Little Man's Homecoming

 

Alhamdulillah, after over one year away, Miri-born Muawiyah has finally returned home. 

It would be his first flight as a 3-year old, and admittedly we were very nervous going in. His previous flight didn't go so well, as he didn't like sitting on his own seat and insisted sharing his seat with us (a privilege he lost when his status was "upgraded" from infant to child as soon as he hit 2 years old 🤣) 

But after constantly building up the anticipation of riding an aeroplane, returning home to his toys and pep- talking him into owning is own seat, the flight turned out to be a very pleasant experience, Masha Allah. 

Even though he had to wake up at 4:00am to catch our early morning flight, he was so excited that he didn't sleep at all on the way to the airport up to the plane right itself, with uncontrollable expressions of excitement looking out through his window seat:

"Muawiyah can see the houses!"

"Look ibu! I can see a river!" 

"We are going so fast!" 

He even enjoyed the in-flight meal with surprisingly really good appetite and a short nap towards the end. 

At finally at the end of the flight, he expressed, 

"Muawiyah tak scared pun". Like a boss. 

The moment we arrived home, he was so excited at the sight of his old toys, that he was playing by himself for hours until he fell asleep in his own mess of toys. Main sampai pengsan 🤣 

Welcome back Muawiyah 😍