Leaps & bounds.

I feel like I should be commemorating today's date but no worthy isi penting comes to mind.
I'm 29 years & 364 days old so that should be a big deal right?
Last day of my twenties,
Turning 3 series,
But honestly, whatevs.
I don't know if I'd still feel this way tomorrow but right now I'm just looking forward to celebrating my birthday but nothing specific about turning any certain number.
I'm not excited, I'm not dreading it, I'm just... Aging. Lol.
Aaanyways, I wrote a post half way about Hilwa's latest milestones but I didn't save it properly & it's gone.
Basically, on 16th February she finally pooped on the toilet.
Yes, it's a hell of an achievement & I'm immortalizing it here.
You won't believe how my entire family celebrated the occasion.
She got 3 presents.
Yes.
So, I think we gave her a few days of still wearing diapers to bed but then decided to sacrifice our sleep & wake her up every few hours to get her to pee on the toilet.
She's had a few accidents since then, but nothing too frequent.
Then first weekend of March we went balik kampung,
& I was nervous about the journey there,
Coz we departed early in the morning & the kids pretty much just sambung tidur in the car so I was nervous Hilwa might accident but she didn't.
I planned the trip with like a military precision, especially about the timing of our rest stops lol.
But she was perfect omg.
When we got to the hotel, we asked for a room with a queen bed n a single bed,
She walked in, saw the single bed, announce it was hers, & she followed through & slept in it till morning.
Two nights in Kedah & all the way back, perfect.
Then March 8th she decided she wanted to start sleeping in her own room at home.
So I shifted her bed out of our room & I asked her many times throughout the day but she was sure of her decision,
& she's been sleeping there every night since.
She takes a lot longer to go to bed every night,
The first 2 nights I was so sleep deprived,
& it didn't help that the 3rd night she fell asleep early otw back from my parent's house so when she woke up again at midnight Ikhwan just told me to go to sleep & he took the kids out to McD lol.
She's still finding her rhythm & routine with her new room but I love that she insists on sleeping there every night.
& these last few days she even manages to wake up & call us whenever she needs to go to the toilet.
She's suddenly growing so much in the past 1 month, I'm such a proud mama.
Ahh 30s, here's to less dependant kids & more me time hopefully lol.

I aint got time to think up a clever wordplay for this title.

Muse is amusing tonight.
It started with a post from their official FB page about a special photo frame of their latest single Thought Contagion.
& I'd say 93% of the replies on that page are just like nope.
One guy even went & said something like is this a test to see how easily manipulated everyone is?
Which brought me to the days of Muse being rebels,
Retaliating when forced to lip sync to Feeling Good,
& apparently they did exactly the same thing again with Uprising.
I'd like to believe back then if someone told them they need a FB photo frame as part of the marketing for their new single,
They'd just show them the middle finger.
I'd like to believe they fully understood & expect us, their fans, to not be the conforming type.
& now they're just... Sigh.
They expect us to upload a photo of us on Facebook with their fancy new single frame *facepalm
Went poking around YouTube & there's actually this guy who takes new crappy Muse songs & remixes or covers them & make it so much better.
Like legit he sounds more Muse than Muse does.
It's so sad.
So sad that there's literally a group that I belong to now,
Of old loyal fans.
We're still loyal to what Muse was, & hoping they'd come around.
I don't even know why I still bother about them.
Occasionally these moments happen & I just need to blog about it lol.

Kingfisher.

On the way balik kampung dalam kereta, I can't help but reminisce,
Masa kecik dulu, to keep us entertained during long trips in the car,
Mama abah invented a game which is to kira burung kingfisher along the highway.
Now that I'm grown up with kids on my own I can't help but marvel at the sheer genius of that.
Kingfisher is a small, bright blue bird with a rather large orange beak,
So it's really easy to spot bila dia bertenggek kat divider, cables or pagar tepi highway.
In a way it has taught me an appreciation for nature on top of a sense of purpose throughout the trip.
Yang bestnya kalau tertidur, nanti bila bangun mesti tanya mama dah berapa kingfisher?
& she would give a definite answer & we know she's not lying or making it up because both she & abah are semangatly counting lol.
Such a simple thing with a great impact.
I don't know if it's another perk of being a teacher's daughter or my parents are simply weird that way lol.
Nowadays kingfishers aren't that easy to spot anymore I do still find my eyes wandering among the greeneries.
I wonder if my own kids are as easily amused when they're bigger.