The Long Overdue Post.

Long overdue update on the Birthday Girl who turned one many many days ago. More than a week overdue.

My bad.

Nonetheless we had a fantastic celebration, with party poppers and whistles and balloons and cake and lotsa lotsa pressies for her.

I feel kinda sad really that she’s growing up so fast, like I let the precious moments slip through my fingers like sand through the hourglass.

So are the days of our lives.

Hmm…sounds familiar.

So far, she’s still at the cruising stage, sometimes able to stand without holding on, but not for long. At the rate she’s going, I foresee she’s only gonna start walking at 14months. I hope it’ll be earlier though, it’ll be easier on my back.

In the teeth department, she has two teeth below, and four on top, just sprouting but they look like mighty big gnashers. She loves to ‘bite’ people when she’s angered or being plain cheeky.

She has now totally ‘graduated’ from porridge to soft rice, and eating whatever is cooked at home that isn’t too spicy. For breakfast she likes to have prata, toasted lightly, nibbling on it while watching her favourite Sesame Street, and sometimes, the dangdut show Mimpi Manis on the Sensasi channel. For dinner, she will have her rice al fresco in the balcony, watching the cars go by and pointing at the birds flying past. Halfway through her dinner feed, she will demand to sit in the bathtub and be fed while she soaks in the cool water.

She’s wearing size L mamy poko and most of the time she puts on the pull-up type because she just REFUSES to lie down when her diaper is changed.

One of Ooyah’s favourite pastime at this stage is to ‘read’, so whenever she feels like it, she will stagger over to her big pile of books and ‘reads’, mimicking me reading to her. She makes weird repetitive sounds like ‘err ek erk errk err’ on loop while she points at the words (sometimes upside down!) She also likes to pretend to read wordings on tissue packets/ snacks/ bottles that she can lay her hands on. Sometimes she gets her fingers stuck in between the heavy pages of the board books and she will bawl like there’s no tomorrow. I find that so hilarious.

In her one year of life, she has fallen once. May that be the first and THE LAST.

She calls me Mammmm-maaa (in a pleading drawl) and Ramli is Papa. She calls Ramli’s dad Baaaa-Pakk! (that’s what Ramli’s mom calls him!) and calls her grannies….dedekkk (or sometimes tetek hahahahaha!)

She now demands to be taken for a walk every now and then round the neighbourhood.

She will put up her hand straight in the air when her name is called. “Aurelia Sarah, where are you?” and up her hand goes. Then I’ll say other names, (“Maimonah Abu? Jackie Chan? Aurelia….SUZIE?”) she won’t put up her hand, and eveready to shoot her hand upwards when I call out her name again! We cackle like mad all the time because she always almost puts up her hand when we say Aurelia SUZIE or Aurelia Siti or something! (Sheesh. Aurelia SITI???)

And she now screams at the top of her lungs in a piercing shrill scream if she’s ignored or demands something. Real annoying (especially when you’re trying to meet the deadline of an assignment in five minutes). Real test of endurance.

She doesn’t mind it so much when I ’scold’ her, perhaps she’ll just look down or buat bodoh, BUT when her Papa raises his voice at her in a stern way, that’s it. She will bawl like she’s fallen from grace. And she will merajuk with her Papa, to the point of not being able to sleep well after being scolded. This has happened countless times and it takes an apology  on Ramli’s part, to give her a hug, say sorry, and pat her to sleep.

Daddy’s girl indeed. Sigh.

So, it has been ONE YEAR.

From this…

(yeah she was a HEEEYUGGGGE bundle of joy, aight.)

To this

Pshawwwww. Ain’t she sweet?

Happy Birthday Aurelia Sarah.
You may be one, seventeen, or thirty-eight,
but you shall forever be Ooyah Mama’s Baby. Forever I promise.
I love you, (sourish) sweetness , more than you can ever fathom.

Forever yours,
Mama