No Rules at Kampung???

Ayesha memang over excited and always looking forward nak balik kampung.. Ada ramai dayang dan sida-sida yang melayan dia...Toh Teh Girl, Tok Teh Boy, kak Iqah, Farhana, Farhani, Abang Gomok, Kakak Gomok, Unyang, Nenek, Tok Uu ...yang pastinya Mama and Papa are out from the list.

Kalau kat kampung, Mama and Papa ajak ronda pun takmau. Mama pegi la dengan Papa. Ayesha tak mau pi! Naik kereta pun tak mau. Nak pegi ke mana-mana semua nak naik motor kapcai.

Aiskrim? Ni lagi satu problem... dia selalu termakan and bila Mama & Papa sedar, dah ngap habis!

Well, memang Mama and Papa relax gila kat kampung...tapi tak tahan la pulak tengok Ayesha comot macam budak kampung sungguh...lepas mandi pakai baju lawa-lawa (that brand new Powerpuff Girls T and Skirt), boleh pegi main tanah tengah panas...

Itulah Ayesha .... our sweet talkative girl.

Masa nak balik semula ke Shah Alam is always a very tiring time to persuade her...

Action Packed Kids

Ayesha memang suka tengok cerita action-packed... Ayesha dah lama tak tengok Disney Channel. La ni nak tengok cerita big girl and big boy saja.

Yeah right... la ni Ayesha's favorite cartoon series is:
1. Dragon Booster - Semarakkan Kuasa Naga !!!
2. Invisible Man
3. Winx club

Was her favorites:
1. Batman the animation series
2. X-men the animation series
3. Superman the animation series
4. Naruto anime - tengok sama-sama dengan sifu (papa)

5. Mucha-Lucha

Side effect: fantasizes even when crying...

Pernah satu masa tu Ayesha marah mama over something...while crying, she said " Nanti Ayesha jadi winx club, Ayesha fire mama !!! hu hu hu..."

Ayesha the Kampit Beras

Ayesha tak berat la papa!

"Ye la tu... hang 19 kg, lagi satu kg dah sama macam kampit beras!"

Everyday, Ayesha will play the same tricks with papa...

Papa: "Kakak, papa bawak banyak barang hari ni, kakak jalan tau! "
Ayesha: "Ala papa, Ayesha lupa pakai shoes la...papa dukung ok. "

If she sees no bags around in the car....
Ayesha: "Papa, hari ni papa tak bawak barang kan, bole la dukung Ayesha! "

If we walk from Tok Mama's apartment to ours....
Ayesha: "Papa, ayesha penat la... papa dukung ok? "

And that kinda naughty smiles makes papa do everything for Ayesha.

Last week, lift at Tok Mama's block was black out... Maka berpeluh la papa "kok-kor" Ayesha turun tangga from tingkat 5.

p/s: weird....apasal la papa tak kurus-kurus even selalu buat weight-lifting activities ni?

Ayesha The Artist

"Papa.. duduk la sebelah Ayesha ni tengok Ayesha lukis!"
and so papa accompanied Ayesha as always... then Ayesha will ask papa to comment on her masterpiece.... "Waaa cantik.....wa, pandai la kakak"

"Ye la, kakak dah besar la papa" (jawapan standard Ayesha).

Mama pun selalu jadi tukang tunggu bila Ayesha berkarya...

Apart from that, Ayesha also suka jadi tukang godek... dismantling all her toys and then put them back together. Papa... toys ni rosak la...Ni Ayesha tengah check ni...

This is her first masterpiece - painting with hands,
masa tu kat Playgroup Ummiku Sayang, USJ Taipan

This is artwork at Adek Cottage Playgroup, Seksyen 9 Shah Alam

Ayesha is Dora The Explorer

Last saturday Tok Mama bring Ayesha to her School. Kids at school are having their camping activity on that day..

When they arrived at Sek Ren Seksyen 6, Shah Alam Tok Mama's friends tegur Ayesha: "Tu dia, Dora the Explorer dah mai!"

Ayesha bila jalan-jalan mesti pakai backpack. Together dengan rambut macam helmet (as papa said) memang sebijik macam gaya Dora the Explorer, a Nickelodeon cartoon series.

Tau tak ????

Yesterday, Tok Mama fetched Ayesha at school.

Farah (Ayesha's gang member) came over and tell tok mama...
"Tau tak? Tadi Ayesha banyak makan biskut kita banyaaaakkkk..... habis semuaaaaa...."

Then Shakirah pun tambah... "iye la..dia makan habis semua biskut Farah"

At night, while we were shopping at Tesco, papa asked Ayesha (dok busy main dalam trolley)...

"Kakak, tadi tok mama kata kan, Farah bagitau kakak makan biskut dia sampai habis.
Betul ke?"

Ayesha:Tak de la papa, ayesha makan satu je...
Papa: Ooo... satu tu berapa????
Ayesha: Satu tu is... one, two, three, four, five la papa....(sambil bilang dengan jari)
Papa: Ces! Lima la tu.... sedap ke biskut tu?
Ayesha: Biskut chipsmore...
Papa: Nanti papa beli biskut chipsmore lagi, you can share with Farah and Shakirah.
Ayesha: Oraitsss papa!

Ayesha’s hidden talent

We’ve just discovered Ayesha’s new talent; she can draw! At 3 years old, she can already draw recognizable images at her magnetic doodle board for us to gawk at. Yesterday she drew my face and her Papa’s and asked us to guess who it was. Of course, with one chubby face with beard and moustache and another smaller face with ‘tudung’, who can make mistake of not knowing what it was. Last few days, she drew some food like figures like apple and bread because she said she was hungry. She also had drawn ‘pictures’ of scenery in which she claimed are playground and swimming pool with her being in it. I suppose that was when she was frustrated that we didn’t bring her there. However, those drawings, I admit, need abstract mind and eyes to translate what they actually were :P.

Among her many toys, her favorite are her doodle board and Lego sets. She can spend hours playing with it alone while at the same time watching her favorite cartoon channel, (by the way, it’s Astro Ceria now). She would build a lot of thing from that little Lego pieces and would show them to us so that we will commend on her masterpieces. Among her distinct creations are robots, animals, pistol, palaces, houses and her favorite KLCC building in which she would say to me, “Mama, tengok ni. Ayesha buat office Mama”.

I think my girl has the right-brain related skills which relates to creativity, imagination and abstraction so I think, we should give her encouragement so that her talent can be unleashed to its fullest potential. According to research, people who can utilize both their left and brain functions are the balanced people and can learn things faster. However, most people only have a distinct preference for one of it.

A learning expert, Daniel Pink said:
We need to extend our learning approaches by focusing:
• not just function, but also design
• not just argument, but also story
• not just focus, but also symphony
• not just logic, but also empathy
• not just seriousness, but also play
• not just accumulation, but also meaning
• not just knowledge, but also learning

I believe we should do that to our kids. Who knows, maybe one day my Ayesha can become an architect, artist or designer as a result of our early nurturing.