retrieve what ever i have written. Anyway , today maman has the courage to write again( this time i'm using a proper laptop instead) as i'm quite free this fine Monday evening.

Since 1 week ago,petit harris  has achieved new milestone ; climbing a sofa. Felicitation mon petit! Fine motor wise, he is now able to build a tower of plastic glasses all by himself. He is also able to cap and uncap his own bottle:) although he still needs a helping hand to cap properly, but i guess the fact that he knows the bottle cap should be placed at where it should is an accomplishment worth mentioning. Socially, he is beyond adorable. He gets along with fellow todds very easilly. He loves big crowds especially those of which consist of young kids his age. his stranger anxiety has lessened.  The same goes to his cognitive development. He is very bright indeed.
In term of speech development, harris can say at least 2 recognised single syllable words, namely 'nak' and ' dah' ( which means 'want' and 'done' respectively).

That is an iceberg insight of my lovely little Harris at 14 month old :)

Friday, September 9, 2011

Harris walks

Harris walks!
for the past three weeks he has been taking a few independent steps but today he really walks!
congratulation my boy. sorry maman is really busy this past few weeks. will update the blog more later.

muahxxxx

Monday, August 22, 2011

harris is One!

Happy birthday Harris!




you turned 1 year old yesterday. Maman and papa hosted a birthday party for you. a football themed party :D  well as it was still in holy month Ramadhan, whereby everyone is fasting we held an iftar instead. so most of our friends and relatives turned up at sunset to break fast ;-) you were dressed in Malaysia football jersey, and we bought you  a marvelous  custom-made football pitch cake ( though i wish they put liverpool badge on the cake ball instead of manchester united's)
we had a great time indeed.
and oh, i should also mention that a tooth finally emerged yesterday. a birthday tooth! hihihi.

saaayang anak maman  ni muahxxx!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

new ride


Harris' new ride. Like Mick's:D he loves it a lot in almost every way: rocking, strolling, pushing. thanks Mick's mama for the recommendation ( well, sort of ) :D lepas ni the two of them can race together hehe.

current mode : planning and preparing for Harris' 1st Birthday:)

video of the month

 

11 months old Harris during one of our family trips to the mall. refused to sit on his stroller after 5 minutes and decided to stand up and babbling happilly on the cart!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

standing

2nd of Ramadhan = 2nd of  august : Harris is finally able to stand independently for more than 5 seconds! and he's doing it more confidently now. carry on my dear, keep on trying, aim to walk by August 21st :)

Monday, July 25, 2011

Harris is 11! ( months)

our little joyful prince has turned 11!  He is really a cutie pie. he's at the age of imitating every single gesture we threw at him. He has started wanting for certain things and became fretful if we didn't do things the way he wants it. he loves to bounce, he loves to cruise on all four and pull himself to stand occassionally. he loves les poisson video by Alain Le Lait soo soo much! he shows no sign of teething  so far, though he has started taking solids :D  food wise, Harris is more like his maman, pasta lover! the other day i was eating cheese and herb pasta and fed him with it as well, he likes it so much that he actually licked his lips for the taste of the sauce and  cried when it finished as he wanted more! something he's never done previously!

Harris' new favourite video, more or less similar to what he does routinely :D



happy eleven month Harris ;-)

Monday, July 11, 2011

Impetigo and HFMD

Poor little Harris, just a week after recovering from roseala infantum, he had to bear with purulent nose block with impetigo around his nostrils.soo kesian. this time i treated the impetigo with syrup penicillin. He didn't like it but at least this time he swallowed it and did not vomit it out. the folowing week, just when the honey comb crusted lesion began to resolve he caught HFMD! but from where? I am a paediatric doctor but i spend my entire days in Neonatal ward. i never mingle with todds! i haven't stepped in the paediatric general ward for months! his case was notified to the public health office, and I prescribed him with topical fusidic cream and oral aid just in case he develops mouth ulcer which thank God . until today he doesn't. the vesicular rash are resolving at the moment. Stay strong my son. Maman and Papa love you tres fort!


honey crusted nostrils

My messy bed;-)

breakfast at mcD - Harris playing peekaboo

Friday, June 24, 2011

Dix mois de bonheur

Harris has entered his tenth month of life! He is now able to imitate sounds and gestures. he can imitate hissing, clicking , popping sounds,  and he can follow certain gestures like shaking  and nodding head ( shaking more than nodding though :D ) , clapping hands and peck on the cheek ( more like a smooch on the cheek hehe).
 oh harris dear mama  loves to bisous you too ;-)

He loves cruising on his knees, he loves big crowd ( kalau ramai geng keliling dia, mama xde kat situ pn xpe). and he loves playing with water a lot.

may you grow into a healthy, successful, loving and God-blessed man. amin. :)


Friday, June 17, 2011

Harris caught the sixth disease!

to my relief! he 's all better now :D

well, his history of presnting ( more like past) illness are like this :

Harris had caught up symptoms of upper airway infection eversince we came back from Kelantan to visit his paternal great grandparents. He's been having chesty cough and runny nose which irritated him at times. I opted not to give him anything initially but as the cough persisted more than a week, I prescribed Augmentin for him. Had him been any other kid, i wouldn't have done that, but considering his maman works very closely with fatally sick babies and todds , prompted me to start him on the expensive broad spectrum antibiotic. He didn't like it at all though it tasted sweet. In fact, he'd vomit back everything. Harris!! I let him did so in the beginning. but then, he started to become feverish.not good, i thought. though i didn't have a thermometre, i knew it was high grade clinically. I had no choice but to make sure the Augmentin and the antipyeretic paracetamol got in! So, i administered them orally with a syringe little by little. slow and torturous for him but i had to. i thought he'd never like me after that. luckilly he still wants me as his number one favourite ( tapi everytime mase bagi ubat tu nak kat papa je la :p ) , what troubled me more then, the fever resolved for 6 hours then  kept on spiked again as the antipyretic effect faded . despite the antibiotic. He even had lymph nodes! the whole set of neck nodes ; post auricular, occipital , anterior and posterior jugular chains and even supraclavicular. bilaterally!  they were not matted, which was a relief. I was considering to add up EES but then the fever totally resolved after three days. So i didn't. However, later that evening, I received a call from mon cheri telling me that harris developed  rash all over his body. I was on-call that day. A lot of things went through my mind at that instace. could it be measles? could it be chicken pox? could it even be Dengue?? I asked cheri to bring Harris to the hospital later that night but he didn't as Harris slept rather early that night. So I anxiously waited for the clock to turn 5 the next day so that I can see for myself what's going on with Harris. ( On-call during weekdays mean i have to stay in the Hospital from 8.00 am in the morning till 5.00 pm the next day) . But honestly, when I reached home,  I couldn't think of any spot on diagnosis. It was macular papular in nature , no pustules or blisters. didn;t look like a measles at all, definitely not a chicken pox or dengue rash. Therefore, i called up a senior colleague who was fortunately on-call that day, to get her opinion. She was the one, who diagnosed Harris with Roseala Infantum ( also known as the sixth disease) the minute he saw my son. brilliant doc she is!  no wonder the antibiotic didn't work. It was of viral origin! but on my defence, at that point of time, the high grade fever could not rule out bacteria, could it?

thank you so much, mate. after knowing the diagnosis, when i recall  the history retrospectively, indeed it was quite a textbook presentation. Harris oh Harris. maman loves you so much I can't even think straight!

the rashes has gone today. He is back to his normal cheerful mood ;-)



Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Papa's day

what day is today? Today is papa's birthday! :D
and Harris WAVED  maman goodbye for the first time on this date! i soo felt not wanting to go to work this morning. i wanna be with my son who just learned how to wave as a gesture ! proud of you my little son ;x muahx
currently, both of us are still waiting for papa to arrive home. we have a lil surprise for him :D

i love my two boys. yes, my husband is sooo much a boy in many many ways :p

Saturday, May 21, 2011

9 month old Harris


harris is 9 months old today. He babbles alot, can sit straight without support and his climbing skill has improved :-D today we watched this video together and he loves it! even maman  enjoys the song  :D thanks to Sarah for supplying and recommending all the  baby's learning materials ;-)


Saturday, May 14, 2011

FRANCAIS POUR BEBE

I want to find some French learning materials for Harris but it is virtually none here in Malaysia! :( hmm how much would oversea shipping cost me? Papa, teach Harris more French s'il te plait! =D

Mon Petit Harris is getting more playful nowadays. He has mastered the art of crawling , learning to climb up, sit without support but yet to master proper balancing. and this boy loves peek a boo! He loves his maman too ;-) he would choose me over everyone else. Am soo touched mon cher! merci!!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

my little smoochy pumpkin



Harris with his FP classical chorus gym


with aunty yana



As you can see Harris is establishing his sitting position from tripod to straight. all in a matter of days! suddenly his milestone accelarating at full throttle! and  he has begun climbing up to stand too! :) i love you mon petit harris

Friday, April 29, 2011

The day Prince William marries Kate Middleton

today harris has begun trying to sit independently -  in tripod position. soo cute watching him struggling to balance himself. for the past two or three days Harris has been cruising on knees all around the house like nobody business. he's liking this new piece of freedom soo much! Good for you my dear little baby. seronoknyeee main dgn budak comel niiiii ;x;;x;x

Friday, April 22, 2011

the eighth month

Our dear Harris is 8 months old!  his debut foward commando crawling was on sunday 17th of April 2011 and less than a week later , yesterday to be exact - on the date whereby he turned exactly 8 months old - He started to crawl on all four! felicitation mon petit harris!

today I attended  an 'early intervention programme' course, whereby one of  Malaysia's most prominent paediatric consultant gave a talk on developmental milestone.

I made a right decision not to buy you a walker ;-)

happy 8th month birthday Harris !!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Sunday morning with Harris

Salut, Harris et mon amis. I haven't really written in detail regarding Harris' solid food ( more like half solid actually ) . We began to wean him at the age of 5 month and half. I made a milked mashed potato meal.  his reaction was not very welcoming initially, he gave me this weird grimace upon tasting the food. there's a first time for everything, he had never tasted anything else other than breastmilk up to that age, so when I introduced something new, he cringed. I started off with 2 3 spoon per day then escalated it as days passed and vary the food choice over time.  Now he loves his meal time, Alhamdulillah. 
The picture was his menu du jour - boiled rice with potato, cauliflowers, cherry tomato, carrot , slices of chicken and a few raisins - all blended into a puree. It tasted good :D I have never added any salt or sugar. It is not a healthy practice after all. babies' taste bud haven't fully developed as ours, therefore even if you feed him something that is bland to you it does not matter at all. don't expose your kids to early diabetes and hypertension! anchovies and salted fish are a big NO NO to babies. if you do, you had just risked your babies to developed Nasopharyngeal carcinoma later in life. at least wait until he is more than 2 years old.


this morning Harris woke up quite early. nk kejut maman et papa for prayer kot :D then we did his routine as per usual , playing, bathing, milk feeding etc. but when it comes to his meal time, he was already very sleepy that he actually dozed off while  I was still feeding him. kesian but soo cute and funny. i let him sleep and only resumed feeding 2 hours after that when he was fully awake :D
by the way harris, today is mama's birthday.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Say Merci for Allah's Mercy

Maman is back in the paediatric department since a month ago. Praise God, I'm right on track in the field I wish to pursue :) and for the past solid 1 month, I was placed to take care of NICU, the neonatal intensive care unit - basically a place to nurse and treat very sickly babies.  whenever I attend to them, i would be reminded  of how fortunate we are compared to the babies and their parents... It s soo sad.  Being a parent myself, I know what every mom would have imagined and expected out of their newborns - a term , vigorous and perfectly healthy child. But that is so not what it turned out to be in their cases. some were delivered prematurely complicated with piles of problems along with it such as immature lungs, heart failure, necrotic intestine, anemia, infections and the list goes on. some were born with anomalies, some with brain damage due to asphyxia during labour, some need immediate surgical intervention.. so sad, so so sad :(


It breaks my heart to see all these. but one thing that keeps me going is I know I am doing something to help them get better even if it could not be fully cured. Every morning, I pray that Allah keeps us healthy and fine as we are now and I  also  pray for the kids under my care to be healed and could be discharged as healthy as any other infants. God willing, they would..

Back to your milestone assessment , little Harris,  speech wise you are now able to babble 2 syllables like 'am ma mam mam' and 'ba ba ba bu ba bu ba'. soo cute! visual and hearing - very sensitive, turning to sound and able to corelate visual and auditory senses. fine motor - still palmar grasping but your pincer grip is developing. Very good at transferring objects and becoming more selective nowadays when reaching out for things. hmm mr picky? :p  gross motor : harris is very good at pulling head from couch , can be pulled to stand easilly, sit with support, able to lift abdomen and thigh but not yet sustained, and as mentioned previously, reversed commando crawling! socially : this little baby is a heartthrob! very charitable with laugh and smile, no stranger anxiety but  can be very picky when he is sleepy at night, only chooses to be carried by maman n nenek huhu ( not even the maid).

Now say, Merci Allah!
peekaboo!

Harris zain

heartmelter

Monday, March 21, 2011

sept mois!

Harris is seven months old today!
he is body rolling all over the place and it is soo cute to see him doing the commando crawl in reversed!
je t'aime mon coeur :x muahhhs

Friday, March 11, 2011

Harris' Vintage

taking a nap after a whole lot of reading
Harris enjoying the ride.. exploring God's world

Je t'aime plus que tout , Harris mon petit!

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Harris et maman : shopping adventure

On Monday, the two of us went shopping together! Only the two of us!  you sat queitly on the car seat which I placed at the front passenger seat in papa's car ( yea we kept on using abah/daddy /papa interchangebly) then i pushed you along terraces of shops and you continued to be a good boy. therefore I rewarded you with these two ;-)

and yesterday we went for shopping encore!! this time we went to the mall with maman's car. you were well behaved during the first half of the trip but then you started throwing tantrums on the second half :( but maman bought you stuff all the same! I tested it on you before buying it and you like it a lot! the music, the button, the sounds and the light :)






now, it's story time!!!

Friday, March 4, 2011

harris continues to grow

Salut mon petit bebe et amis

Yesterday we went to the health Clinic again for your 6 month old vaccination. The nurse poked your right thigh and left it bled and briused! this time you cried briefly :)
and at 6 month 1 week 3 days , you weighed 8.35 Kg ( between 50th and 75th centile)  and was 65 cm (25th centile)  in length. congratulation!

At the moment, while I'm writing this,you are playing with your wan and aki in their room upstairs! I am blogging at aki's mini office within the same room ;-)

Monday, February 21, 2011

six mois avec harris

harris is 6 month old today! he is so fond of body rolling   nowadays. mama n abah loves you honey!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

back up, belly down!

Harris has  been able to turn over from supine to prone sans aide at 5 months 3 week :)
my little angel

Thursday, February 10, 2011

beautiful souls and the joy of toys

Salam my dear boy and blog readers. i browsed abah's cam pictures just now and stumbled upon  this..


mashaallah you are soo adorable beyond words. even that does not do you justice. i love you more than any word can say ya habibi ;x

As for the toys below, mama browsed for the exact toys (Ficher price's rock-o-stack) online the other night and jot a mental note that I would want to buy this when you are a lil bit older. But God has rewarded it to us sooner. much sooner. yesterday you received a visit from your dear aunty Hana and she brought you this! She said it reminded her of her own childhood. Abah had this FP toys as well I think. saw it in one of his antique photos. will double check :D
Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah, Thank you aunt hana. we love you ;-)

Friday, January 21, 2011

cinq mois!

Baby Harris is 5 month old today!

he is now 7.8 kg in weight and 62.5 cm in length.
He has now gotten a very good head control , able to reach for objects, mouthing ! turning to sound and cooing incredibly long and loud ;D and of course the fabulous LOLs

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

bottle warmer

look what mama bought you :

nice huh? :P
will post a picture of the three play gyms of yours later. all three are from your two lovely grannies 

should I or should I wait. I am really tempted to wean you to solid right now. hmmmmmm..

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

harris' milk stock

harris' milk stock
Used to be more than these. but is unable to cope with your demand huhu. May God grant me the strength and courage to fully breastfeed you until 6 months. 1 and half month to go! hang in there my dear, after this i will allow you to have a taste of something else other than my milk :P

oh harris has begun reaching out for objects by 4 months plus :) congratulation my beau!

LOL baby!

Harris laughing out loud at 4 months and half old. sooooooooo cute!