10.09 - Lievell

Sunday, October 25, 2009

11:13 AM

Fritz : 7th month - Slide

Fritz : 7th month - Slide
12:07 AM

Fritz : 7th month

Fritz : 7th month
me, Fritz Lievell in my 7th month:

- produces sounds with high tones (hears like screaming and shouting)
- loves Barney to Baby Einstein (Barney fulls of songs)
- loves to see the pictures in a book and listen the story
- enjoy singing songs with Mom
- when playing hide and seek, is able to find the voice's source and where we're hiding (he put his head down or up looking for us)
- has gorgeous eyes to scan every single things (curious to know something and explore something new)
- moves actively from back to stomach and vice versa, also able to push his but up (wishing he's able to sit by himself in a month)
- can open his palm when we say "bye-bye"
- can tap his hand on the flat surface
- can joins his little fingers into praying style
- can hold his two feet and play with them
- is getting thinner
- moody in eating his meals
- has a schedule of life now....hihihihi...

Schedule of Fritz:
6.30 / 7.00 Wake up and drink milk
7.00 - 7.30 Play by himself or with dad
7.30 See dad's going to work
8.00 Massage time
8.20 Bathing time
8.30 Sunbathing time
9.00 Sleep for a while
9.30 Breakfast
10.00 Watch movie / play by himself or with Mom/Uncle/Opa

11.30 Lunch
12.00 Napping time with Mom / play again with Mom until fall asleep
15.30 / 16.00 Dinner
16.30 Bathing time
17.00 Sleep for a while

18.00 Gather with complete family
22.00 Sleeping till morning....


Moments:
1. Going to Grand Indonesia (29th September) and taking lots of photos...one of it is published on Mother&Baby Magazine October edition...the saddest is Mom's camera was broken completely because of felt down. Now, waiting for the new one.

2. Black out @ home....happened 5 times (I think) and we've been to somewhere with air cond inside...hot...hot.....mostly we went to the mall

3. Visiting Mom's (ex) work place @ Apple Tree Preschool Sunter (2nd October)...everybody loves Fritz....made Mom feeling blue, remembering the time past....

4. Uncle Don's coming to Jakarta (11th October)...and seeing Rafael again...we met at Taman Anggrek for a moment.

5. Receiving the photos album from Rikari....nice pictures and Fritz is going to have it again on December with others' photgrapher. We can't upload in Facebook, one person will be jealous...hix..hix....

6. 1st Wedding Party (Uncle Jule & Aunty Bea on 24th October)....and totally messed up...crying because of the loud sound. He never heard someone using a microphone. He felt headache, I think....




Friday, October 23, 2009

9:13 AM

Visiting (ex) Apple Tree Preschool Sunter

Visiting (ex) Apple Tree Preschool Sunter
2nd October 2009
noon


Coming back to this place reminded me with many memories things. I loved to work in this place, really. The environment they created were so friendly. They accepted all the new things. However, I should resign from there because of delivery and I decided to take care of my beloved son. It was very hard to release it but that's life, there are come and go things.

Here were the memories:
I came there with only 6 staffs of teacher and 1 administrator. It's was a very beginning journey we had. Then I handled a class with 2 other teachers. Many up and down things; angry, happy, sad, excited and else..

The most adorable and unforgettable memory was when I had my birthday. In the morning, I came with full of happiness and smile on my face. I always was be the 1st comer cause I lived far from there so I should went earlier from home. When the others came one by one, I gave my hand and asked them to say "Happy b'day" to me. Even they pretended that nothing's special but I really knew that they had something to trick me. Then, I knew that they also had bought a cake for me so I asked to one of them (she always bought a cake for the birthday person) where the cake was and what it looked like. I went to the fridge and saw my cake there. All of them knew that I was quite 'crazy' enough..hahahhaa......

After teaching time was finished, like usual, we gathered in one of the room to have lunch...Until the lunch time was over, they sat still..not moving from their place to prepare something tricky....

Ooouw..I forget, the husband's owner called and spoke to me with a silly conversation. He said that it was impolite to ask the salary before the time. Cause I told to one of them (she is the cousin of the owner), that if all of them wanted to be treated, so I needed my salary at that moment. Then she called her uncle to talk with me. Honestly, it made me nervous. I thought that he was really mad with me. Then I remembered it's one of the tricky..
Hmmm.....gud trial!!!

Nobody's moving from their place to give me another tricks...so I told to them, where the cake was and I insisted to them to prepare it for me....hahahhaa......so narcissism.....
Then....I prepared the cake by myself and put the candles by myself too...hahahahaha......

It's the crucial thing...
When I went to home (it's already 4 o'clock in the afternoon and some of them had gone home), I found my car lost. There wasn't my car in the park area....hah!!
I shocked and all of them pretend looking for my car...even they were looking under the other car. How come my car was under the car??!!!
What a silly action!
Then they laughed hardy to see my pale and shocked face.....it's really a shocking day!!
They were really success made me shocked at my birthday...

6th month since I came, we had a new school year again and the teachers were increased. And many stories came day by days. It's really hard to forget those memories.

13th March, it's Friday...and it's time for me to say good bye....
It's really hard time to say good bye to children....I cried a lot in front of them and sing Goodbye Song with tears...gonna miss u all, children.....
and it's really hard time too to say goodbye to staffs.....I hugged them one by one with cried.....bye-bye friends.....maybe times go flies but our memories always be in my heart......hix..hix......


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

12:38 AM

6th months' menu

6th months' menu
Menu Fritz di awal MPASI-nya

1st week (18th - 24th September)
1. Tepung beras coklat (Gasol) + Asip
2. Tepung beras merah (Gasol) + Asip
3. Kabocha + Asip

Note:
- ketiga makanan itu di ulang lagi dan hasilnya Fritz suka dan lahap

2nd & 3rd week (25th September- 4th October )
Morning : puree buah (jeruk, apel, pepaya, pisang)
Afternoon : Tepung beras coklat & merah (Gasol) + puree sayur (kabocha, zuchini, tomat) + Asip
Note:
- paling suka minum jeruk
- juga suka dengan Gasol
- kurang suka Gasol dicampur2 dengan puree sayur
- GTM...gak gitu suka...
- I'm still finding and searching his fav


4th & 5th week (5th -18th October)
Morning : combine 2 fruits with separate bowl
Puree buah (jeruk, pepaya, pir, apel)


Afternoon :
Tepung beras coklat & merah (Gasol) + Asip & puree sayur (kabocha, zuchini) (2 separate bowl)
Tepung kacang hijau (Gasol) + Asip
Tepung Pisang (Gasol) + Asip
Puree Kentang + Asip

Note:
- masih encer penyajiannya, sudah coba dikentalin tapi Fritz gak doyan
- favorite tetep yang pertama, tiga ke bawah Fritz hanya coba sekali karena udah nunjukkin muka gak suka....hix...
- lebih suka disajikan dengan mangkuk terpisah.
- makannya sudah mulai lahap
- a little bit know what he likes

6th week (19th - 24th October)
Morning: bubur susu
Tepung kacang ijo + Asip
Tepung pisang + Asip


Noon: buah
1. Jeruk + Pepaya + Pir
2. Jeruk + Alpukat
3. Jeruk + Pepaya
4. Pir + Pepaya


Afternoon: Bubur kaldu
Tepung beras coklat/merah + kaldu ceker ayam + keju


Note:
- in the morning, he just likes the green bean.
- tepung pisang setelah beberapa minggu absen, dicoba lagi malah mau
- perkenalan Alpukat dan untungnya suka
- harus makan pepaya supaya pupnya lancar tiap hari
- makan buah paling lahap dibandingkan yang lainnya
- bubur kaldu gak seberapa suka
- minggu ini GTM....sediihhh....uda dibuatin tapi malah gak dimakan abis.....dan makin hari makin jelas GTMnya....semoga minggu depan semangat lagi!!!!

t
hese are the grains
brown rice grains, red rice grains, green bean grains, banana grains








banana porridge + Asip










kaldu ceker ayam, keju Kraft, tepung beras merah, kabocha









Plain red rice porridge







added with cheese







added with breast milk








tadaaaa.....

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

1:02 AM

Uncle Donald is coming to town....

Uncle Donald is coming to town....
Sunday, 11th October 2009
Taman Anggrek Mall
Lunch time @ Food Court


Uncle Don is one of daddy's best friend since high school. They hadn't met each other for almost a year. Uncle Don with his wife had stayed in Singapore since 2005 after they got married in Jakarta.

Last week, he went back to Jakarta to see his beloved son and wife. His son was in Jakarta and his wife just resigned from her work at Singapore. Uncle Don himself were busy with his job at Kuala Lumpur and he took a weekend (3 days only) visiting his son that he missed for almost a month.

So here we were....we're at food court hall of Taman Anggrek Mall seeing this family. Rafael and Fritz were together again, also with their dads....
no more talks, just pictures talk what they were doing at that moment....what kinda cute babies......

After this meeting, Uncle Don should fly again to KL to get back to routines on Monday.....and wait for 2 weeks to see his son and wife gathering in KL...

Monday, October 19, 2009

11:12 PM

She is better than yesterday....

She is better than yesterday....
Maids...you never can predict their work!

It was such a suck another story again bout maid in my family and was really bad experience in my life having this kind of maid...

My mom tried to get a new maid again after Eid Mubarak this year. She took it from the maid's institution which must pay the registration fee for 800.000 rupiah to get this maid. Actually, I didn't agree to get a maid from this kind of institution. Mostly, they were problems..

Okay, she got it...and went home with the new maid.
She was young, just passed her 17 years old this July and quite calm (1st impression..)
She had a mobile phone (hmmm....)
She had a year experience working with a big family who had 8 persons inside and only had a maid to do all the chores (and it was her)

She did a good job at that day. She cleaned all the rooms, all the things, all the order jobs...
She showed a good impression for my mom.

Monday was began with black out. As we knew that nothing we could do, right?? So she was...
Staying in her room and playing with her own mobile. Or sitting in the stepladder with the ear phone and enjoying the music... really didn't do anything...
Actually she could sweep or mop or tidy the other things that didn't need any light.

I made a teen talk with her. I tried to give her a direction how the rule's here. Phone only when you really needed and didn't bring the phone all the time. And the others talk such as her previous work or bout the boy that she had.

Tuesday was coming and she ignored the rules.
She went up to iron the clothes in the morning and had a phone from someone. When I asked to stop the phone, she answered me that she called but still ironing...hmmm what a reason...
I warned for the 1st time a low tone...

Days by days....she became lazy and lazy....
With ironing reason, she brought her phone to send message. So no wonder, she enjoyed ironing and never ending her works cause busy with the messages.
Just worked if we asked to do.
Always brought the phone with or without me knew...such as when she went to the market...

A week after,
I asked to clean up my room. I and my hubby put the playpen inside the room and needed her help to sweep and mop the floor. Suddenly, my hubby opened his wallet and found that his money was lost after she done. He was so curious how fast she took his money inside the wallet.
We asked her to go to the market to buy eggs, the other side, we checked her room and nothing!
Then, my hubby put his suspicious in her jeans that she wore when she cleaned my room.

Monday again...and it was black out....again...
Again, she didn't want to do anything...just relax....times to enjoy the life...
It's sound happily for her that we wanted to go somewhere to get air.
I could put on her mind, she must use all her alone time to call her boys or looked for another thing to be grabbed.

Honestly, after that moment, I was really hardly to relax my mind and still be nice to her. Always thought anything could happen inside there. Then, I shared the story to my dad what just happened in the morning.

This morning, after came back from the market, she brought something and I caught it. Then I asked what she bought for. She told that she had repaired her mobile cause something happened with the screen. Still I asked for details, what happened with the screen, why it could be broken, and how much you should pay it. She said that she didn't know and she must pay 20 thousand rupiah for that.

My dad believed that she took my hubby's money cause yesterday she told to my dad that she didn't have any money anymore. So it was very impossible that she could pay for the repairs.

Next morning, I told to my hubby that I still couldn't relax my mind. I was still thinking bout her. My hubby had a bad feeling bout her too. He told that she needed to be suspect.
My Dad found his money on the wallet lost after he checked his wallet few minutes after he woke up. He lost 40 thousand (20 thousand and 2 @ 10 thousand). He called my mom whether she took it this morning. She said she didn't take it. He asked my bro too and nope...
So....last suspect was her!

We called her and asked her carefully with a nice tone. Automatically, she refused it. The jails must be full booked if the thieves confessed, right? She gave her innocent face and tried to believe us with that kind of face. She showed us too how she was felt disappointed by putting her hand on her chest. It said that "I'm telling the truth but nobody believe me...huh..."

Okay the nice tone was finished, now the second way...
How could we believe you?
If you still didn't want to admit what you did, so....I must check all your room!!
So I checked all her stuffs that she wrapped it nicely cause she wanted to run away that night with her boy while my mom was on the phone with her, checking her spending money.
She followed me to her room and I asked her to still sit on the floor next to my dad.
And you know what I've gotten...
Taaaa.........daaaaa.............
51 thousand rupiah on her jeans' pocket!!!
Then I threw all the money on her face...what's this?!!!!!

My mom really got angry on the phone with her and I could imagine what she did if she was at home. She must slap her absolutely!
Then she admitted that she took my dad's money that morning, but she still refused taking my hubby's money.
My dad told her if you still refused, we would put you on the police station.

I still checked all her things, she really was a thief. She could know the complete address of my house from my dad's ID card that she took secretly. She took my old T-shirt that I put on the maid room to be worn for every maid, but not to be owned. She also took an unused ruler. That wasn't your ruler! And the simple thing was she took my hubby "Adem Sari"....gosh!! and she told that she bought it....hmmm....really a big liar!!!

The finishing touched...
Finally she admitted that she took my hubby's money...from wallet in the middle of sweeping and mopping time when I asked her on Sunday morning while every body was in the living room next to my room.....really such a good thief...
could you imagine how fast she was.....

I took her only-favorite-one-mobile phone as a compensation. I read all her messages and she was really such a bitch.. she had 3 boy friends and few more flirting boys....gosh...and she really wanted to run away that night with one of the boy and wanna sleep together with him.
When we went out the day before, she always was on the phone with many boys...I found it on her dialed calls and received calls.....ck...ck...ck..........how's her parents feeling???

That day, we went to the institution again to change with the new one.
When I arrived, I was angry to the administrator there straightly. Everyone heard how angry I was with loud voice. I really disappointed with them, how come they employed the thief as well as a bitch??
Only a week in my house, she could grab more than 100 thousand rupiah inside the wallet and chit chat with lots of boys during her work time....

I asked for the new one which willing to work hard, honest and having no mobile phone. The admin referenced an almost-40th-years-lady which had lots of experience in handling elderly and agreed with my requirements.
Now, it almost a week when I took her from the institution and she really showed her eagerness in working....for a moment, I'm proud with her statement..
At least, she is better than yesterday....
Hopefully, she can work as well as she promises to me and to my family


God bless us....

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

6:16 AM

maid...oh...maid

maid...oh...maid
Talking about maid's behaviors never end up and unpredictable...

Since Fritz born, my family had changed maids for almost 3 times in 6 months only...*sigh*
Many problems bout parenting make me feel curious and confuse as well but this maid problem was the worst thing to be confused.

Maid in my family is doing the chores such as sweeping, mopping, washing clothes & dishes, ironing and helping a little hand for my 9 years-
stroke dad and never I asked to help me in taking care of my baby.

It started when I had my maternity leave days. I should stand by at home every day before the delivery time came. It mean that I was be there 7 x 24 hours to watch the maid's work. I'm the perfectionist person, I admitted. For me if you do something, you should do it correctly and neatly. Maids never ever like the perfectionist one....right??

First maid
After few weeks Fritz born, suddenly in the day of election, she ran away from home in the early morning. She had worked for us almost 6 months after the Eid Mubarak. She ever asked to be quit few days before Fritz born but I told her to wait till the Eid Mubarak this year. Then, she showed her laziness in doing all her chores with unhappy face wishing that we got angry to her and asked her to quit at that time...She made purposely mistake, or purposely forget the routines.

As you know, few weeks after delivery days, as a new mom with new routines made me getting headache. Without someone help me taking care of my baby and having baby blues also, sometimes my perfectionist mood came out and burst out to this maid. Maybe she couldn't face it anymore, she ran away and called my dad to send her salary. Who did you think you were???

The problem was the phone. She bought a new mobile phone and got a chit chat with friends or maybe boys that made her couldn't concentrate in doing the chores. She still young, under 20s, and you know, still had young spirit to flirt with boys or just chit chat with friends....teenager....

Second maid
We got her from maid's institution and she was early 30s. She got a mobile phone...again....
This maid only worked almost 3 months. Actually, she could cook and it really helped me. Before, she worked in an elite estate and no wondered that she had a high style. She was early 30s but her style looked like a teen who liked to listen Agnes Monica's song and had a new edition music mobile phone.

Every noon she got a phone and chit chat when doing the ironing....cool.....
My dad asked who had a call coz he listened a whisper voice...then she said it was me....I heard that then I complained to her....She's motionless...

She really didn't enjoy her work coz should take care of my dad. Means that she couldn't have any leisure time to listen Agnes Monica's song. Again, she asked to quit with lots of fake reasons such as her dad was sick (her dad is only having an eye sore, you can buy the medicine in the nearby drugstore, rite??), her husband was waiting for him (she was a widow, how come her hubby wait her??) and another bla..bla.. reasons to escape from my house....*sigh*

Then, she got lazy day by day and only stayed in her room after doing her routine chores. If my dad needed her help so he needed her permission whether she wanted to help him or not..."were you busy?"
Her answers, "I'm doing this..." or "I'm still doing this.." or "I forget to do this" looked like she was really really busy and having no time to help my dad.

After almost 3 months, she asked to quit...again in the day of election...
So...byebye??
Not yet...
All my family, included me, were really burst out with her behavior when she asked to quit at that time.
So we took this chance to blow out our anger that we really unsatisfied with her work.
She ever mocked my dad's mobile phone and mocked her maid's room that it was too small compare with her previous job...so why didn't you come back there??? (maybe something happen occurs in her previous one, so the owner didn't want to hire this lazy lady)
FYI, she always asked to quit every month in the same date (12) coz it was the date of having her salary....very clever hah??

Third maid
We returned the second maid with this third maid. She was quite old in the late of 40. She didn't have any mobile phone (at the last it's revealed that she had it) and quiet energetic to handle all the chores and take care of my dad. Unluckily, she couldn't work neatly. Sometimes we should remind her many times to do neatly but that was habit, we couldn't change it....So far we were quite happy with her. She also was a quite tough to listen our anger everyday because of her little mistake but big effect..such as she forgot to turn off the water coz she was asleep.

Times went by so fast and it was the time for her to come back to her hometown for Eid Mubarak. She promised that she would come back. The fact, till the time is through, she didn't come back and very difficult to contact her. Again.....we were angry with maid but this time the maid was escape from our anger.....*sigh*
Lucky you, mbak'e.....


Tuesday, October 13, 2009

3:16 PM

Photo Studio

Photo Studio
13th September 2009
@Rikari Photography


All the Moms in the world (I believe) always capture all their babies cute faces and other cute things (first meal, first step, first run or even first clap) in the pictures using camera....
Me...also!
Trying to get all the best moments that can't be happened again in the future.
Always put the camera nearby and reachable...then get the captures....
Buuuuut....I wanna have nice pictures and I choose to have it in the studio..

After searching for few months through my best friend thing (internet of course!!!), I found a best captures-cheap-great quality studio for my baby, Fritz...
As you know, every single Mom always (me included!) try to find the best thing for their babies and the important thing is cheap and can be bargain....agree??
Yup....

Sooo....I found this photo studio, Rikari Photgraphy.
I made an appointment and she sounded nice...unluckily, Fritz got the 3rd session which was on 3.30 in the afternoon....
Praying that he wouldn't fall asleep during the photo session....and I agreed it...

On the spot....
Fortunately, everything was going smoothly, he did the photo session for almost 20 minutes before he 'fell down' asleep....hahhahaha....
We were trying to make him smile...He was difficult to do that, surely....by doing silly things, jumping or calling his name...hah!!
Really need extra effort to do that!!

Almost a month and...ta daaaa....it was the result......