Double Celebrations

How was your Mother’s Day Celebration yesterday? I hope you enjoyed yourselves. For me this year is a rather quiet Mother’s Day because we were paying more attention to Ashraf. It was his birthday yesterday so attentions were focused on him. Sob… sob… heheh.

Like any other Sunday, we had our Brunch at our usual makan place. This time we did not have our favourite ‘Ikan Terubuk’. We had other dishes. After brunch, we went to Gurney Plaza to get cake for our Birthday Boy at Secret Recipes. We bought half of Chocolate Chip Walnut Cake and half of Chocolate Indulgence as most of their other whole cakes were gone by then… to celebrate Mother’s Day. We went home as I was too tired to walk around the mall.

While the boys’ changed to their home clothes, I took the cake out and placed it on the table. I reminded the boys not to get near the table until everyone was ready. I went to the toilet and by the time I came out, this was what happen to the cake…

and the birthday boy….

He simply could not contain himself looking at the delicious, mouth-watering cake!! Anyway the simple celebration went well….

At about 5.00pm, we took the kids to the Botanic Garden for a short walk and to watch the monkeys there.

(vain mum & dad)

Since it was Mother’s Day; I was given the honor of selecting one of my favourite restaurants (as usual actually)..heh. Well… it would be my favourite place, Nando’s!

My greatest joy on Mother’s Day was actually to see Ashraf wean off his pacifier and he did! It was really difficult to wean him off the pacifier. We’ve tried to wean him off when he was 2 but failed. We tried applying Vicks on the pacifier and tiger-balm (yes, we were mean..heheh) but he would simply wiped it cleaned. He would also give us his sweeettesstt smile to get his pacifier. That did not work until he started throwing tantrum. We relented and gave ourselves and him some time until he is ready.

For the past few weeks, we have been reminding him that on his 3rd birthday, there will be no…PUTING! (Pacifier). We would say…”Ashraf, 3 years old and no….” “No Puting!” He would continued… hahah… So yesterday, while putting him to bed for his usual afternoon nap, I had to ignore his pleads and whining. He tried to “bribe” me with his SWEETEST smile and seeing that does not worked, he started throwing tantrum. All did not work. He got tired and with his eyes half closed he murmured…”no…puting”. Hehe.. He slept without his pacifier.

Last night, he asked for his pacifier before going to bed. We too ignored his pleads. And he slept without his pacifier. However, he woke up about 4-5 times in the middle of the night, crying. I had to console him. I think he is going through 'pacifier withdrawal syndromes'. My poor baby… Sorry baby, but Mama and Daddy have to do this. It's for your own good.