shopping for the baby?

It was our first time browsing for car seat, crib, dresser, etc. stuff... it was so overwhelming. We went in not even knowing what we're looking for, so we were hoping the sale people there would help us out. We first stopped at Lullaby in San Bruno and they gave us a good overall education of what a baby car seat is and the 3 stages that the baby will go through with car seats ($$$). Then we went to IKEA, since we haven't been there in a while and I know that they have kids furniture there. We were hoping to get a dresser there, because everything we've seen so far were not that nice. Did you know that they have baby cribs there...? a little scary I thought, but actually later found out that their cribs and baby mattress were actually better than some of the American brands. Then we came across a dresser we really like and this will also be the baby's changing station ;-) off we go to isle 32 bin 48 and we took it home!!! Then on the way home we went to Babies R Us since it's right next door. They have "expected mothers" parking spots! of course I took advantage of it... after all I did shop for 6 hours.

I'm 25 weeks here.

Baby Dresser

it was a long day walking through IKEA and we haven't been there for at least a year. We decided to browse through the store to look for a TV entertainment center of some sort and check out waht they have for baby furniture.

We didn't plan it... but I love this white dresser for the baby and the counter will be use as his diaper changing station - we bought it and brought it home :-) I'm thinking i just might have to get some cute hardware pulls!

music time in the eve...

4th of July

It's 4th of July weekend and we went for a bike ride to Alameda and checked out the famous street parade. We went around the beach shore and then followed the parade for a little while until my butt got really tired (2 hours later).

I'm 23 weeks in these pictures, but yikes! some images I look huge....!

Long Weekend

Finally we have a 4 day weekend!!! We didn't do much over the weekend- we decided to head out for the day to Pescadero off of HWY 1, Davenport, Santa Cruz, then to my uncle's birthday party in the evening. It was our first nice sunny weekend in the bay area and the drive down HWY 1 in the morning was a bit foggy, but it cleared up by noon. We stopped at Pescadero for lunch and watched the world cup soccer game at Duarte Tavern and they got the best artichoke soup it's soooo good! Then we headed down towards Santa Cruz and want to catch some sun and walk on the beach. We stopped by this beach near Davenport, but I can't remember the name all I remember was the long staircase back up to the parking lot. The beach was very private and quiet and its got lots of seaweed! We then finally arrived at Santa Cruz, but by then it was already late in the afternoon... and started to get cold. We just drove through the town and made one stop for a shot. It was a nice relaxing day until the next long weekend...