#88lovelifehunt

I am so much into Diana Rikasari. I love her blog. I love her shoeline. I love her book, #88lovelife. So I decide to join this challenge, #88lovelifehunt:

Here is the result :)

Please help liking my photo above via Instagram hehehe.. Search my account @nika_yunitri or search my photo with tag #88lovelifehunt. Wish me luck, and thank you so much!

"Happiness is not always about having our wishes granted, but knowing that we have a dream and we're heading there"

#88LOVELIFE

Kids Activities

Surprisingly, there is a lot of activities that kids (even babies) can do. And I already realize it by looking back again to my Pinterest account. There is sooo many things to pin, to read, to do, related to parenting things that I have not known before. I am the last child in my family and I do not intensively relate to little children until I have my own daughter. So I am a newbie in this playing and having activities with kids.

Another thing that surprise me a lot is how western mothers are very diligent and care about their children's activity. They finds new ideas on kids activities and they are constantly write up on their own blog to share what have they already do. And, what surprised me the most is western mothers have including their religion into kids daily activities and mostly I find, they are Christian. They read the Bible verse to their child every day, tell them their prophets stories (regarding to Bible of course), and have a lot of media to teach their children about religion and God via toys and games that little children would like to do such as coloring, crafting, etc.

Another thing that I adore about western parenting is how they relate their kids into BOOKS. Yes, even since baby, they have given their children books. From books that contains only images, images with a little story to tell, until a real books. 

And then I look into myself. What has I done to my daughter (beside doing daily routine such as breastfeeding, bathing, feeding her, and buying her needs)? Am I introducing my religion in her daily activities? Am I educating her to be what I want her to be? Those questions are slapping me on the face.

And then I decided to follow what those western mothers do, to have my own daughter's activity every day. I usually do this activity at night (after my working hour) and in the weekend. Mostly I follow kids activities schedule in this link, beside the Bible related things of course. This link is like a very complete calendar: every day activity with different thing to learn every week and different theme every month. I also only utilize stuffs that I already have at home. It minimizes me not to buy a lot of things needed for support the activities. I only bought what I really really need such as:

- Coloring & crafting equipments: crayons, glue, coloring pencils, watercolors and brush. I only have used the crayons and glue.

- Some books:  one book about introducing vegetables and one book about 25 stories of Moslem Prophets.

Here they are the activities that I have tried with my daughter:

Month 1:

Theme: Creation, Adam & Eve

Gross motor: Rolling ball

Color: Red

Letters: A, B

Shape: Circle

Al-Quran: God created all things and He maintains everything (Az-Zumar:62)

Week 1 (taken from the link September - Week 1):

- Coloring house 

- Mommy dressed-up

- Baby-bottle bowling

Week 2 (taken from the link August - Week 1):

- Coloring apple

- Free-play dump and fill apple and balls

- Cut & color small apples, put apples in the floor and let your children put apples in lunch box

- Make "apple pie". On paper, make a circle (I using plate). Color it with brown and glue the small apples in top of brown circle paper.

- Rolling ball

- Coloring number 1 and 2

- Coloring letter Aa and Bb

- Read book about Adam and Eve

- Touch and play with real apples

- Sort ball by color

- Tell them: Allah made plants, grass, and dirt

Week 3 (taken from the link August - Week 2):

- Coloring bear

That's all until today.

Hope this useful for you, Mommies! 

And continue with so many other activities you can find on Pinterest! :D

HHBF

From wanting to know more about baby food, it turns out to charity. Maybe that's the sentence that describes me and my activity this two weekends. 

In the beginning, I told by a friend about Facebook group that has many discussion and knowledge about baby food. The group name is Homemade Healthy Baby Food. Every single day I open it to know what food that I will cook tomorrow for my baby. There are a lot of recipes there, divided by age of baby and it's natural cooked and very healthy. Many files and photos you can read and see. And you can have discussion with other mommies also. It's like a treasure for me ;)

And than I courage myself to a little bit active on the group. Not only searching and copy the recipes, but also posting comments or photo about the result of my cooking. After the group wall is opened on Thursday and Saturday, I also courage myself to submit recipes to the group. And happily, other mommies response my post :D

On 12/1/2014, I decided to participate in HHBF member meeting TangSel area at Taman 2 BSD. At that meeting, every member who came was bringing own food and changing it to other members. It's called "potluck". Other member's food was so beautiful and yummy. There was cupcake, pudding, bread, brownies, and so on. Maybe only my food was so plain and not colorful hehehe..

My plain macaroni schotel

Me and my baby (that has turns to toddler)

In this month, flood happens in Jakarta and around. HHBF makes a charity for helping especially baby and kids to have healthy food. And then I join the charity. Last week I made rice with chicken and carrot, with boiled egg. Yesterday I made spaghetti with the sour-sweet sauce. Those foods are then delivered to ACT Ciputat.

Rice-chicken-carrots with boiled egg and banana

The spaghetti

Cooking some of food packages is about exhausted. But inside my heart I feel happy. I am grateful that my condition is much better than those flood victims.. and alhamdulillah I can make small help for them. Hopefully in the future, my baby also understands to always try to do kindness to others. Aamiin :)

Pinterest

Eventhough it's not a new thing for some people, but actually I just already have Pinterest account a couple months ago. It's kind a little bit different than another social media like Facebook, Instagram, or Path. It gives you more interesting information to know and to apply in daily life.

I am first interested to this Pinterest when friend share their pins on Facebook. I check the web, making account and select some boards to follow. After that, I can not stop search interested things from it. From things like parenting, kitchen stuff, and kids activities. Actually, Pinterest is like dictionary of article, website, or blog. When we want to search something, just click and tarra! Many references of what we search are there on your monitor. The article is good and relatively complete, although much of them are made by overseas people. Indonesian people I think is not much as them.

But all I want to say is, why don't you try it? You can download the application too in android playstore for more easy accessibility.

Note:
My Pinterest account is nikayunitri :)