Babies, babies.

Went off to Wani Dan's Mcmansion in Bangi with Seha. Was a much needed sojourn out of my inmate lifestyle and preserved my mental sanity wonderfully.

So we started off with tea, mee, and keropok! Then came 3 epis of Mr Brain, and I strongly disagree that Kimura Takuya is hot no matter what you both say.

Silenced Seha's pleas and forced her to watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose which she insisted she only watch 10 minutes but ended up watching the whole 120 minutes due to the fact that this movie lies. Its not scary in fact Saffiya, Wani's 2 year old niece watched the whole thing without even flinching. Come on people, the climax of this movie is Emily's exorcism, where she screams "1,2,3,4,5,6!". Thats it?

Disappointment clothed in a DVD box is what I call this.

When the telly bored us, it was on to the kitchen! It was 3 and a half girls (Saffiya too!), a recipe copied from the net, ingredients stolen from Wani's pantry and the need to just bake something, regardless of what! So 5 eggs, and too many chocolate chips later.... our masterpiece was tanning in the oven. And the 3 anak dara switched on Fly FM and danced around at midnight. Realized that Paramore incites little children into talking and baking is literally a piece of cake!

Before....

AFTER!

The result was a diabetes causing cake cuz us smarties used coarse sugar instead of icing sugar. But us being the non-conforming people who don't give 2 hoots bout calorie counting considered it a success! Sorry Adham Dan for you not getting any dinner but I hope we made you smile by the cake in your bekal today.

By the way, baking while carrying a 2 year old around is highly discouraged, trust us, we know.

Had the compulsory gossip / catching up session with my Sayangs. Brought back so many memories, talking to you guys, reminiscing our psycho adventures, dear God, please let me have at least one of them with me in whichever college you decide is the best for me.

Had another round of ghost stories, settled for a Malay one, Kem 505. Wasn't even a ghost story, just another very predictable psycho thriller. Tried to watch Bring it On the sequel but we gave up after it got stuck for the 50th time. Turned our attention to playing "masak-masak" and entertaining Piya.

2 year olds are so easily lied to, so needy. Makes you think 1 thousand times before you want to have one. She's a cute kid, very genial and good natured, gets along with everyone but LOVES her Mak Ni aka Wani and will cry with the slightest hint of Wani going off without her. But she gets over it too easily. Place anything new in front of her and she shuts up immediately. She's intrigued by plastics, toys, phones even if you wiggle your finger she wants to grab it!

Just a cover up, Seha's the one having fun here.

I haven't had a chance to play with a baby since Amalin was here a month ago. Although you have to admire Wani for having so much patience to play with Piya all day, its not easy to see why she does it. You can't help loving a kid. It just brings the house alive! And no one can say no when she's smiling at you like this,

Melts my heart to butter. I miss you kid. It was just 36 hours but you stole my heart. May you grow up to be a model Muslimah, may Allah and Islam be the shining light in your life, may you never lose your smile, may your twinkly eyes always glisten with dreams, hopes and life. May you always be as cheerful and loving as you were when you hugged me and said "Ta Ta".

The first time I flashed the camera in her face.

She starts to become quite a poser...

Even gets upset when I refuse to take more.

Wani and Seha, thank you for an upbeat 36 hours. We must repeat this exercise again. And for those of you who don't know this song, Saffiya wants you to learn it

Cok, cok umpin,

Umpin dalam gantang,

Mana tikus bunting,

Lari masuk lubang!

I think there is a maternal side in me.