About Sarah and Amar again

Sarah seems to get all the attention in this blog. Amar is overshadowed by his sister's dominant character. Both have contrasting personalities. Sarah is hyper-active, attention seeking and cheeky while Amar is more relaxed, cool and independent.

This is not a behaviour assessment, but just to give you an idea what they are currently like . I believe that their attitudes may change with age. I have been observing Amar, how laidback he seems to be, compared to Sarah when she was at his age now.

Sarah was constantly jumping up and down and climbing every piece of furniture even before she could walk. Sarah is still doing her stunts and always trying to create new moves even now (read summersaults, stuntman jumps from tabletops and sofas). At Amar's current age, Sarah was already an expert at climbing up and down the stairs. Now she acts as a motivator for Amar. She encourages him to climb the stairs too. "Jom, (n)aik Aman" her fingers tergedik-gedik calling Amar to climb up. Don't worry Opah, I'm always lurking around to prevent him from climbing.

Earlier, as I was observing Amar walking back and forth the living room, I couldn't help but to feel 'sejuk hati' seeing that Amar is not that 'buas' like the Kakak.

But suddenly, he stopped by the sofa. I thought he was taking a rest but actually he intended to climb up the sofa trying to reach for his toy car. I spoke too soon!

Communication wise, Sarah is pelat. Amar just babbles. The funny thing is that they could understand each other!

They both talk to each other in a language that only both of them understand and would sometimes make Amar chuckle non-stop. Believe me, his chuckles are so contagious and can make you start chortling too.

"Adah mana adah, Aman?" Sarah asked Amar.
Amar smiled and stuck his tongue out.

Translation; "Lidah mana lidah, Amar?"



Amar loves playing peek-a-boo with his Kakak Sarah. He would hide behind a pillow, a door, anything really and plays 'Cak' with his sister. Sarah will return a monstrous 'Baaahhh, Aman' to make him jump and laugh sampai air liur meleleh soaking his top.

At times, Sarah would kacau Amar sampai nangis. I asked what she did to Amar that made him cry? Often the answer is "Sarah kiss Amar je" Probably Amar doesn't like his Kakak to smother him.

Sarah is very soft at heart too. Each time she hears Amar cries, she will say "A-kai, Amar" (Don't cry, Amar), and sometimes she hugs him and pat him on his shoulders and go "Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh" and ironically that would make Amar cry even more.

Babah and I love to pretend gigit both Sarah and Amar. [Gigit; the way kucing gigit anak dia] It's a controlled type of gigitan yang tidak akan penetrate their skin, I guarantee you. Sarah has learnt that from us. Not that we taught her, but she copycats everything we do. (*guilty to some things she xeroxed*)

This morning, Sarah put that into practice. She gigit kucing my dagu and I pretended to say that hurts very much. She hugged me and said, "ala la la Mama, a-kai"

Then, she gigit kucing Amar. He loved it!!! And cackled and snorted. Later, it was Amar's turn. The only thing was he didn't know how to gigit kucing and gave a REAL gigitan at Sarah's left arm.

Meraung si Sarah, gegar satu rumah. I know that's not funny but I still laughed so hard.

My poor kids...