Budding musician

Ashraf has received his first birthday present ... very early birthday present, courtesy of his Atuk Yusof who brought it all the way from Malacca. For days, Ashraf has been playing with the box ... so today, we decided to give in to his curiosity and open it up.

Putting it all together wasn't an easy task. Ashraf was impatient and butts in the setting up process. Finally ... all put together and here it is, Ashraf's first performance!!!

Clap, clap, clap!!!

He poses with his organ before starting on the keyboard. He even move his body up and down following the tune ... moving to the groove, you see
Here is Ashraf playing around with the settings .... and checking with the speaker using his palm ...
Here he shows his cousins how to set the keyboard and playing with the keys to show the effects :)
Now is Ashraf at work ... with his little keyboard ... he has yet to see the microphone. Wait till we plug it in tomorrow ...

In short, Ashraf shows lots of interest in the keyboard ... (he better start practising to show his Atuk) so will he be a budding musician ... As he is, he is already playing around with his Uncle Haziq's guitar.

Should I enrol him in Yamaha Music School???

Pemergian seorang yang disayangi ...

Assalamuálaikum wr wb ...

Pada 26 Ramadhan atau 19 October 2006, seorang yang amat disayangi telah pulang ke Ramatullah. Hajjah Kamnah Bte Said telah meninggal dunia pada 12.30 pagi.

Semoga rohnya ada bersama mereka yang dikasihi Allah SWT.

Halalkan segala makan minumnya ... Ampunilah dosa-dosa jikalau ada terkasar bahasa ...

Amin

Adorable little Ashraf :)

I can't take enough photos of little Ashraf ... here he is at the gate, standing on his own using the pillars as support. But I simply can't resist his smile and different faces ... too bad, the photos aren't sharp enough but you can't miss his smile and laughter :)

Sticking his little toungue out!
Next come his laughter ...
And here more laughter ...

He sure is very spunky and happy little kid. Very happy when he has achieved what he wants ... in this case, standing up from a crawling position. Seems like he like to pose too ... and he does it well ... very, very much better than his mom :P

Reaching for the tops ...

Little Ashraf has been practising and practising ... you may be wondering, practising for what !!! Well ... he has started to grasp onto things and pulling himself up. You know what this means??? He will walking soon ... GASP!!! Jeng Jeng Jeng ...

Here is little Ashraf, climbing up using the plastic chair as support. But notice his left hand is touch the table top ... wonder what is he reaching for on the table??? Cookies??? Munchies???
Now with the other hand, he reached for the table top ... not to mention being on tip toe too ...
Opps ... caught in the act!!! Managed to catch his face from the top ... and guess what happens next???
Here he is ... putting his hand down after being caught ... hee hee hee ...

Play time ...

Ashraf just got some new toys ... here he is with his new blue ball ... sure very possesive of it too ... Some snapshots of him playing with his kakaks ...

Come Ashraf ... pass me the ball ... Let Kakak Aliyah teach you how to play ...
Okay ... pass it to me, Ashraf ... said Kakak Hannis ...
And here he is, catching onto the game very fast ... throwing the ball to his Kakaks ... though not so high ...

Cheese!!!

Cheerful little Ashraf is ever ready to take photos ... even in the wee hours of morning when everyone is about to get up for Sahur ... even with his pacifier ... the twinkle of his eyes ... sigh ...

Yes ... my Abi is back!!! Back from his long trip to Geneva. See how happy I am ... I don't care if he's sleeping ... I do want my Abi to hug me at all cost!!! Yippee!!!
Trademark smile ... sigh ... melts his parents' heart ... does your heart melt too?

Ashraf @ work

Eh ... I am busy here and you wanna take my pictures!!!

Okay, go ahead ... take photos. I need to learn how the walker supports itself. Hmm ...
Ashraf is seriously very active now. To the point that we cannot leave him alone for fear that he will get into mischief. Being the walker, he will just zoom by. Seriously zoommmmmmm by you to the other side of the room. Otherwise he will reach out for something to pull himself up to a standing position. Too bad, the walker is mobile so there was no way Ashraf can pull himself up. Will try to grab photos of that happening though!!! Promise

On another note, it seems like his little sibling or sister is as active as her brother. Simply could not keep still and it is very distracting when I am in the midst of work ... She will response to the sounds around her. May Allah protect my little one in my tummy and that everything will run smoothly. The expected delivery date is somewhere in November. For me, I hope she will be another Nisfu Syawal baby like her brother Ashraf.

What's he doing?

Hmm, where is this photo taken? Any takers? Under the chairs and tables ... he just loves crawling under these furnitures and put his head down. Not sure if he is posing or not ... but one thing for sure, he sure knows how to make spaces his playground :)

He just crawled the opposite direction and once again, he put his head down ... sigh ... adorable:

Standing on his own 2 feet???

Ashraf is holding onto the cupboard, you see ... without his support, the cupboard will fall. Hee hee hee ... in actually fact, Ashraf is slowly getting onto his 2 feet after some time, crawling commando style (with his 2 hands). Here he is, with one hand on the bolster and pushing himself up.

Opps ... he's slidding down ...
But hey ... it's all part and parcel of Ashraf's life. With gusto, he attempts one more time and this time, he made it!!! Alhamdullilah!!! Hip hip hooray ...
Sigh ... isn't he adorable. I wonder how his sister will look like. Eh ... ever wonder what time does this happen??? This is right before bedtime. Last morning, he was up from 1.30 to 3.30 am, trying to push himself up. Hmm ... how much more before he will start walking??? Any ideas???

so what has been happening ...

Hmm ... so what has been happening in Little Ashraf's world??? Let the pictures do the talking ...

What's so interesting about this picture??? Look at his feet! He's trying to aim for the remote control at the back of the walker on the coffee table.

Caught in the act of escaping from his walker!!! He actually used the support beams of his walker to push himself out of the walker. Now you must be wondering, has he been successful? Almost ... when he is in the walker, everyone is on full alert, just in case he realll pushes himself out of the walker. There were some near misses ... he was already halfway on the coffee table, with one hand on the fish bowl. Don't worry ... no fishes were harmed during that ordeal.

in the span of a few minutes ...

It's already past Maghrib and it's time for bedtime ... especially for Ashraf. But does he want to sleep tonight .... NOooooooo ... here he is, crying in protest and mumbling and babbling ... in his baby language, perhaps he was saying ... NOoooo ... I am not sleepy yet .... I wanna play!!!
The very next second, he turned around and looked up ... what happened next?
He started smiling and laughing away ... can you believe this little munchkin!!! He was crying one minute and the next laughing ... Nazzer and I cannot make head or tail of this except that Ashraf wants us to play with him ... Aww ... so endearing, right ...
He is ... putting his head down to rest finally with a smile on his face. So what he wants after all is for us to play with him before settling him down to sleep ... sigh ... our little son ...

all in a day of Ashraf's busy life :P

Ashraf is getting active and more playful as each day passes by ... here are some snapshots of him keeping himself and others around him busy ...

Nothing will get in his way ... even a small mattress would part him and the string which his cousin has used to taunt him ...
Okay ... here's the plan ... Kakak will put the jigsaw puzzle together and I will mess it up for you, k ... heheh ... yes ... he really messed up the jigsaw puzzles his cousins has put nicely together ... so moral of the story ... don't do jigsaw puzzle with him. Unless you want to mix the pieces up ...
Eh ... What's Aunty reading? Hmm ... the new paper ... any article interesting for me???

Eh ... where's Ashraf? Where there is curtain ... Ashraf will be around somewhere, playing with the curtain. Above shows him entangling himself in the curtains ... much to his glee. So ... no long curtains ... According to his Nek Yang ... Ashraf's ummi likes to hide herself behind curtains. According to his Wan, Ashraf's Abi like to swing himself from one place to another using the curtains ... so ... you get the picture where Ashraf get this liking for curtains ... :P

sleep time!!!

It's sleep time for little Ashraf ... but even in his sleep, he still is very active that he can no longer sleep in his own bed. He roams around in his sleep and his own bed is too small for him ... see below, the many different sleeping positions and see how he moves about in the span of one night ....

It started like the above with Ashraf in between his Abi and Ummi ... then ...
he turns to the side and decides to be closer to the pillow instead ... then
he prefers the other pillow and so he turns again ...
Nope ... not a comfortable sleeping position ... he decides to make a 180 degrees turn and sleep ...

So what happens to his Abi and Ummi ... either we keep waking up and turn him to the original position or we just follow him and change our sleeping positions. Well ... since you can't beat him ... join him ...

Play time.....

Alhamdullilah... Praises to Allah all mighty.. for his generousity and blessing... Ashraf have grown to be quite an active baby.
Yet Ashraf developments ... are genuinely his friendliness & active observation to his surroundings... and of course... healthy competition among his similar age group... as well



Eh... eh... what's this dangling thingy?















There's something on my head leh... Ah... I wanna take it off...














Hold still Atok... let me touch your moustache.. is that right??













Friend... where are you going? Hold on...














There's something on your back!!
Let me take it off from your back...

Ashraf Cukur Rambut

It's a tradition for muslim to practice ... "Cukur rambut"...which means.. hair triming. It's usually done for newborn or infant, form of appreciation to Allah blessing in providing the couple for a healthy baby and may we wish for better prosperity and future continous health.
In Ashraf case, it's rather overdue but it's better late than never. : )




Ashraf appears abit daze... See how comfortable Ashraf is, infact his behaviour during the whole ceremony was well behaved.
Ashraf did joined in the quran recitation at times... until he doze off at Abi's lap.... ; )




Tok Uchu... (moyang uchu)... Abi's religious teacher, start the ceremony.












Here's the bowl of water that holds ashraf curl, after it's being trim off.
Anyway, Ashraf need a real haircut after this, his hair beginning to thicken and cause him to look rather messy at times..
Barber time... i guess...

Yummy... egg yolk... : )

It's always a pleasure when it's ashraf feeding time now...
He have started consume food by spoon feeding.
Biscuits, porridge, nestum, cream puff, bread, fruit juice, papaya...
and of course... egg yolk...
Just look here...

Hide N Seek

We apologised for the long long absence... The main reason is.... we kinda misplaced our digital camera... searching high and low... finally... we found it...


Ironicly, there's so much to update of ashraf progress...

Look here... Even ashraf was trying to help us...


Abi.... Let me help Umi and you to locate the misplace digi camera.... Let's start under the chairs...














I believe.. it should be somewhere inside... please hold on... ya....










Aha.... this looks familar... could this be???

Eh eh.... that was the digicamera casing.... But where is the camera?? alamak... Where could it be?? Let me think....