Category: From Our Socmed

Selected posts from Ega and Aisar’s social medias

Arus Balik versi Midwest

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#ea5512 Laporan puncak arus balik dari jalur pantura Amrik: Padat merayap, Pemirsa!!! Seriusan lho.. orang-orang di Amrik minggu ini emang pada banyak yang ambil cuti seminggu dan mudik karena hari ada libur Independence Day dan summer vacation-nya anak-anak sekolahan. Beberapa muslim yang kami tahu juga memanfaatkan moment ini untuk liburan hari raya. Sementara itu, kami yang berhalangan lebaran di kampung tahun ini, memilih untuk merayakan lebaran di tanah kelahiran Musa, mudiknya ke Ann Arbor aja.. cuma 40 menit dari rumah, disusul kemudian di hari kedua lebaran liburan ke metropolitan terdekat, Chicago, yang hanya 4 jam by car. Loooove the city! Kotanya nggak serame New York atau Jakarta, tapi udah lengkap apa aja ada, daaan masih lumayan bersih. *padahal sebenernya lagi ada perlu sama visa* Ini cerita mudikku.. Mana ceritamu? 😀
Posted by Ega Dioni Putri via Facebook

How 1 Year Old Meal Time Looks Like

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Musa’s mealtime look 1 year ++

Keukeuh pake sendok / garpu, mau balik piring, ngunyah kebanyakan (“molo-molo” orang Jawa bilang), buang-buang makanan adalah sebagian potret kekinian Musa saat makan.

It’s almost a month since my last photo for this album. If you see Musa’s meals pics before, you may think he’s an easy baby in eating. Now, Musa has been a toddler, entering period when he’s naturally to be a picky eater. Table foods with salt and sugar (yey, finally!) can’t make he eats more than his baby foods. He still prefers to eat plain fruits or veggies instead of yummy-crunchy-fascinating fried chicken a la KFC.

We have more challenges for sure, but we don’t want to bring down his self-regulate sense that has been built so far. We simply give up the foods to give to him when he doesn’t want to eat.

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Ramadan Prep a la Cooking Mama

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#ea5512 #fridge and #freezer deep cleaning to welcome our super special guest: #Ramadan2016 – Got three foods cooked (and still counting), several fresh veggies chopped, and some store-brought frozen produces for emergency sahoor (meal before fasting) and iftar (meal after fasting). The freezer has not too much space anymore to store the fresh meat and seafood we just shopped yesterday.. 😅😅 Hope Allah makes easy for us to change sleep cycle a lil bit, fill the day and night with more worships and good deeds, do fasting in heated days, and control our temper or any kind of negativity. Aamiin. #mealpreparation #welcomingramadhan #welcomeholyspirit #helloramadan #sayinshaaallah #deepcleaning #ramadanpreparation #ramadanprep
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When the Library Made Us Upset..

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My heart was breaking and I felt so sorry to Musa this morning. There was an interesting event in the library we’re used to go that’s only available this summer: Play and Learn for Age 1-3 with experts invited. Musa had found his toy and played with other kids for few minutes before we were told about signing up and not allowed to join them at all because we missed to register T_T. The coordinator said the program has been full for all weeks with no clue how many kids they want to keep and why we can’t ask to be waiting list. There was a participant leaving earlier yet we were not offered to go in -_-.

I was so upset. We are loyal participant of library’s story time every week and I looked forward to join this program since a month ago. Recent weeks I was so busy with trips plus events and didn’t pay attention to event details. However, I always kept in mind that I would have event on June, 3. See my second photo! That is the ONLY publication I know about this event. I put it on my working table and saw it every day, but the information “registration is required” was failed to catch my focus. It’s too little between long text, huh? Some other mommies looked misguide too.

Lesson learned:
– Read information carefully
– Don’t be a procastinator. If you have read an instruction, there’s usually a time limit to follow it, so just do immediately
– I wish I could design better advertisement than this so people don’t miss the important thing to do. Hahahaha

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Flint Water Crisis: Blood Draw for Checking Lead

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Welldone!

Musa had taken #blooddraw to check #leadcontamination in the #tapwater we drink. He drinks nursery water with fluoride added, but probably his pediatrician just wanted to make sure that he’s fine. Look at this happy face after a hand poke. He’s such a brave little guy. The lab staff needed to search for best venous twice in both hands, but she had no clue and asked me instead, “Did he drink?” she said we had to make him well hydrated, then called her senior, the senior said “Nothing greatest, but let’s try” and they forced to inject the needle, got no blood drawed at first and Musa had started crying, but finally they did it, brought about two tubs of bloods. #musaromas only cried mildly (like his cry everybody out there knows) then laughed immediately. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #toddlerlife #1y6d #MLabs #UofMHospital #labtest #flintwatercrisis #handpoke

Musa hari ini diambil darahnya untuk mengecek kandungan timbal dari air minum (di sini air kran bisa diminum). Jadi ceritanya di daerah #Flint, #Michigan lagi ada kasus air tercemar timbal gitu karena kesalahan manajemen (pipanya udah jadul n karatan bikin logam berat larut dalam air.. Yaiks, kan?) yang mana hal ini bisa mengganggu kesehatan. Sebetulnya Musa minumnya dari air mineral khusus bayi, tapi dokternya meresepkan untuk #cekdarah mungkin untuk memastikan aja apakah dia aman. Agak susah cari pembuluh darah yang pas untuk disuntik tadi. Staf labnya bolak-balik meraba tangan kanan, kiri, kanan, kiri lagi, terus malah nanya apakah Musa udah minum cukup sebelumnya, sampai akhirnya dia manggil seniornya. Senior yang rambutnya udah putih semua ini juga sama nggak langsung dapet, katanya nggak ada yang paling oke, tapi coba aja deh. Diambillah dua tabung darah dan Musa cuma nangis bentar, nangis khas ala dia yang orang pada tahu nggak heboh, lalu ketawa-ketiwi :))

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[Update May 17]

We got the result of his blood draw. Thanks, Allah, everything is okay. We may continue to give him nursery water with fluoride (next time by storing in refrigerator as instruction in the label.. we were wrong all this time) and sometimes filtered tap water like what we do now.