Suzette's Parenting and Breastfeeding Blog

One weekend, DH suddenly had the mood to make something fun for the kids. He took out a cardboard and transformed it into 2 masks: Ultraman for Ian and Doraemon for Isabel.

Ian so funny, he put the Ultraman mask onto his best friend Babun’s face:

And after seeing Ian did that, Isabel also followed and put her Doraemon mask onto her Julia’s face:

Hahahaha! My kids really had a great fun with their homemade masks. BTW, did you notice that Ian carefully placed the eye-holes on Babun’s face, so that his ‘best friend’ could ’see’ also?

I went to Jakarta last week to run 3 workshops. I arrived earlier on Wed and then followed my colleague to Bandung to do ‘market visit’ (that is to check out local stores and talk to our outlets’ owners etc, like a mini in-depth-interview cum observation study without any research objectives, LOL!).

Well, actually our main agenda is the factory outlets there. I have long heard about the factory outlets and this is only the first time I was brought there to shop. In preparation for that, but not to be seen too eagle (ahem!), I brought just 1 medium ROOTOTE shopping bag that I bought from TinyTapir.

The first shop was glad with my request not to use their plastic bag. However, the second shop rejected it. They said I MUST use their plastic bag. There goes, 2 plastic bags wasted, straight away thrown away the moment I reached my hotel room!

They just don’t understand the concept!

Anyway, my colleague said my bag very nice looking & fashionable ler - at first she thought the first shop gave me that bag and she was so excited wanted to go back to buy from that outlet. LOL!

This is the print of my medium ROO (but pic took from a small size ROO). Rootote is a Japanese brand and made in Japanese, so it is more expensive than Envirosax.

Talking about shopping in Bandung, the things there is not like China, where products are fake. Here, they are genuine branded goods, but being sold there cheaply due to various reasons: out of seasons, limited size, limited quantity, etc.

I bought a sweater for Isabel since she needed one just the next day after I return (we went to Genting Highland!). It costs around RM30, but very VERY nice. I am happy!

And when Isabel saw her sweater, she was so, so, so happy. She walked to me and said, “Mama, this is for me? THANK YOU MAMA!”

Then, I found a set of Disney shirt & jeans, and another set of 3-pcs dress, only RM15 per set! It was on sales, and each has only 1 pc (no wonder on sales). Bought those for Isabel too.

I couldn’t find things for Ian though, coz the boys’ are only T-shirts, which I don’t get excited at all (like what happened in Manila and Bangkok previously). To avoid conflicts, I bought him a set of 3 briefs - with Transformer prints. Wow! He was so excited! We have a habit of washing the clothes before using. He kept on checking the briefs and asked if they are dry enough for him to wear immediately. So cute!

The most happy moment after returning is to see our kids happy face. Isabel is not used to me buying things for her from overseas trips yet, but I think Ian is a bit immuned to it. :p

p/s: The cutest part about Isabel, is her disbelieve look!

We have been worried that Ian has not been interested and/or able to draw. He has not even drew a moon or a flower, etc, but friends at his age are able to draw a lot of things.

Then, few weeks ago, he surprised me…

At night, he came to me and said, “Mama, this is YA“

I was confused, not knowing what he meant. Then, he showed me this:

Yes, that is a Chinese character, 牙, means TOOTH.

Few days later, he drew on this paper, and claimed that it is our new house! He likes to have chimney for our house. Hahaha!

My company has an event today, and gave everyone of us a uniform to wear in the event.

Last night, I tried it on in front of the kids. Well, the uniform is actually a very ugly blouse, with 4 product logos in front and our company logo at the back. The back company logo is so huge that covers at least 80% of the top part, above the waist. Worst is the material, the patches of logos are made of thick and hard cardboard-like cloth.

As I was thinking ‘YUCK’ to myself, looking at the mirror, Ian shouted happily…

“MAMA! YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL, LIKE AN ULTRAMAN!”

So, to my son, Ultraman is beautiful, what a taste he has. :p
And, I LOOK LIKE ULTRAMAN in that awful suit! :p

Last night, when driving home with the kids in my car…

Isabel asked, “Mama, why the car stopped?”
“Oh, that is because the traffic turned red.” I replied.

Then, I reminded them about the rhyme that I used to say to them when they were much younger, which we did with some hand gestures (quite fun).

“Red colour, stop, stop, stop”
“Green colour, go, go, go!”

We then started to say & repeat this a few times, then suddenly Ian said,
“Mama, I remember this, because I drank your nen-nen (breastmilk) last time, and ther is a lot of DHA in it!”

“Wow! Who told you about that DHA thingy?” I asked.
“You lah! Looooong time ago already…” he replied.

Wow! My 4 y.o son has elephant memory. I believe I must have uttered this, didn’t have the intention for him to remember it, but he did!

Maybe the AHA, DHA, bla-bla-bla alphabets and nutrients that milk companies try to copy, really did a good job in my children?