The 3 lil stooges

Ain Humaira, Luqman Hakim, Ain Maisara

Luqman is a Merdeka boy.. he was born on the 31st August 2002. What an experience giving birth to this little boy... i suffered a 10 hour labour pain which starts every 5 minutes.. fuh... but the moment i saw his face.. all the pain was gone... biasalah kan.. first baby... i didn't really know what to expect.. Luqman hakim.. the story about Luqman Hakim was narrated in the Quran... we hope he will be a smart, brilliant and a good person just like in the story..

Luqman started walking at 9 months... pretty impressive huh.. he can utter a few word here and there when he was only 1 year old... i remembered, when his sisters were still in my tummy, he can already said the word 'baby'... he got his little sisters when he was 1 year and 12 days!!.. what can i say... rezeki... what more.. it's a twin! Luqman has got two sisters when he is only a bit over 1 year! But we make sure he's got all the love that he needs as a small kid... in fact, at 1 yo he was still considered a baby...

My two lil angels were born on the 12th of September 2003. Eventhough that was my second time, it felt like a whole new experience again becoz there was two!! The labour pain prolonged for 3 hours... but the delivery was very easy.. in fact, the first twin was delivered without the help of a doctor or a nurse!.. i was suffering from the contraction when the nurse said it was already 10cm opening and that i can push a bit because the head is still high.. then she left us to call Dr Nora... so i did push a bit but once u push you just cannot hold any longer.. it was like when you have a stomach ache and you are rushing to the toilet so that you can let 'it' out... that was exactly what i feel... so my first twin got out all by herself onto the bed... luckily the bed is still in the original position (to anybody who doesn't know, when you are about to deliver, bottom half of the bed will be lowered...) Then i told my husband... "baby dah keluar.. baby dah keluar..." then the nurse came.. she doesn't believe me at first.. but then we heard a tiny little cry coming from under my blanket... hah.. there you go... then only the nurse kelamkabutly put on her glove, take my baby and shove those tubes and stuff to my baby's throat.. etc..etc...then only Dr Nora came... "What? the baby's out already???" hahahha... what an experience... the second one came out 8 minutes later...

For 1 week they didn't have any name... we did have some namelist ready but we just couldn't make up our mind.. almaklumlah twins... so we need 2 names which rhymes and have good meaning... Humaira is the name of Siti Aishah called by our Prophet .. which means kemerah-merahan (reddish). Well, humaira did look kemerah-merahan... that's why we put that name... Maisara means kesenangan.. senang hati, senang mata memandang... she did look ceria... and we want to put something light and easy at the front of their names... so we settled with Ain Humaira and Ain Maisara... If you translate them directly it would means 'Mata kemerah-merahan' and 'Mata kesenangan'.. that does not sound right, huh.. well, we actually mean Ain to be matahati, cahayamata...

So suddenly we are in the midst of having 3 babies to take care of... it was a BIG challenge for us both.. without maid.. Luqman still need attention, the other two absolutely need attention.. Came at that time is Ramadhan... Iftar was usually a chaos... plus i considered them as cerewet baby..once their eyes are open, they need someone to hold them.. otherwise.. uwaaa... so can you imagine?? but we survived...

Now they are all big boy and big girls... Luqman is already 2 and 3 mo. Humaira and Maisara are both 1 year 3 mo. They look like they are in the same age.. but of course the big brother always win... no doubt about that... and who said twins don't quarrel... that was an understatement... all those hittings, biting, pulling hair... hmm... anyway we love to see them together... Luqman also loves his sisters and he is protective too! Try picking on the twins, the big bro will be on rescue...

Their favourite tunes..

(together with their sign language)
bangun pagi
gosok gigi
cuci muka
terus mandi
pakai baju
minum susu
pergi sekolah
belajar...
yeaaa... (clap hands..)

and during meal time .. after each suap...

nyum nyum nyum nyum..
nyum nyum nyum nyum...
.. and so on.. (follow the bangun pagi punye tune...)