Grass and Play...

Referring to my earlier posts, the kids and I were in Kedah last week. Me- there for work, the kids just tagged along and using the opportunity to butter up grandma and grandpa...

While their mommy was busy working on Wednesday, they were out playing on the greens on campus. Mysha was terrified of the grass, her grandma even has video proof of it all, hahahaha... Poor kid, mommy and daddy to busy to take her to the park to fool around on the grass and nature. She is such a city girl. I'm beginning to think we should take the kids for some outdoor activities like camping... hmmmmmmm I wonder if they're ready for it?

Anyway, back to the story.... Their daddy drove up to Kedah with their other uncle on Saturday. While waiting for them to arrive, we (my mom, brother and I) took the kids on campus for an afternoon of fun... This time around Mysha wasn't terrified of the grass... The kids wanted to fly kite, even though there was no wind that afternoon. Their uncle had to pretend to the 'wind'. Now, that's a sight -- a scary one, hahaha...

U gotta do this first...

I'll help...

Still trying their best @ flying the kite on their own....


Some adult help... Hey! It's flying... Kinda

After playing around @ the edge of the field, chasing them (which they loved) we headed down to the deer park... Ridzuan was a bit afraid to pet the deers and first, but soon warmed up to them and didn't want to leave. Mysha on the other hand was a different matter all together. She was screaming her lungs out when I took her up close, but was chitty chatty and pointing here and there from inside the car with her grandma....

STOP! U're giving me a headache...

Ridzuan was patting alright... If I were deer I'd go join back the rest of the group! hehehehe... No amount of leaves is worth that hard pat on the head..... Or maybe this guy was just too hungry, I wonder?... hmmmmmm

POCKETS HERE POCKETS THERE, OH MY! POCKETS EVERYWHERE!

I just couldn't believe it! I'm planning to make myself a pair of simple pants for shopping and lazing around over the weekend and had been contemplating of putting an inseam pocket (I found out this word just now, hehehehe... I just called it a pocket @ the side before this).
Unfortunately, being new and sewing with zero formal background in sewing almost made me give up on the idea of sewing a pocket (all you wonderful wonderful wonderful bloggers who have graciously shared your knowledge through series of tutorials and downloadable patterns are my dearest teachers.... thank you so much!).

Somehow just now I saw ikatbag's giveway and went to check what it's all about (not much of a blogger, rarely check my blog. Funny, since the reason I started this blog was so that I could follow others and get updates easily, hehehehe)... Anyway, I was curious about the inseam pocket and there it was! A picture tutorial of how to make the inseam pocket...... I just can't believe my eyes! I'm so excited, it seems so easy.......... Thank you so much

Oh, and the reason for this blog is because I so want those pockets ikatbag is giving away.... My mind's wandering already all the things with pockets I'm going to explore in the very near future....... I hope this entry is a winner......

Oh, yeah... for those of you reading this, this is the pockets I really want to win....

HERE AND THERE...

East and West, North and South.... lately for the past month to be exact, work has taken me around Malaysia.... Soooooo tiring! My poor little Boy and Girl were left to fend for themselves, kinda, sort of... Daddy had to take care of them, kinda, sort of....

The first trip was to Labuan, 21-23 November... Luckily the grandma was there to the rescue... Grandma arrived later in the evening, the same day mommy left for Labuan.... Grandma stayed on for a little over a week.... 29-30 November was Lumut's turn, grandma went back to Kedah the very same same mommy came back from Lumut. So, technically daddy was not alone to take care of the kiddies...

4-7 December the whole Khairul Anuar 'clan' followed mommy to Langkawi. Mommy tried to squeeze in family time and work time. All our plans ran astray due to last minute changes, and we only managed to visit 2 places in Langkawi, The Giant Eagle near the Jetty the afternoon after mommy finished her work and Gunung Matchinchang the very next day before we left Langkawi... We were in line for an hour to catch the cable car up, but was only there for a mere 10 minutes and arrived @ the hotel just in time to check out.

Luckily mommy is good @ planning things, all those chocolate shopping was crammed after dinner (thankfully we managed to get a room @ the Bayview Langkawi @ the very last minute). Mommy had already packed everything before we left for the cable car station, so when we reached the hotel, we just needed to change the kids and grab the luggages... Though it was like the Amazing Race, we still had fun. What's important is that we had time together... Even if it was only to see 2 things out of the looooong list of things to see / visit in Langkawi....

Anyway, back to the here and there thingy... Daddy's true test of taking care of the kids all by himself came later on in the week, when mommy went to Kluang on the 9-10 December... My poor poor poor babies, daddy's still not quite ready yet to take care of you guys without any help from anybody..... Poor things.... Luckily this week it's in Kedah and Perlis, so mommy to the kids along and stayed @ grandma and grandpa's place....

The kids are having fun here, basking in the love and attention from grandma, grandpa and uncle chichik. Ridzuan is spoilt rotten more than ever.... Mommy is gritting her teeth right now. I think they are perfectly flat already and shiny, all that gritting and grinding... hehehehehe.....