Xiaobao shopping

Needless to say it's been another week since I last updated. One more change on me apart from Xiaobao moving and the back pain and general discomfort is my joints! :/ especially the joints on my hands!! Whenever I lie down and sleep, I'll wake up half of my body numb ('cause I sleep on my side most of the time), the numbness I've gotten use to but now my hands! I can't bend them or move them easily. They are like robot fingers!! :O surprisingly tight. This morning my left ring finger couldn't bend up itself :( I have to manually move it! Now it's better but still moving fingers is uncomfortable. Not sure if I should be in water as often now since being in cold and humid condition doesn't help. They are a bit better if I cover them up warm or move around more frequently. That's why day time is lot better than when I sleep....

Last night resting on sofa Xiaobao decided to show off some of his l33t Kungfu skill, so daddy filmed it on HD camcorder we specifically get for him so that we can send HD video back to homes....Here's the clip:


Yesterday we've been out all day doing baby shopping, man he's expensive!! We bought a cot (the one we picked is the mahogany one for newborn til 3 years old), a sterilizer (comes with 3 milk bottles), an electric/manual milk pump, some milk storage bottles, 2 nursing bras, a pack of cleaning/wiper stuff with cotton sticks, a bag of newborn diapers (on discount), and some pads for myself, looks heavy duty to me :/ - didn't even know I need all that before I went to this shop. One very warm one piece jump suit for xiaobao. Oh nearly forget, we also get a combi 4 in 1 xiaobao carrier (made of Japan, breezy material). Thought we'll need this materials for using in HK such hot and humid weather. Don't want Xiaobao to have heat rash all over whenever we go out! Last thing is a thermometer

As you can see all these are not really luxurious stuff, all necessity things before and when Xiaobao arrives. They are *soooooo* expensive - every little things do add up :/ Who said having a kid is easy!

Good job that I flipped through one of those pregnancy magazines while I was at Kwong Wah the other day, I saw they advertise this baby center shop with all these discounts and special offer. So we decided to pay them a visit. Things there are lot more reasonable and practical than those we saw in Tsim Sha Tsui. I was told the Maternity 010 is the most expensive maternity shop. So I avoid going there to shop. But at first we didn't know, so we got my supportive girdle from there. Cost us around HK$3xx, but I needed that at the time and we didn't know better where else to get it. My back was hurting so we got it at 010. Yesterday just out of interest, I asked the baby center shop how much was their girdle, the most expensive one there is not even over HK$200. grrrrrr you can tell how annoyed I was! But ah well, not much we can do. Not knowing things can be expensive!

But I am glad that we visited this shop and got all our supplies with discounts and we managed to find their value packages. The cot, sterilizer, duvet (comes with 10 pieces) and a baby bath are all in this value pack. Much cheaper than if we buy it a-la-carte. But as I said, they all add up at the end....:/ :/