sushi

My kids really love sushi...
I wonder if i can make sushi just like these...cute panda sushi... yumm!

My diaper idea

I remembered keeping my kids' flat cotton diapers for the past 5 years. 1 have 28 pieces of them and hate the idea of using the flat diapers like those old days...folding the diaper every time i need to use it for diapering my baby. My 4th baby is on the way..and i really want to prepare something different for him.
Here's the idea..Instead of folding the flat diapers again, i change the diapers into modern cloth diaper..
My flat diapers are from the Anakku brand. So i'm going to show all of you how to sew them..

First, fold the flat diaper twice.

Measure around 9 inches from the edge of the folded diaper before sewing it.









This is how it looks after sewing 9 inches from the edge of the diaper.






Then flattened the middle area of the diaper like this..

Trace gusset part from a piece of paper. The top part  is the waist area of the diaper, and below is the front area. Then cut along the line drawn from the paper. The cuttings from the diaper can be inserted into the middle area to give a thicker soaking area.





Then place the diaper on a piece of cloth. Make sure the front area of the cloth facing the inner area of the diaper. Sew along the gusset  and cut off the extra cloth.






Sew elastic band at the gusset area.

Turn out the diaper like this, sew the cloth at the waist and front area of the diaper








                               
Cute... Embellishing old flat diaper. Easy drying ...And malaysian made too because all made from our Malaysian flat cotton diaper, Anakku... 

my DIY sofa savvy for hari raya..

It was one year since we bought the brown pvc sofa. And here there are.. with cracking seat on the upper cover...so ugly. This year's ramadhan was quite tiring for me. With my 4th baby on the way, so i wasn't so eager to buy or sew anything new for the living room. But hari raya was only 3 days away, and i have to do something for the sofa... So, eventually i had an idea. I came up with sewing fashionable covers for the sofa..

                                                                                        Before...

                                                           and after...  
My kids were so excited to see the new look of our living room...and i was so relieved ! 

A cake for my precious ones...

My son kept on asking me to bake a chocolate cake for him.
Well, with not enough butter in the fridge, i started searching for recipes that don't use butter. But instead use cooking oil. So, i straight away bake a cake. Moist and hmmm... yummy too. With adding frosting and a little bit of cream, i eventually created a simple but yummy cake for my kids.

Frosting

Baby food

I remembered a friend told me about homemade food for babies. At that time my first child ( premature baby) was just 5 months old. She told me that the mothers in kampung area of Ranau prepare homemade rice cereal for their prematured babies. But i didn't make one. So i forgot about it until yesterday.

So tried the recipe.
I washed 3 cups of rice. Cook it on dry pan. After it dried, i grind it and put it in a closed container.

Grinding rice cereal

So when i want to cook baby food, i just take 2 to 3 tablespoons of the grind rice cereal.



Carrot puree

and then today... i made purees from carrots and potatoes. Cook the chopped carrots in a pan with minimum amount of water.
After they become soft, blend the carrots in a mixer. Straight away put them in small containers.

The leftovers of carrot purees can be a delicious carrot smoothies ! Refreshing..



After searching for ice cubes containers with lids for quite sometime, luckily i saw them at Giant superstore in 1Borneo. At last i got it !
I used them to keep my apple purees.

Feeding

Last weekend i went to visit my aunt at Taman Melati, Kolombong. She and her family were going for Umrah that evening. I brought my kids, including baby khalid.
When it was time to feed baby khalid, i used a new 'feeding gadget'.
Haha.. it was so easy, just squeeze the bottle, and the porridge will come out from it and flows straight to the feeding spoon. Yum yum.. lunch is served !

Kursus Luar

Sepatutnya minggu depan kami ada kursus BTN. Tapi ditunda ke hari lain. Terfikir juga macamana nak mengurus anak-anak apabila saya dan suami berkursus di BTN nanti. It's going to be a tiring and hectic day. Anyway, it's a blessing that the course is cancelled and my problems are solved! Harap nanti kursus itu dibuat di tempat lain yang lebih sesuai dengan pegawai-pegawai yang ada anak-anak kecil macam kami...huhuhuh