” Dah lama banget ga nulis… Udah lebih dari empat bulan nih, weleh ke mana aja yaaa?
(Sok) sibuk aja sih…
Sibuk pertama, Raisha n Dinda lagi hobi banget maen di playground. Jadi tiap sore pasti kudu ngangon di playground. Itu makan waktu 1,5 – 2 jam sendiri.
Sebagai akibatnya, dua2nya jadi nyi iteung, hideung pisan euy! Dua-duanya juga menunjukkan kemajuan signifikan di bidang motorik kasar. Dinda udah bisa naek perosoton dari sisi tempat merosot. Sementara Raisha makin kenceng lari-nya. Di sekolah klo pelajaran PE (physical education) sekarang dia udah sering menang lomba lari.

Sibuk kedua… menikmati kembali ke cara lama dalam membaca. Lagi menikmati kembali baca sambil nyeruput teh manis anget, sambil boboan sampe ketiduran di waktu malem (dulu jaman masih sama orang tua terlarang banget, nambah2 minus katanya), ato sambil nungguin anak2 main di rumah. Kembali membaca dari deretan huruf yang tercetak dengan tinta di atas keras. Lebih nyaman buat mata, dibanding baca2 dari lappy dengan sinar berpendarnya yang sering bikin mata lelah. Jadi emang ga nyempetin nulis, apalagi blogwalking.
Dalam 4 bulan belakangan ini mungkin buku yang dibaca lebih banyak dibandingkan 3 taun terahir selama tinggal di KL.

Terakhir yang bikin sibuk juga sih acara masak memasak. Tadinya acara masak selalu diusahakan selesai dalam tempo yang sesingkat-singkatnya; yang penting anak2 makan sehat. Sebagai akibatnya si emak maksain diri masak sehingga lama2 jenuh. Suatu waktu nemu majalah resep Rasa di tempat ibu Deasy. Majalah edisi taun 2008 sebenernya, terbitan Malaysia. Tapi temanya sedang membahas masakan Indonesia. Resepnya sendiri original dari restoran2 Indonesia yang ada di KL, kaya Sari Ratu, Wong Solo, Puti Bungsu. Jadilah mulai sibuk nyobain resep2nya. Ngedapur-lah kita di pagi buta supaya kemakan sama suami sebelum berangkat ke kantor. AlhamduliLlah sih rasanya memang sesuai, meski emang perlu dipertanyakan lagi kuantitas bumbu2 yang disebut di sana. Bayangin aja, ayam seekor disuruh dibumbuin 300gr lengkuas n 300gr jahe, yang bener ajaaa…. kayak apa rasanya yak. Ya pokonya dengan sedikit mengkritisi jumlah bumbu, rasa masakan memang seperti yang di Sari Ratu ituh. Jadinya jatah nginternet di pagi buta sebelum anak dan suami bangun, hilang sudah. Jadilah ya begini, ga nulis2 sampe sekian lama

Ribuan doa dipanjatkan
Allah mengabulkannya…
segera bahkan instan
Ato menggantinya
dengan yang lebih baik
dari apa yang dijangkakan
Ato menundanya
hingga saatnya tepat
Seperti doa yang satu ini
Yang mulai dipanjatkan
sekitar pertengahan taun 1997
dalam setiap sujud
seusai shalat
“Ya Allah, karunia hamba,
suami yang sholih,
yang bisa menjadi imam bagi hamba
di jalan yang menujuMu.”
2 Oktober 2004
Allah takdirkan
saat yang tepat
untuk mengabulkannya
7 tahun doa tanpa henti
semoga menjadi awal yang baik
untuk mengarungi hidup bersama

I love you Schatzy,
more each day
Happy 5th Anniversary

Long time no write, the kids grow a little bit older. Raisha just celebrated her 4th birthday last month. She now became more independent. Eat, shower, pee, and brush her teeth by herself. It helped me so much to lower my load at home as her younger sister becoming more and more active.
Her academic potency was progressing as mentioned in the year end report from school. I guess I don’t need to worry about that.
Instead of latin alphabet she learnt at school, she also has started to learn arabic hijaiyah. At this moment she’s in the second book of Qiroati.
Her short daily prayers/supplication (du’a) memorization started to slow down, not as fast as when she was 3, but it might caused by me. I think I have tought her all the daily prayer I had so I have to improve myself first before teaching her new du’a.
Anyway, she got the first prize for du’a recitation in the Ramadhan Weekend Special for kindergarten class

She has started to memorize short surah (juz ‘amma) and alfatihah. Child is very fast when it comes to memorize something. So I need to add my recitation of juz ‘amma, otherwise she will beat me hehe (I remembered Ust. Muntaha reminded us a lot about this, “Masa dari SD sampe sekarang hafalannya cuman dari AnNaas sampe AdhDhuha aja.” Gubrags, tersindir berat).

Raisha also paid a great attention to music. For the last three month she has started to learn piano lesson at Yamaha Music Course and looked like she really enjoys.

Meanwhile Dinda is 1.5 year old now. Her vocabularies were still limited to bapak, teteh, mamam, mimi. Luckily her gross motoric skills were progressing a lot. She now could climb the stairs without help (and made my heart almost stop beating), unfasten her harness in the car seat (and climb down the carseat to reach me while I’m still driving, omG), climb the chair up and down, etc.
Her fine motoric skills were improving as well. She could feed herself (and make a big mess rightafter), scribble (including on the wall hiks hiks), and play with lego.
She’s also a real copycat. She copied everything she saw which made her interested such as brooming the house, combing the hair, calling with the telephone (and made the home phone broken) singing and dancing to the rhytme she heard.

One thing that made me feel very surprised about her was that she often went to the toilet when she need to poo; took off her pants and diaper by herself and asked me to carry her to the watercloset.

General Comments

Raisha can initiate communication with others displaying greater confidence during role play. She uses language to imagine and recreate roles and experiences during role play. She interacts with others in a variety of contexts, negotiating plans and activities and taking turn in conversation.
Raisha enjoys music and movement. She sings to familiar tunes and enjoys participating in action songs. In literacy, Raisha identifies letters in lower case and their corresponding sounds. She forms some of the letters correctly and produces neat work.
In numeracy, Raisha is able to count, identify, and write numbers 1-10 independently. She however needs a little help from teacher to form some of the numbers correctly.
Raisha recognises differences in quantity when comparing sets of objects. She enjoys completing simple addition and substraction.
Raisha look forward to Physical Education lessons. She follows instruction given by teacher and completes task without much difficulty. She is currently learning to throw and catch balls, bounce balls and balance the beanbag.

Looks like I don’t need to worry about her going into reception class (feeder class for year 1). Actually, I was not expecting her to go up to the next level. At first, I thought to just let her stay in kindergarten to give her more time to play as reception class is much more serious and strict. Unfortunately, Mutiara will cease the kindergarten operation starting next term and will provide two reception class for Year 1 feeder. So, yes, starting September, she will be in reception class. Her class teachers said that I didn’t need to worry since she was doing very well in her class; her report ranged from good to very good, she was mature, always happy at school and very independent. Good job, Raisha!

*picture taken by professional photographer