Awal bulan ni Egypt ada cuti panjang dari Khamis-Isnin so long weekend tu 5 hari! En suami tanya nak pergi mana2 ke. Bulan puasa ni nak gi mana pun ye tak. So i ajak my husband to ‘langsaikan’ once and for all lah ‘Arfaan nya potty train project he he

To be honest benda ni dah tertunda sejak dari masa I confinement aritu. Tu timeline asal sementelah cuti 3bulan kan. Alang2 leh potty train terus. Tapi rupanya tak semudah yg disangka sebab he was not ready yet. I lost my cool and I only managed to ‘train’ til day 3 only (or was it 2?) ha ha. Accident every single time. Habis dah kain buruk nak lap #throwback

Then I think ok la I cant do this alone. Hav to bring husband along la this is teamwork. So we deferred till we settled down here in Cairo. And since barang shipping pun belum sampai, rumah ni tak banyak furniture, carpet pun baru selai. Most of the floor ni mmg lantai takde lapik so sesuaiii sangat potty train. Told husband nnt brg dah sampai lg renyah kalau ‘eksiden’ time potty train huhu. Plus its Ramadhan mana tau berkat doa bulan mulia. Yes I did add in my doa time sujud n after solat everytime time puasa kali ni agar urusan potty train ‘Arfaan dipermudahkan…

So bermulalah episod di hari Khamis yg hening ha ha. As usual pesan tiap 5min kalau nak kencing ckp nak yakyak ckp. Alhamdulillah day 1 tu ‘Arfaan FINALLY berjaya kencing kt toilet bowl bila disuruh. Sebelum ni suh kencing tapi tak reti nak keluarkan. Elok pakai seluar balik nnt dia kencing. Tapi kali ni bolehhhh. Dia pun macam happy sebab dia dah tau nak ‘keluarkan’ kencing dia.

Day 1 : siang lancar kita schedulekan dia ke toilet every 2hrs cmtu. Tapiiii malam lepas bukapuasa tu dia eksiden 3x wuwuuw. Selang solat maghrib isya tu kami duk lap la insiden dia

Day 2 : lancar sebelah siang. Tapi sebelah malam ada terkucil sikit

Day 3 : alhamdulillah siang lancar 3 days in a row. Tapiiiii malam dia terberak tak sempat ke toilet aduh.

Day 4 : siang lancar juga. Tapi malam dia terkencing time kami tgh terawih. Padahal dah tny sblm stat solat tu dia nak g toilet tak tp kata taknak. Mujur dia xhbskan kencing so sikit je la yg basah kt karpet wuwuuw.

Day 5 : lancarrr siang malam

Alhamdulillah ya Allah. Cuma sepanjang 5 hari tu dia tak pandai lg bgtau dia nak ke toilet. Maksudnya dia tak reti timing threshold dia dah-tak-tahan tu. So kita kena bgtau dia jom ke toilet. Leh tau dia tak tahan kalau dia angkat2 kaki sebelah he he. Cuma dia masihhh nak tahan kencing xnk bgtau nk g toilet

And tempoh potty train tu dari pagi sampai sebelum tidur. Malam masih kami pakaikan diapers. Target lagi sebulan settlekan malam pulak. Berdasarkan pengalaman, malam nya episod boleh jadi sampai umur 6thn utk bebetul konfiden sbb kena belajar bangun gi toilet tgh malam pulak ye tak

Apapun ni mmg berkat Ramadhan kareem. Alhamdulillah jugak semalam dia dah berjaya bgtau yg dia nak ke toilet bila bebetul nak kencing n yak2

Dulu pun ‘Aaqil potty trained masa bulan puasa jugak. Tahun 2015 🙂

Thank you Allah for your blessings ❤️

Those are 2 milestones which are synonym to a four year old. While the latter is essential to be achieved, we still unable to get it done so far on ‘Arfaan. He is already 4y2m btw. Huhu

‘Aaqil fully potty trained before he reached four. Including night time. So when ‘Arfaan time we didnt expect it is this hard since he can speak and understand relatively much earlier than ‘Aaqil.

The thing about ‘Arfaan is he unable to tell when his pee gonna ‘come out’. He can only tell once he already wet. I tried to potty train him when I was still on maternity leave, back in Nov I think. Did for 3 days (daytime) straight then I gave up. Coz he cudnt tell. Even when he wakes up in the morning his diaper is still very wet. So I think emm he’s not ready. No sign yet.

But now its already April. Still no sign of ‘ready’ to b potty trained. We need to get this done at least by end of summer to make sure that he can be enrolled to school by end of this year. Do pray for us. 🥲

Well however good thing is he does very well in reading. Both Iqra’ and Bacalah Anakku. He is now at Iqra 5 and Bacalah Anakku 6 alhamdulillah. He started Iqra in Nov 2020 and Bacalah Anakku in Jan 2021.

Just casually started ‘Arfaan with Iqra’ as he didnt go to school since we moved to Putrajaya and all he did at home was watching TV. So one day I picked up ‘Aaqil’s old Iqra’ 1 and told him ok if you want to watch TV you have to finish one page first. So this ‘houserule’ happens to be working up until now alhamdulillah.

He started Bacalah Anakku when he enrolled at KSCC back in Jan. And when we move to Cairo, we continue the lesson at home. So every morning before they turned on the TV, he has to complete one page each Iqra and Bacalah Anakku. Simple rule eh.

Oh well not sure whether it will work with other kids. Or even with his adik later. Coz morale of the story from the potty train, every child is different, we can put some benchmark but dont compare as they have their own pace, their own specialty.

Goodluck to us in raising these 3 amazing anak syurga with equal love equal attention inshaallah ❤️

Today marks day-56 of MCO. Few days back our PM8 announced itll be extended to 9th June!! Brace yourself 😌

So anyway sejak 4 Mei hari tu taska ‘Arfaan start buat homeschooling, 30mins session je. Tiap 2 hari.

Mood dia ada masa ok ada masa tak ok hehe. So far dah 3x. Ummi pun kena duduk sama kalau tak dia taknak layan pun ticer tu 😂

Hope that this MCO and Covid19 will be over soon so that we can go back to our normal routine. We miss the school and teachers. And i believe the kids miss their friends and teachers too huhu

Thats all for now. Staysafe, stayathome!

Alhamdulillah hari ini Jumaat yg mulia, ‘Arfaan dah pun 10minggu. Haha trend sekarang kan flatlay semua benda termasuklah anak. Lagi 10 tahun tgk gambar ni sure dah out of trend LOL

• dah rajin senyum. Suka cooing. Kalau dia tgh senyap, kita tenung mata dia. Lama2 nnt dia sengih dan ajak kita agah dia. Gelak2 sampai sedu. Pastu dah. Hehhe
• Kalau burp, lepas tu nnt keluar muak. Masa first 2mths takde pulak muak. Pastu suka leleh airliur sampai basah2 mitten or baju org
• Siang2 dia akan tidur lama lepas mandi pagi dan mandi petang. Masa ni mmg deepsleep. Time ni la ummi nak mandi ke wat kije umah ke layan tv series ke. Eh
• Dah injek vaksin 1-2bln. Alhamdulillah tak demam. Cuma cranky sikit je malam. Dan dedar sikit. Bf kerap sikit esok paginya dah ok. Inshaallah lagi 2mggu amik rota dan pneumococcal pulak
• Ummi perasan adik ni bf tak sekuat abg. Sbbtu berat pun manja2 je naik haha. Apapun asalkan anak ummi sihat k
• Kalau dia cranky atau mcm taktau nak apa semua dah bagi, amik minyak yuyi tu sapu kat tapak kaki pastu massage dia. Pergh tak sampai seminit  senyap pastu siap mengagah2 lagi. Fav tu kena massage. Dpt tips ni pun dari Efi.
• Sekarang bangun sekali je tgh malam. Pastu subuh bgn lg sekali. Nak susu n tukar diaper je
• Yakyak pun dah 1-2x je sehari. Cuma kuantitinya masyaallah. Boleh tahap bocor sampai baju pun kena tukar hohoNi masa checkup n vaksin at 8wks kat Gleneagles KK. Dgn Dr Fauziah. Berat 5.16kg, panjang 58cm. Alhamdulillah Ni pulak masa kita ‘Aaqil dan ‘Arfaan teman Ummi checkup postnatal dgn Dr Seri. Alhamdulillah semuanya A-ok 🙂

Sayu pulak nak masuk keje bila hari2 duk ulit si kenit ni. Huhu. Bertabahlah ummi yaaa