Bloody Murky Urine

Rasa bersalahla pulak after last night. He went to bed close to 1am still with about 4 more Math booklets to complete. This morning, from the moment he woke up to noon, he must have been going to the toilet like 10 times or more to urinate.

He was continuing with his Math homework when he suddenly started going to the toilet like every 3 minutes. The last couple of times I followed him and saw a tiny pinkish red/ white strand came out while he was trying to pee. He said his pee has been red since this morning and that he had a pain every time he peed in his lower tummy and his penis. His urine couple of minutes after that turned out to be murky brown/ red color.

Apa lagi, terus siap pergi Damansara Specialist Hospital... Punyala ramai... They had a full staff at the A & E trying to entertain each one of us... The waiting area was full. Sampai je kat hospital Rayyan had to go pee again. Just in case, I asked Ja to put on an XXL pull ups for Rayyan, takut tak tahan nak terkencing dalam kereta.

Got the urine test done and found bacteria, protein, and blood in his his urine. His red and white blood cell count was more than 500 units when it should have been 0 to 10. The doctor is also getting the bacteria cultured, to see what bacteria is causing this bleeding. The result of that would probably be ready within a week.

The doctor even called Dr Azizi, Rayyan's paedetrician, to see if the medication she prescribed is suitable. Dr Azizi requested the antibiotic to be Zinnat, instead of Augmentin which was initially prescribed. So it's 200mg or 8 mL of that twice a day.. And PCM syrup for the pain while peeing... Try that for 7 days, come back, test for urine again and see Dr Azizi. That's what we'll do.

Where is Rayyan now? With Ja at BookXcess... Buying more books. Besok ada birthday party for a 2-yo. Great place to buy books as gifts.

Balk je from hospital tadi Rayyan no longer needs to go pee every few minutes. I guess most of the bacteria has been flushed out. Just needs to drink more water.

Telinga Merah

Just punished Rayyan for 1-Not finishing his Kumon homework and 2-Lying to me straight in my face face everyday for the past 3 days about completing his homework.

Kumon gave him 6 Math booklets and 5 English booklets of homework that need to be spread out throughout 6 days during this CNY holidays. Kumon breaks for a week... so about 1 Math and 1 English booklets to do everyday. Each booklet theoretically should be completed within 10 minutes.

Knowing that he's not gonna be doing it everyday, I've spread the homework into 3 days for him to do. At the end of each day, I would ask him if he had finished the work I have assigned him to do. He said yes. And even asked me "you're not going to check my homework?". I said no every time. I thought, let him do the mistakes, and get the teacher to point the mistakes to him and let him correct himself. In fact, that's what Kumon is asking the parents to do.

This morning he was supposed to finish all his his homework. I asked him again this morning before we went for swimming. He said he has finished his work. Again, tonight, I asked him, and he said he has finished them.

Then, just now, I asked him to show me his Kumon bag. I checked, out of 11 booklets of homework, he only completed 2. The rest, he only did the first few pages, and the back page. In the middle semua kosong!

As I was checking each of the homework, I would jentik telinga 2-3 kali and asked to finish the homework straight away. Jumpa lagi homework yang tak siap, I called him again, jentik telinga few times, asked him to buat... jumpa lagi homework tak siap, jentik telinga lagi, suruh dia buat.... jumpa lagi homework tak siap, jentik telinga lagi, suruh dia buat... each and every time I jentik telinga dia, I told him that that was not for the homework yang tak habis, but for the lies he told me about finishing his homework.

Habis merah sebelah telinga, I jentik telinga sebelah lagi. Now both ears are red as he's currently trying to finish all his homework by tonight, or else he can't go to bed.

Cruel? Yes, if the reason is solely for not doing his homework. But for lying - No!

Breastfeeding

I always wanted all my kids to breastfeed as long as possible and wasn't quite successful with Rayyan when he was a baby... Ja only managed to breastfeed him for up to 4 months kot... itu pun campur dengan formula since day 1 since demand overpowers supply :)

Now, with Rayhana, I made sure that Ja breastfeeds her from Day 1.... and guess what... now it's almost Day 800 and she still breastfeeds! Although not exclusively, but maaan... I'm proud but sometimes worried that she may not wanna stop! hehe

World Health Organization (WHO) states that the average breastfeeding around the world is 4.2 years (wow.. which country breastfeeds their kids more than 4 years?) and that they encourage every baby to be breastfed up to 2 years.

Thankfully, for Rayhana, she only requests for the boobs when both she and Ja are on the bed...

Sometimes, I would ask Rayhana.. ada susu ke? you minum air apa? air apa ada dalam t*t*k tu? She would answer... Air Ribena! hahaha and sometimes.. Air Suam!....

CNY Break

Rayyan dah start cuti CNY for 9 days... many schools only starts cuti this Wednesday... Reason? Rayyan's school has about 40-50% Chinese (3-4 years ago Malay students only made up 20% of the whole school).

Rayhana is still going to the nursery.. cuti dia start Thursday.

Rayyan still has Kumon today.. so now sebok tengah nak siapkan homework dia..

What to do during CNY break? Unfortunately I have loads of work to do... kalau nak plan apa2 pun during weekends je la.. had a swimming session last Saturday at our pool and Rayhana has managed to get on the water slide! Dah tak takut.. siap kata "Nak lagi" as soon as she got into the water.. hehe tu tengah2 wheezing tu.. hehe.. nebbed twice last week, just finished her prednisolone course, just started on the antibiotics...

Wanted to go to the pool again yesterday but it rained like almost 24 hours yesterday.. so the next plan is to have another pool session this Thursday, on the CNY day itself.

"Homeschooling" Rayyan

When I was in primary school zaman tok kadok dulu we have never heard such thing as going to sekolah agama after the sekolah kebangsaan, or sekolah agama dulu and sekolah kebangsaan in the afternoon, etc.. Only few years later that the concept was beginning to be popular among the Muslims in Malaysia ni..

Ada gak family members yang pressured us to send Rayyan to sekolah agama. Rayyan already has Kumon on Mondays and Thursdays. Taekwondo on Thursdays, Drama & Speech class on Tuesdays, Piano on Fridays.. and clearly sekolah agama is definitely gonna be taxing to this little kid. Then, I looked into these family members' reasons why would someone send the kids to sekolah agama.. they gave the reason senang.. nak belajar mengaji and belajar sembahyang...

Of course sekolah agama goes beyond just ajar mengaji and sembahyang.. but these two are the most basic that one needs to take care of.

So, one alternative way I thought.. well.. baik aku ajar sendiri hehe..

Since the first day of school on January 3, 2011, maka bermulalah sesi "homeschooling" untuk mengajar sembahyang and mengaji by yours truly.. hehe.. session starts with sembahyang Maghrib together (not berjemaah, just side by side for now), then mengaji for about 30-60 mins, pastu terus sembahyang Isyak.

Bila time sembahyang, every single bacaan I'll make it loud and clear for him to follow.. and alhamdulillah, over time, I can see his articulations have improved tremendously by just listening and self-correcting..

I use the Iqra' book he used at Genius Aulad for mengaji. Masa kat Genius Aulad, the whole two years he was there, the teachers could only get him up to book 2.. few pages shy of completing book 2 for him to proceed to book 3.

With me, Rayyan now has progressed well that it only took him 3 weeks to cover all that he learned over the 2 years at Genius Aulad. Probably by tomorrow he's going to Book 3 of the 6 Iqra' books.

Of coursela.. perangai dia has to be tolerated dengan kesabaran yang mendalam... I now know why he could not progress faster than the rest of the kids in his class at Genius Aulad (some had already went up to book 5, book 6, etc...).

So, I put on the "Cikgu Singa" cap.. haha you mess with me, you're gonna get it!

Alhamdulillah, despite the growls, roars, sebatan2 manja dengan kayu lidi kat tangan dia, he is still interested to spend an hour with me every night, fully motivated to learn. And of course at the end of the sessions I get to kiss both his cheeks after dia salam my tangan (when was the last time you ever did that to your eldest kid? especially from a dad to his son? hmm....) So I'm cherishing that moment every single night.

My initial target was for him to start the Quran by next year (coz that's when I started with the Quran). But looking at the rate he's going now, insyaAllah that could be realized as early as June this year. It would be great of he could start the Quran on his 7th birthday.. :)