Japan pa more!

Has it been more than a month since I updated my blog?? Touched naman ako that I've been reading comments and dms asking me when will I post again. So dahil napressure na talaga ako *(chos!), I feel like I owe everyone a post like this. I'd like to share our recent Japan slash holiday trip. 

We're really not the traveling type of family. If I can remember our last trip (before this) was US and Hongkong, ten years ago. Ang tagal na diba? So I'm quite surprised that nanay and tatay decided to celebrate christmas and new year. I think the main reason is, we missed Meng so much because we did not get to see her often unlike before. Thank God for holidays that she had a break from all her work and spend time with the whole family. Plus I'm so proud of my little Matti because he survived the winter weather in Japan in such a young age!(and when I say young, I mean 3 months old!)

One word to describe our trip? Shopping! We never visited a temple and spent the whole trip to go to outlets, shopping districts, designer stores (window shopping lang dito hehe) and the like. My favorite store? Don Quijote! It's a huge shopping building that you get to buy everything! Of course, hello kitty overload!:) We went to Tokyo and Osaka just to shop. 

Here are some snaps during our trip. :)

 

kawaii yaya! haha

                            

lovers in tokyo!

  

sibling love :)

much love,

Niki

Matti's first month

As I post this, Matti is looking at me (as he plays with his laway) as I rock his rocker. He had been so cooperative that I get to update my blog. It's been more than a month since my last entry, and yes, I've been dying to keep it as updated as possible. Matti celebrated his second month last November 3 and I'm still writing about his first. I want to be generous enough to share Matti's milestones to everyone (especially to the whole Aldub nation) since you have been there even before he was born. :)

Five things about Matti this month:
1. Average hours of sleep: 18 hours. Yes he sleeps a lot. At first I get bothered that he'll be up the whole night since he's sleeping the whole day, but no! He wakes up just to have my milk.
2. He loves to latch. A LOT. He wakes up when I try to remove my breast from him.
3. He smiles even when latching. In the middle of sucking, he stops and smile. Such a cutie pie!
4. When it's time to poop and he's still latching, he stops sucking and removes my nips. When he's done, back to latching! (this one is quite funny)
5. He only cries when hungry. A very well-behaved baby.

I thank God for a month of bliss because of Matti. :)


much love,
Niki

Lagro Ultrasound Clinic and Face to Face Ultrasound 3D Ultrasound experience.

And now that we're on our third trimester already, our OB allowed us to have our 3D/4D ultrasound done. A fellow mom told me not to expect too much from this but can you blame us for being the excited parents of this little man?! We'll grab every chance that we can get to get a glimpse of him!:) 

I've been hearing a lot of reviews regarding Lagro Ultrasound Clinic. They say it's affordable yet they provide good service so I scheduled an appointment with them last Friday. We are scheduled by 1 PM and we almost got lost since we're not familiar with the place. To my surprise, they are CLOSED. Yes closed. I am really disappointed because they didn't even inform us that they will be closing early! Imagine my disappointment when we traveled all the way from Bulacan to Lagro, just to know that the clinic is closed! The guard on duty wasn't even polite enough to talk to us. He just said "Umuwi ng maaga eh." Since we do not have any choice, I looked for an alternative. A friend recommended Face to Face Ultrasound clinic in SM North Edsa. We have errands scheduled that day so we went to Quiapo first and then to SM North. We're with baby's two ninongs this time.

We arrived there at around 4 PM. Hungry and exhausted, I told them to wait for a while before we eat because I'm excited just like that! I'm third in line. We waited for around 20 minutes before our session. This is how their clinic looked like.

(photos grabbed from their facebook page)

We availed their 3D/4D Silver package. During our session, our little man was so cooperative that he immediately showed his face! He's sucking his thumb, yawning and he even smiled! Here's some of his cutest photos:

One thing that everyone noticed... He got my nose! (Thank God!) My friends are telling me that I look like my son, just because he got my nose. Let me share a secret, apart from my prayer of a healthy and normal baby, I also pray for a cute baby! And God is really good, seems like we'll be having a cute one! So when your friends will ask you, where your looks come from, you can tell them "I got it from my momma!" haha! What's more important than this is that he's healthy and normal. I can't wait for September to hug and kiss you my little munchkin! 

And since we have already seen him, we also have a name for him now. And we'll call our little man "Juan Matteo." We got the Juan from his father John. And the Matteo is quite controversial. Lol. Ma-Mary Ann (my mom) and Tteo-Teodoro (my dad). So just like that, we named our little one after his father and his grandparents! My parents are really excited to see their first grandchild! (looks like I'll be having a spoiled apo!) We're counting the weeks before we see him. I wouldn't mind all the momsomnia and back pains because this cutie pie is all worth it. :)

much love,

the excited mom-to-be