Jagung Pop Warna-warni

Belakangan ini di tempat tinggal gue lagi musim ujan sore2.

Ini cukup bikin stres, karena kalo ujan biasanya si D betteeee berattt, gagara ga bisa pergi main sepeda bareng anak2 tetangga.

Makanya saban jam tidur siangnya D, kalo langit udah mendung2, mulai deh gue ketar ketir sendiri sambil memanjatkan doa2, “Tolong supaya D masih bisa sepedaan ya Tuhan, sebentaarrrr aja… Pleeaassseee?? Pretty pleassseeee??”

Makanya, terinspirasi dari my friend dan Tot School yang dibikinnya buat anaknya, yang KUEREN ABEEZZ (maunya gue kasih link-nya di sini, but pas gue cariin kok postingan2 itu udah ilang?? *bingung* Well ntar kalo nongol lagi gue kasih link-nya ya ), di suatu hari hujan yang sendu, gue bikin lah: JAGUNG POP WARNA-WARNI.

Caranya gampang banget:

1-2 genggam jagung popcorn mentah (gue pake jagung gue yg udah tengik krn terlupakan huehehe) ditetesin bbrp tetes pewarna makanan, aduk2, trus jemur sampe kering atau diangin2 sampe kering.

Bikin beberapa warna biar menarik.

Selain belajar menyortir berdasarkan warna, sambil main numpah2in or masuk2in jagung ke wadah2 kecil and kantong2 plastik, ini bisa juga dipake buat latihan motorik halus. Caranya dengan menjumput si biji2 jagung pake pinset (minjem pinset alisnya mamaw hahaha…) atau pake sumpit (kita pake training chopstick buat anak2, yg ada sambungannya di bag atasnya itu – sowie, sumpitnya lupa difoto :P).

Tak kusangka, si D yang biasanya ga demen en cepet bosen ama kegiatan indoor, eh suka banget main2in jagung ini. Bisa anteng dia main rada lamaan (30 menitan lah) ga pake marah2, hahaha… *Mamaw ketawa senang *

Seudah rada bosen main ini, bisa juga dimodifikasi lebih lanjut: bikin kolase.

Eh kolase bukan sih ya istilahnya? Ngegambar di karton, trus si biji2 jagung (sesuai warnanya) ditempel2in ke gambar itu pake lem UHU.

Pertamanya sih si D ga suka, krn dia kesulitan nempel2in biji2 kecil itu dg rapi, plus ribet ama lemnya yg kemana2. Tapi seudah jadi mah dia hepi and bangga juga tuh ^_^

NB: Kalo Anda bingung kenapa itu matahari bisa bareng ama bintang dan ikan2, tanya aja sama rumput yang bergoyang... :)

NB2: Si D sekarang umur 4 th 4 bulan, in case you’re curious

Sekali lagi thanks to ibu Shinta Poulsen buat inspirasinya. You totally rock, girl!  b^__^d

Coretan Tanganku

Gue inget banget, waktu umur 2 taon 3 bulan, Darren kan dibawa ke klinik tumbuh kembang, krn dulu udah rada2 curiga, nih anak jangan2 hyperaktif deh. Si psikolog muda yang ngetes nyuruh si D “menggambar orang”. Gue ama suami gue melongo dengernya. Haaa?? Kaga salah tuh? Pegang pinsil aja masih amburadul, bikin lingkaran masih ga keruan bentuknya, disuruh ngegambar orang??  Si D juga bengong, dia bahkan ga gitu ngerti instruksi “menggambar orang”, ga pernah denger or dikasih ide itu soalnya hehehe…

Lambat laun keterampilan motorik halus, and entah apa laginya deh, makin berkembang (ya iyalah…) and sekarang di umur 4 taon 4 bulan, gue baru nyadar lagi, ni anak udah mahirrr ngegambar orang. Yah, walopun orang ala kadarnya lah ya, wong emak&bapaknya juga kalo disuruh ngegambar orang ya hasilnya ga jauh beda hehehe…

Cuman ada 1 keanehan kecil di gambar orang yang si D bikin.  Nih coba liat sendiri:

Gue liat itu gambar orang kok mirip kaya cicak, ada kepalanya, 2 tangan, 2 kaki plus “buntut”. Gue tanya dong:

M : D, ini apa? (Nunjuk ke kelebihan garis di tengah yang mirip ekor)

D :  Itu bulungnya, Maw…

M : Haa??

D :  *ketawa ngakak* Lucu, Maw?

M :  @.@

Trus dia bikin versi lain lagi, kali ini dilengkapi dengan rambut (berdiri2 kaya rambutnya sendiri. FYI, si D ini rada2 flamboyan deh, hobinya ngaca, ngatur rambut, dll @.@), plus ada juga jari2 tangan and kaki. Perhatiin deh jari kakinya. Awalnya dia bikin sama kaya jari tangan, mengarah ke segala arah gitu. Trus gue suruh dia liat jari kaki gue, lucunya dia nyadar kesalahan di gambarnya. Trus dia benerin deh jari2 kakinya jadi ngarah ke arah yg sama, kaya jari kaki kita:

Suatu ketika waktu gue lagi ngomel2in dia gagara sesuatu, dia terus ngibrit, ambil spidol and coret2 di white board:

D :  Ini mamaw dapet “ugly face” krn mamaw malah2 telus. Ini udah 2 ya maw. Kalo mamaw dapet 1 lagi nanti mamaw D hukum engga boleh nonton 2 hali!

M :  :-S

Excellent!

How time flies.

I still remember when I was entering my 3rd trimester of pregnancy with Darren, when I had to be admitted to the hospital because I kept having premature contractions.
Hubby and I were SO WORRIED! We prayed and prayed, and so did the rest of the hospital complex (we were living in a missionary hospital complex in West Borneo, and were both working in that hospital). With every single day that passed by, we were grateful because Darren got to spend another day where he belonged, in Mommy’s belly. By God’s grace, Darren was born full term, healthy and perfect ^___^

Today, Darren’s a healthy, happy, super active, 18 months old toddler.
He excels in many areas: physical development, language skills, motoric skills.
He runs around, fully toilet trained, speaking a vocabulary of probably around 400 words (of course I’m not counting, that’s just a rough estimation. I’m guessing that amount because some 80 of which was animal vocabulary, probably another 80 was vegetables and flowers, maybe another 50 was names of relatives, friends, those in Sunday School, and the rest would be enough for his daily conversation words). He’s using sentences of 3 to 4 words, although still without preposition yet. For example: “Papaw... work... (to earn) money... (for) Darren... (to buy) milk...” (in Bahasa)
Or he’d tell you a story, his current favorite is a Bible story of Jesus calming the stormy sea: “[the disciples] ATUT... [takut / fear] ANGUN.. ANGUN [mimicking their waking Jesus up]...,” he says, and now with his arms stretched out, “IAM... [diam! / silent!] NANGLAH! [tenanglah / calm down!]”
He mostly does it without being asked. Sometimes when he almost falls asleep, he would chatter and babble up a series of words like those.

He also counts from 1 to 10, although many times he does it in 2 series: 1 to 3 or 5, and after a few seconds, continuing to 10.
He knows colors, except yellow and orange. His never mistaken colors are: GREY and BROWN (weird, isn’t it?).
He sings -as in completing words and sentences of the lyrics when we sing for him- of MANY Sunday School songs along with the gesture for each song.

It’s just too amazing to watch a child grow, especially mindwise. I remember Darren’s mind still being a bit “empty,” oblivious to our speeches just a few months ago.
I wonder how he got the creativity of inventing “GROWTH”, from a single embryo into a baby, a child, and further on, an adult human being.
Our Creator’s TOTALLY AWESOME, isn’t He?