Archive List for June 2012

Little-big-boss sure is growing fast

From a bean-like baby  forming into a human-like baby day by day so rapidly   

Scan  taken 2 months ago 

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4th prenatal checkup on 3 April 2012
17 weeks 4 days
Head size: 2.1cm
Estimate size from head to bottom: 6cm 

 Doc said the size above could be 17 weeks 1 day, a lil’ bit smaller than the size it should be for 17 weeks 4 days  
This is what the scan shows~ Head has grown so much Cannot fit the whole body into one scan anymore  
*Don’t really know the one sticking out at the bottom was the baby leg or umbilical cord..

Normally on 15 weeks onward, some may get to know whether the baby’s a boy   or a girl  IF the baby is in a good position where you get a good view of it  but still usually could not be 100% sure on a scan.

And here’s mine~

4th prenatal checkup on 3 April 2012
17 weeks 4 days

Good view eh? Straight from the bottom  haha

 Doc said, “something in between the legs..might be a boy..” 
after a few more looks on the ultrasound screen, doc said again, “hmm..the more I look at it, the more to me that it’s a boy!” .. so funny when the doc describes it 
There is something sticking out in between.. 
But can’t be too sure yet.. coz that might be the umbilical cord or something still  

Though the doc, Yasu and I, all think that little-big-boss is a boy  hoho

I have a cousin sister when she was in her mom’s tummy, doc kept saying that it’s a boy and everybody was so shocked when she was born as a girl 

Things just happened 

Anyway, since on my 16 weeks 5 days (28 March 2012), I think I felt little-big-boss moving Not a strong one, so can’t be too sure.. but on this 4th checkup, saw him moved for the first time on the screen  so excited  

Since then, felt him more and more..and more~

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Spring is not just sakuras in Japan~! 

Other than a pink spring, I had a yellow spring this year too  

A yellow spring at Mother Farm (マザー牧場) in Chiba 
The official website in Japanese / English. (Japanese one has more contents)

Mother Farm is actually a sight-seeing made farm for visitors located at the top of a mountain. This place has a very charm view, very breezy, very cute farm animals, very nice 

The tickets  
Don’t know how many types do they have, but we’ve got a sheep tic and an alpaca tic~ 
Yes, they have ALPACAs in the farm  Alpaca has been very popular  in Japan these days

Pic source: http://www.motherfarm.co.jp/news/alpacameet.html
See how cute alpaca is 

This is the view from inside the farm~  Up at the mountain  

Spot the yellow part! That is the yellow spring we are gonna visit 

Before that, lunch first  
Time still at around 10:30am but we din’t wanna get stuck with the crowd at lunch time. Eat earlier avoid the traffic 

A very oily lunch, but the fried thing quite yummy with broccolini flowers 

There’s a BBQ service house there too for lunch! Big space, nice view great fun for a BBQ party if come in group 

Looking like this  not lunch time yet, so still no one around. Order food ingredients at the shop and BBQ~ easy  
kinda miss Hokkaido ..BBQ-ing so often the whole summer in the great nature  

 
 Checking the map for our yellow spring 

 The nearest spot was just down the stairs near the lunch station.

And here!  
The name of this yellow bush is Broccolini flowers (菜の花, na no hana). It’s actually a type of vegetable similar to broccoli. Tasted quite nice in the fried thing I had for lunch    

Yappi acting cool~           

Siu-siu (笑笑) two-shot time  hoho

Yappi looks like a little boy here 

First time self-taking photos’ background looking so magnificent

Walking down and up a little..

and there’s a little space with a table and bench to rest 

But somehow, while we were resting and taking some photos..
 we were also kept asking by other people to take photos for them..  busy yappi 

Totally a different view from the opposite side 
Trees still in the state of preparing to turn green 

Baby momiji (maple leaves) started to grow  so cute 

This place supposedly a farm with a lot of farm animals for people to enjoy and learning about them.. but we were here more for the flowers, trees and the tranquil~

I like farm, but prefer to visit a real farm  some place like Hokkaido  wahaha

The cow  near the entrance..

and the sheep  
to prove that we were really here at the Mother Farm 

What the farm actually looks like with all the farm animals → Click 

My new renovated blog, hoho  thanks to Yappi~ we did it together but he did all the programming stuffs~

But by importing this blog, all my previous “Facebook Likes” gone~~
Anyway, thanks everyone who LIKES before 

Because of this renovating, which I couldn’t blog for a period of time, I know I am way too late talking about the sakura season..but still, sakura was amazing.
Always just too pretty to believe that this magical moment last only for about a week 

Though I didn’t go anywhere special for a Hanami (sakura viewing, a Japanese culture) this year, everywhere was just full of sakuras blossoming 

This was taken from the hospital carpark I went   Sooooo pretty~

And this was taken at night in Shibuya, one of the most busiest city in Tokyo  Yes, sakura is as charming as ever even at night coz of it’s bright whitish pinkish petals! 

Siu-Siu (笑笑) two-shot time   
Can’t leave without some memories of us being here before, anywhere we go 

Taken somewhere by the road near a park (Mitsuike Park) that we planned to go but couldn’t find any parking.. so we ended up viewing sakuras by the road instead.. 

Love the background full of SAKURAs~ 

Sometimes feeling awkward to post all these 自慢な (self-proud?) kinda photos up.. just wanna keep as  our own  record of memories 

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Larger view of the sakuras by the roadside~  not bad eh?