The Picture Company Membership Renewed!

One day when we passed by One Utama, Hubby saw the Membership Sales promotions at The Picture Company. So he asked me to find out what is it all about. I called up The Picture Company and got to know that they are having the 'Buy 1 Free 1' promotions in the month of August. When I got to know this deal, the month of August only left with a few days. So without delay further, I went to One Utama after work last night to renew my membership which was expired for almost a year already... Initially, we thought of renew it in November this year so that we can use it to shoot for our 2nd Baby's portraits. But since now they are having promotions, Hubby says this is a Good Buy! Hehe :) He asked me to go and renew it ~ He said we must be fair for both our children... Hurray… One Family can have portraits shoots soon ~

With this 'Buy 1 Free 1' Promotions, you can either give the 'Free 1' as a gift to your friend or extend the 'Free 1' to another year of membership for yourself. So I use this promotions for myself instead.

Membership Privileges can be read at:
http://www.picturecompany.com.my/perks.html

Annual Membership Fee:
RM280 x 30% discount (Renewal Membership discount) = RM196.00

Since I am renewal membership, so I only need to pay RM196.00 for the 2 years Membership! A very worth buy ~

A new gift from Daddy to our second baby!

It is a Blue News!

For this second pregnancy, I have quite different experience during my every monthly check-ups. The Gynae will discuss and update us on the pregnancy progress and show to us every parts of the baby during every check-up. During the last 2 check-ups, she even saved the baby pictures and short video clips in a CD instead of printed out the 4D scanned results for us. So nice and considerate of her...I was very excited when I received the CD on the spot after the scanned process. I did not have this during Kimi's time. So once I got back to office after the check-up, I immediately opened up the CD and viewed the pictures again from my laptop :)

~ Baby's progress on 11th July 2011 ~

It is a BLUE news!
Gynae informs us that our 2nd Baby is a BOY during my check-up at 15 weeks+ !!

 

~ Baby's progress on 8th August 2011 ~

My Second Pregnancy Eat and Use:

Starting from early pregnancy, my usual dry skin become even drier makes my tummy and legs very itchy. I tried a few moisturizing creams which I bought from the pharmacies in hoping that can cure the dryness and itchiness but to no avail. I very often need to scratch the skin which ends up make the skin problem worse. After spoke to a few friends on this problem, I finally decided to buy the cream that were highly recommended by them to try it out.

~ Clarins Stretch Mark Control Cream and Body Treatment Oil ~

 

This cream and oil really save my skin from the dryness and itchiness. After a week I put them on day and night, my skin really improves quite a lot. Even though there were a few days when I was too busy taking care of Kimi and forgot to apply the cream and oil, but my skin no longer feel so itchy. I no longer need to scratch my skin until I can feel the pain on my skin anymore. It is really amazing for me! I finally find a solution for my dry skin during this pregnancy.

 

~ Supplements: Vitamins, Fish Oil and Calcium Pills ~

 

Besides folic acid, I took the daily Vitamins during my early pregnancy. Starting in July during my monthly check-up at 15 weeks+, I started to take the Fish Oil and Calcium Pills as advised by the Gynae.

~ Blood Pressure Monitor ~

* I bought this Blood Pressure Monitor at a very good deal during the promotions at Watsons in June!

I told Gynae on my first pregnancy experience on high blood pressure. She asked me to get a blood pressure monitor at home so that I can monitor the blood pressure myself at home whenever I can. We find this idea very good, as I do not only rely on the reading during every time check-up to decide whether I need to be on medications or not. At least with my own monitoring at home, I no need to everyday worry whether is my blood pressure high on today or not.

Every time whenever I go for my monthly check-up, my blood pressure always seems higher than normal. Perhaps I am too excited to see my 2nd baby whenever there is a check-up. Hehe :) But when I monitor my blood pressure at home and record them down in a paper for my Gynae to see, the blood pressure is always normal reading. So as of now, no need to take any actions yet unless my home blood pressure reading is on the high side. Hope my blood pressure can be normal all the time so that I no need to be under medications.

~ This is how I look like at 22 Weeks & 5 Days ~

Besides having very bad cough for one-month long and now in the recovering stage, I am enjoying my every single day of my second pregnancy’s journey now ~

Charcoal World Steamboat

Last Saturday, we celebrated FIL’s birthday. FIL always like to eat steamboat, so we brought him to this newly opened ‘Charcoal World Steamboat’ nearby our house.

We reached there around 6p.m. and it was already a bit crowded. Luckily we were there early and got our table immediately. They opened not long ago so I never expect the business can be so good on a weekend. Hehe ~ We did not make any reservations. I think we need to wait for our seats if we were to be half an hour later reached there.

~ The Venue ~
Very spacious and windy :)

~ Our table FULL of food ~
Everything in the menu looks so tempting, so we end up order so much food! Luckily portions are not big, we manage to finish up everything!!

~ The Charcoal Steamboat ~
They have a room with workers burning the charcoal to get ready for the steamboat…
They have a few types of soup based. We ordered their speciality ‘BlackBone Chicken Broth’ for our soup base as recommended by the waitress. This soup base is RM60.00 per portion. Very delicious!!

Overall, price is reasonable for a  steamboat session of 6 persons.  he food we ordered also very fresh. FIL enjoyed the food a lot. We brought our own prawns so our total spending did not cover the prawns price. We paid a total of RM 202.10 included beverages. 

Venue: Charcoal World Steamboat
Address: PJU 6, Kompleks Bazaar Bandar Utama, Kg. Sg. Kayu Ara Damansara, 47400 PJ, Selangor
For reservation: 03-7710 0690
Opening Hours: 5pm – 2am

Note: If you plan to go on a weekend, do remember to call up to make reservations to avoid any disappointments and to save up on the waiting time.
PORK FREE restaurant.
* They only ACCEPT CASH transaction for now. No credit card service yet.
Hehe… So please do not go with empty wallets ya :)

Happy Chinese Birthday to my Son!

Kimi is 3 years old today by Chinese Lunar calendar calculation... Big boy lor!! Must be more sensible ya….

Happy 3rd Chinese Birthday to you, Son!!

We had a simple dinner at home. As it is a Chinese Birthday, so I cooked ‘Mee Suah’ and made some red eggs for Kimi.

Kimi’s Daddy bought him a piece of ‘Strawberry Ice-Cream Cake’ from Häagen-Dazs... I think Mummy wants to eat the cake more than Kimi ~ Haha :)

~ For Kimi ~

~ A small celebration at home today ~

Daddy and Mummy wish you healthy forever ~
That's our only wish now!

Macaroon Baking Workshop

After 2 times of postponing the classes, I finally can make it on the 3rd date which I have booked earlier. If I cannot make it for this time, I think my fee is going to go into the drains. So, I must make sure this round, I definitely can make it. Luckily Kimi has recovered around 80% from his sick, now left a bit of flu. So Hubby helped me to take care of him at home today, while I went for this Macaroon Baking Class as I planned since a few months ago.

I think I won’t write much here, let the photos do the writing ~

We were grouped in a Group of 4 persons. Now, it is our turns to try it out ourselves ~

I always like to bake… So I really enjoyed the class a lot! Hope that I can have more chances in the future to go for baking lessons to learn more recipes ~

~ My small achievement for today ~

The recipe to share which I learnt it from the class:
Ground almonds – 125 gms
Icing sugar – 125 gms
Egg whites – 45 gms
Sugar – 125 gms
Egg whites – 45 gms
Colouring

Method:
Mix together ground almonds and icing sugar with first egg whites and desired colour;
Make Italian meringue with sugar and second egg whites;
Fold meringue into ground almond mixture and pipe onto a sheet pan;
Bake at 150 Celsius for about 8-10 minutes.

First Trimester Prenatal Screening

Finally, I try to find some time to sit down and jot down my pregnancy journey for Baby No. 2. As I was too busy taking care of a sick toddler at home, I think I miss out a lot of this little’s one journey… So today, I try to dig out some of the memories that I can so that I can write down in my blog for me to remember the process.

Date: 10th June 2011

As explained by my Gynae during the last monthly check-up, today I had the First Trimester Prenatal Screening which is known as the Nuchal Scan. I think during Kimi’s time, I did not do this scan. So as discussed and recommended by the Gynae, after I did some reading and asked some opinions from friends on this scan, Hubby decided that I should go for it. I was told by the Gynae that this scan best to be done during the 11th to 13th weeks of pregnancy. So I did mine at my 12 weeks+ of pregnancy. I got the scan report on the spot and baby showed low risk on down syndrome. It was totally a new experience for me and Hubby. Perhaps this was our first time doing this screening, we really very impressed throughout the whole scanning process. Together with this Nuchal Scan, I did the First Trimester Blood Test as well on this day. But the down side is that, to do both the scan and the blood test together are a bit pricey. It costs us RM710.00 excluded the consultation fee.

~ Our 2nd Baby during the Third Monthly Check-Up ~

I personally prefer this Gynae more than the previous one which I had during Kimi’s time. Every time I have my check-up, she shares information with me which I did not know during my first pregnancy. I think I gain a little bit more knowledge during this second pregnancy :)

Tokyo Street at Pavilion KL

06.08.2011 - Today’s evening we decided to visit the newly opened ‘Tokyo Street’ located at Level 6, Pavilion KL. As Kimi is still having his coughs, we do not stay long there. I took some photos and see what’s inside the street, then we headed back home after dinner.

There are a few Japanese restaurants, one bakery, some local Japan’s delights and souvenirs shops, and also Daiso is in the street too. For a full list of what’s in the street, can view it at this link: Tokyo Street ~

After scouting around, I decided to try out the ‘Mochi Sweets’. I saw a long queue when I was there, so out of curiosity, I joined the crowd too :) I bought myself one Red Bean (RM3.50) and one Mango Yogurt (RM4.00) to try out.  I think perhaps I like to eat Mochi very much, that’s why I find them very delicious! There are very soft and smooth with very yummy fillings in it. Thumbs up !

Today also marks Kimi’s 23rd months’ old ~ Time flies… One more month to go before he turns 2 years old.

Kimi seems like a big boy now ~ He can now take a bread and eat on his own (but of course he cannot finish up the whole bread, munch abit then don’t want already)… But luckily, despite sick for so long, his appetite is still considered quite OK. Hope that Kimi can fully recover from all his sicknesses very soon!!

~ A little update on me…. I am currently at my Week 20 ~

Okay… a clearer view on how I look like at Week 20 of pregnancy’s journey ~ I have gone through half of the journey and another half more to go!! Can see a small tummy on me already. Very soon, I am going to meet with my baby No. 2… Waiting eagerly for the day to arrive ~