Archive List for August 2014

Ever since I have my Little-big-boss around, almost everyday we’ll be out having a walk or to nearby parks or tea with nearby mama friends

It’s just easier for me to look after Little-big-boss and without cleaning up and got messed up again the next minute
And of course it’s happier, healthier and much more fun for me and Little-big-boss himself

Yeah, we have to keep connected with the outside world through our sense not just through the screen




Anyway, when we were having our walk, there’s this old little cigarettes’ shop that we would stop by most of the time.

This shop is kinda unique

The uncle from this shop will always place something especially things that attract kids in front of his shop And they keep changing according to seasons and festivals

For example,

A table with some spinning tops
One of the old-time games



Kinda nostalgic to see this and heart warming to know there’s someone is trying to keep the old culture
Little-big-boss had fun with them

Kids play whatever is given, shall we let them explore before they got stick on the screen of some sort

There were colorful rubber balls in a pool of water too
Hold, roll, throw, pick the colors, any ways you wanna play it




At the same time, it was the 7th of July, the Tanabata festival
Uncle, the shop owner prepared some papers and pens there for people to write down their wishes, “tanzaku”

And we wrote down a few

Little-big-boss writing down some wishes too
He had a flu, so I wrote a wish wishing him for fast recovery



The setting for the festival



A wish for everyone 　May you all be happy always






1歳１０か月１６日
1 year 10 months 6 days old






After a month, when I came back from Malaysia, we came by this shop again

As usual, though I didn’t mention it yet, there are always some small animals displayed alongside too.
Fishes , scorpions , snakes, snails, crabs, tortoise, beetles and etc



In small aquariums and containers



The uncle here I think he likes kids to expose more to the nature, that he always talk and persuade Little-big-boss to try and touch or hold the little animals (the safe one of course!).
Little-big-boss likes to see from far, but once any of them is near him, he will move back and hide



Since he was afraid of touching any of them, the uncle let him help to feed the tortoise instead



In summer, there was a plant of Mimosa Pudica displayed over there too.
I think some of you may be quite familiar with this in your childhood
In Malay, we called it rumput malu-malu which means bashful grass
and in Japanese we called it Ojigi grass (おじぎ草) which means the bowing grass



And we have a new display this round!
“Rocks with drawings”
Creative and definitely one of an interesting activity for the kids






What even more surprising me was, the Tanabata display a month ago has turned to…

The Kappa family (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)



And there were 2 families (*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)(*゜θ゜*)
It is a tradition to water the Kappa’s head especially when it dries up faster in a hot summer day



Here’s a display of Kappa’s faces



Feeling inspired, we got the base from uncle and started drawing our own kappa



Tadah~ the Kappa pendant



Hehe
Happy summer~

1歳１１か月１３日
1 year 11 months 13 days old

Yeah, I was back in Malaysia for a 3 weeks holiday staying at my brother’s house
Yappi was with us for 4 days only, and back for work after that.



Departing from Haneda from 23:30 almost midnight..




Arriving safely and happily after 7 hours flight



It was good traveling on a night flight with a toddler  Coz they will most probably sleep through the night
Little-big-boss dozed off once he was on the plane and woke up around 1 or 2 hours before arrival

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Anyway, we have met a lot of friends.
Among them, we so happened to have one who runs a baby spa – Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
We never knew and we were very curious
I didn’t know that baby spa actually is already quite well known in Asia.. like what I’ve heard, there were already above 2000 baby spa running in China

And so, our friends, a married couple, who were so kind to have invited us for a try out with Little-big-boss



The play corner for the babies to warm up

We were like, wow.. what a luxurious space for babies..



I can say, this is Little-big-boss very first experience on a baby spa
Luckily we were taking baby swimming course back in Japan, which made him go down the water more comfortably in the spa



The Baby Spa
There were 2 big tubs (for 6 months to 3 years old) and erm..I think 2 small tubs (for baby below 6 months old).



He was happy



Yeah, very happy during the bath



While relaxing after the bath, it was time for a baby massage..



As expected, he is not used to and doesn’t like and not willing to let anyone he doesn’t know to interfere his life all this while kinda.. how can it be okay of having the staff to massage him..(→my doubt earlier)

Baby is supposed to lie down while enjoying the sensation of massaging by the professional there, but since Little-big-boss was not willing to,  we still tried a little while I hold him up..

Yeah, it didn’t work out 

I think he might thought that the staffs there were doctors 
he hates docs.. haha

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After the baby spa, we head to another friend’s place for lunch.

This friend is a Japanese who married a Malaysian-Chinese wife and stayed in Malaysia.
They opened a Japanese restaurant which specialize in FISH dishes  UOKATSU 



Happy eating food that he recognized

Well, we really really had a wonderful and fulfilling day and it was so great to have wonderful friends like them
Grateful thanks to:
Nick and Stephanie from  Hippopo Baby Spa & Wellness
Tomono-san and Winnie from UOKATSU

10 years back, there were one period of time, I used to buy my clothes and accessories from MOMOE, a fashion brand more likely for teenager girls  


I think mainly because of their style which is more to Japan’s fashion influence (street style) and the price was pretty cheap


Even their slogan is in Japanese, “あなたらしさ”, which means like “be yourself”  I’ve never been visiting this shop for years and now that I’ve upgraded my status to be a mom, at this age, and I can’t believe that I walked into this shop again  and actually shopped 

They were actually not bad at all! I mean not like for the young and only young as I remembered 



Their bags are cute


Some posing with Little-big-boss 

The blue Thai-ish top with flowery mini pants-skirt 


The blue border top 


Little-big-boss posing like an adult..


The off-shoulder sweet top with yellow polka-dot in red skirt 


The off-shoulder sweet top with yellow polka-dot in red skirt 


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