Of Ben 10 Tak Jadi and How Forbidden Fruit Tastes Best

First of all, if you have no male acquaintances aged 4-10, you're forgiven if you have no clue who Ben is. fyi, he (along with his posse of aliens) is the current budak Terhangat di Pasaran.

It's 3am and I've just finished baking cookies for Sukesy's boys' birthday party this Sunday. The theme's Ben 10 (Ihsan and Rifky are 7 and 5 so it HAS to be Ben 10 lah what else?) and I had this grandiose idea of making Ben 10 cookies. Slight problem - my fine motor skills aren't well-developed, and I have zilch artistic gene in me.

Ilhan was excited the past week, drawing all the aliens for me on the whiteboard and in the air. I let him play with the dough and he made Four-Arms, Humongosaur and Echo Echo free hand. They looked like the real guys, surprisingly. But although the shape is there, the end product is erm..definitely not.

clockwise from the top: Four-Arms, Humongosaur and Echo Echo

Even if you have absolutely no idea what they are really supposed to look like, you can tell that Humongosaur is the most pathetic-looking of them all. Echo Echo's face adalah iras-iras sikit-sikit, while Four-Arms; well, the four arms are there.

Anyway, for the fun of it, meet the real McCoys..

Echo Echo

Humongosaur

Four Arms

To Humongosaur, sorry for turning you into some sissy-looking Marshmallow Man :)

Another mindless trivia at 3 am in the morning:

If I could be a Ben 10 alien, I'd be Four Arms. It's pretty self-explanatory, isn't it.

Ilhan would like to be Echo Echo. His scream is uncannily similar.

The rest of my cookies look pretty decent, if I may say so...

As for Ilyas, while we were busy with the cookies, he was busy with...

Lest you alert Social Services, I am NOT feeding my 10-mth-old junk food. This fella somehow spied that can of Pringles and figured out how to pry the cover open and put his chubby hand in to grab some. And the look says "Once you pop, you can't stop!"

I think it's time to sleep. Tschuss!

 

Expressions - Ilyas 'Izzuddin

I am guilty of negligence. Ilyas is turning 10 months next week and how many entries do I have of him (save for the one announcing his arrival)? None. tsk tsk tsk....

I'm not good at those write-from-the-baby's-point-of-view style found on mummy blogs. So here's Ilyas unplugged - he's brought so much joy and laughter into our lives with his many expressions and feisty character so apparent at this young age. With my new verve in using the digicam, expect him to wrestle (very literally) the limelight away from Abang Ilhan :)

It's going to be a Love-ly day!

Come join us on a lovely Saturday and let your kids (maybe even yourself!) have a hand in baking and decorating lovely sweet cookie treats for loved ones. You might have a hard time stopping them (or yourself :))  from munching the spoils before it reaches the intended recipients though!

Details:

Bake from the Heart (for all ages, young and old)

Saturday 14 February 2009, 11am-1pm

$35

pm/email us at alphabake@gmail.com to register!

The One with the Red Rhino

What a drama. I was at my mum's with Ilyas getting ready to pick Ilhan up from kindy when i got a call from Mdm Nura asking if I was on the way, and that Ilhas has his hand stuck at a door. i thought "Oh that is so Ilhan", tinggalkan Ilyas dengan datuk dia dan bergegas ke Iyad di blok sebelah.

I was greeted by these...

(photos from www.scdf.gov.sg)

...and a crowd of people outside his classroom. "Whoa...a stuck finger can't be that bad!!" I rushed to the class and saw the firemen sweeping the glasses of the broken glass door. Aku baca punya baca as I peered into the room and I saw a teacher lying on the floor, Mdm Haj nursing a bleeding hand, and.....a medic bandaging Ilhan's hand.

So what happened was, this fella somehow got his hand stuck at the hinge side of the main glass door, and the Red Rhino was summoned after unseuccessful attempts to free it. By 15 min the hand was swollen, so it got stuck even more, and the teachers were trying to soothe and calm him down. The SCDF guys put a rug over Ilhan and tried to prise the door open when it fell and shattered over cocooned Ilhan and the poor un-covered teachers.

Injury count: Ilhan's bruised hand, cuts on Mdm Haj's hand and poor Miss Hanis was in shock for a while.

So the little fella and me got to ride in the ambulance to NUH Children's A&E where an x-ray ascertained no fracture. It was some muscle and soft tissue damage. He got to watch Ben10 on Youtube while the doctor examined him and got him in a sling, hand all tightly wrapped. He also got plenty of sayang-sayang, dukung all the time cos we forgot his sandals in school. And the rest of the week off.

I hope he's learnt his lesson - Jangan Main Pintu.

me and the casualty

the view from where we were strapped

at triage

Dr Lim warming him up, but Ilhan was in no mood for corny jokes..hahaha

cleaning off the blood and shards of glass before x-ray

alalalalalala....sedihnya si mangsa....

nope...no fracture

all done!

his weird forced smile; tak sakit lagi tu, tengok ben10 in the doc's office dah baik dah.

meanwhile, his mother harbours thoughts of becoming a nurse....(ok go on angah and icu, LAUGH  at me...:P)