Saw cradles in Lalaport last weekend so we somehow have some idea already on the price range. Online shopping though, is still cheaper. Amazon has the swing varieties to boot.
From Rakuten’s global page. It’s for the Japanese household so more compact style.
With all the choices, I do hope we get to buy the best for baby, at a reasonable price of course.
Just like during wedding preps, I’ve decided to post here pegs for baby stuff that we like, for our (very near future) reference when we actually buy already. And yes, we probably really need to buy within the next month or so.
Diaper bags!
all photos were from Amazon.com where we probably are going to make our purchase for these bags since so far I haven’t seen a diaper bag that I like in the malls. Saw one before in Greenbelt in Manila but alas we didn’t buy it – a reminder to really buy what you wanted to buy when overseas)
I love this Coach messenger diaper bag. But it’s pink so Hubs may have slight hesitations in carrying it. 😀
This Timi and Leslie tag-a-long Farah bag is pretty as well! And it’s blue so Hubs won’t have hesitations in carrying it. It has lots of compartments too for baby’s needs.
But this JJ Cole diaper bag is both our favorite so far. And it has the color/theme that I’ve been planning for baby.
Think. Think.
We’re almost 99% sure we’re having a girl. But I still had fun answering Parents Magazine’s collection of old wives tales to predict baby’s gender.
Surprisingly though, the old wives tales were consistent with our OB’s findings! Scored 14 for girl and 7 for boy. Guess I can really splurge now on girly colours. 😀
Hi Baby. Your Obachan visited us during the weekend and very thoughtfully first went to the Ward office last Friday to inquire further of the benefits and help the government now offers to pregnant moms.
Of course we all went together to the maternity clinic the following day. It was nice that your Obachan can also see you directly from the monitor. And oh did we see you! Your daddy was so happy. Because it seems his wishes about you are coming true: you’re a girl (!) and you have such prominent eyes! It’s really big baby. And, it seems his other wish, that you take after me, is also coming true – you look like me baby. But I’m hoping it’s still too early to say. I’m still hoping though you’d look like your dad, girl version. 🙂
Mommy have to take iron supplement from now though. No wonder recently, mommy gets tired easily and on two occasions almost fainted. But everything’s fine now. The important thing is you’re healthy. I’m sorry I took too much Vitamin C last Thursday and Friday. I was afraid I’d get the virus that seems to be circulating last week in the office. And up until that time, i haven’t read yet of the negative impact it will have on you. Thankfully, I read about limiting Vitamin C friday night so it was so timely to ask the doctor the following day. True enough, mega doses of Vit C is not allowed. We hope you’re ok baby.
After the OB visit, we went to Lalaport to seriously window shop for baby stuff on several baby shops there although of course the main intent was Akachan Honpo.
Supposedly, it was just window shopping at first. But, well, your excited Mom and Dad just weren’t able to control ourselves from purchasing needed stuff. Thankfully your Obachan was there to stop us from buying what shouldn’t be bought yet at the moment haha.
Still though, we weren’t able to stop your very excited Daddy from purchasing these (expensive) gadgets:
The one on the left is a stethoscope, so that we can hear you move around, and hope to hear your heartbeat as well. See the ribbon on the cover? It says the Emperor’s family also use this gadget for their babies. As your Obachan has pointed out, you’re also the princess in the noble house of Yuasa. 🙂
The one on the left is a prega-phone, which we can supposedly use to wholly transmit our voice to you. Here’s your dad assembling his gadget.
Your dad looks so cute as he talks to you with it. I sang to you earlier using it and oh how strongly you kicked! I just hope you liked my singing because it seems that you kick a lot when my lying position in bed is not good haha.
Found the perfect stroller for you! We still didn’t buy it yet though.
Look at how part of the flap can be raised during sunny days. Isn’t the design just pretty?
We finally found the red version of the baby carrier I’ve been seeing around. You’d look even cuter with red. 🙂
Would you like this crib?
This cutie Pooh bear futon would probably be very comfortable.
And since we can’t put up a hammock in our house (all your uncles and your mom as well and your cousins besides grew up in a hammock), we have to buy you a rocker.
These are nice to have but we saw in a magazine that we can rent these out. I’m sure you wouldn’t mind if we just rent these and not buy.
All these, we didn’t buy yet Baby. But we did buy you new inner wear and a wrap! Aren’t they cute? 😀
And oh, since we’d probably be in Akachan Honpo a lot for your stuff, we applied for membership. They gave us this starter set.
With lots of freebies! 🙂
So excited for you Baby. 🙂
I just needed to update this blog once a month but even at that I’ve remiss in updating it. So while we wait for my turn here in the OB (one could now understand why I’ve been pretty neglecting this site the past couple months),I figured it’d be better updating this blog than browsing either Facebook and Twitter.
My last post was back in February. So where were we in March for my goodfoodhunt?
March is a special month for me. It’s my birthday month after all. 🙂 So to celebrate, Hubs and I and a couple of my friends tried one of Ukai’s branches – Azamino Ukai-Tei in Yokohama.
The place was a Dutch guest house in the Meiji era. I just love the house’ charming facade.
It was already a bit late when we settled when to celebrate hence, having had reserved only a week before the supposed lunch, the private rooms weren’t available anymore. Nevertheless, we still had our own chef to grill our food in front of us.
Simple yet elegant setting.
Ukai is famous for their steaks cut from the famous Japanese black cows hence, even when I don’t eat beef, we ordered the Â¥8400yen set course with grilled beef on it. My stomach can’t digest regular beef but it sure can digest those oh-so-tender Japanese beef! 🙂
So, for starters.
I’ve no doubt of the freshness of the fish they serve but as I’m expecting, reading all my pregnancy books and references had me so paranoid on eating raw fish.
So whilst my hubs and friends had raw marinated snapper,
I had grilled sea bass.
Each one of us were quite happy with what was served us.
Next up, king crab soup in milk. So creamy. Yummy.
I’m not sure now what our facial expressions were when we saw what the chef was about to grill. But I’m pretty sure our expectations were quite low.
Young bamboo shoots.
Tada! Young bamboo shoots steamed in sparkling water and soy sauce.
If truth be told, it-was-surprisingly-really-delicious! Tasted like succulent, sweet Japanese sweet corn (yes, the redundancy is required). This is actually our group’s collective favorite – next to the beef which was up next.
Those small slices on the side are actually prized beef fat.
Sans service charge and tax, our course cost 8400yen for each of us. Yet we have to share this slab of beef. That’s-how-expensive-Japanese-beef-is.
My portion.
Who would have thought that the description “melts in your mouth” would ever be connected with beef?! But unanimously, we all agreed that this is so. It was just so good. And by the way, that toasted garlic by the side is the best garlic I’ve ever had.
And I mentioned prized beef fat earlier, right? If the meat earlier was really excellent, I’d say having these few slices sort of made me forget who I was with for a few minutes. There was just my tongue and the beef fat in the whole wide world. Nothing else existed.
We had a Japanese course. So the rice and miso came last. Garlic fried rice (probably the most oil-less fried rice we’ve ever had), side dishes and miso soup.
Lovely miso soup bowl depicting a weeping sakura.
Dessert was served on the second floor for a more relaxed atmosphere.
Over bottomless coffee and tea.
Satiated. Ukai Tei was also very thoughtful in giving me, the birthday celebrant, three red roses. Each one of us also have a commemorative card with our group photo on it, with mine having birthday greetings.
Ah, excellent food, excellent place, excellent service.
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Azamino Ukai Tei
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Lunch/ ￥6,830･￥8,400
Dinner Course/ ï¿¥10,500 – ï¿¥16,800
6-5-2 Tsukimino, Yamato, Kanagawa
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http://www.ukai.co.jp/english/yokohama/index.html