✿ The ｡◕‿◕｡ Hills ✿

Yeah, I haven't update any news for a LONG~~~~ time. I know I know.

What was I doing lately? baby stuff of course~ other than that, I am addicted to cookie baking. (maybe because it is the holiday season??)
I have always been able to cook/roast yummy food but not when it comes to dessert making/baking.

The week before thanksgiving I bought 1 of those ready-to-back cookie dough and did my 1st cookie baking try-out. it worked out pretty good. That sure boost my confidences on my dessert making skills~ So last weekend I dragged my hubby and bought all the regular cookie baking essentials then I tried to start from scratch and make my own cookie doughs following the recipes I found online. The result.......................

TERRIBLE!!!! I end up throwing away the 1st batch and almost throw out the 2nd batch as well. I found that even I follow the recipe precisely I still end up with uneatable cookies aka wet dough. So to prove that I can bake cookies I didn't throw away the 2nd batch, instead, I saved them and I throw in some extra flour and re-bake them. Tada~!!!!!!! I fixed it! no black smoke during baking and no raw cookies...they actually taste pretty good!

My baby is finally here on time on his due date Oct. 10th! It would be nice if he comes next year 10/10/10 however I think he would not wait for another year :P so, 10/10/09 is fine~~

1st week goes by so quickly, and extremely chaotic. Our little monster Fla-Fla decided to be an angle during the day for the others and transforms into a little devil at night time. If we can catch 1hr of sleep at night it would be a miracle~

Friends keeps telling me everything will get better in time. I DO hope so......else I would start crying before Fla-Fla does :P

Being a parent is still a little surreal to me, I think being pregnant is easier than being an actual parent. One thing for sure, taking care of my princess Dorayaki is definitely easier than taking care my prince Fla-Fla. XD Hubby asks me "ready for 2nd one?" I said "sure, if u can take care both on your own."

Previous weekend we spend some time on both Saturday afternoon and Sunday night to do our last little of baby shopping. We have accomplished many things. Bought stroller, bath tub, changing table, play pin, pumpkin seat, car seat, and other baby essentials. As well as set up all of them after we got home. We worked till almost midnight on Saturday but it is all worth it. We have found out that we do not need to buy anymore baby clothes since we have received enough of them at our baby shower the previous week. However, to get the baby's room done we still have a way to go.

This morning we got our be-late baby shower gift from one of my hubby's boss, which is a swing we picked on our baby registry. It is sitting by the front door now waiting to be assemble once Mr. Hill gets home~

Haven't have a chance to take pictures for the things we bought during the weekend, but hopefully I will have them ready to post up on FB for my parents to see it since they can't be here yet.

I really need to give a big hug and thank you to my mother-in-law, she helped alot. *HUGS*

Here are a sneak peek from the baby shower's picture.

Top: Bryen and Me opening the gifts. Bottom: Mr. Hill's 5days old picture

Top: Party Favor. Bottom Cake and Cup-Cakes for the shower


Above: The crib now is full with toys..


Last Saturday was my first baby shower. Thanks to my Mother-in-law everything was perfect (was it?! let's forget about the dog issue for now) Mostly people from Bryen's work came and of course Nana and Papa fly all the way from Bermuda. Uncle Danny and Aunt Dawn's family drove up all the way from Palm Beach. They were all here just for me~ I am so thankful ~

Unfortunately the teachers from my Chinese School coldnt make it, but they have decided to throw me a party when the baby is month old. (very Chinese style baby hower)

Lots of food, drinks, and presents. I was overwhelmed by the amount of presents we have received....that reminds me I have to take more photos of the gifts we received. I thought I have all but guess not, I am missing some that I received pior to the baby shower.

For now the crib is full with toys and the dresser is cover in baby clothes....Bryen and I both think we don't need to buy 0-3moths clothes forever now. Still lack for 3+ months but that is going to be my mother's job when she comes from Taiwan :P

With all the gifts we received the most precious is the picture of my husband when he was 5days old. Gave me by my mother-in-law, I wasn't plan to cry at my baby shower but I gave in when I saw the picture.....:P

On a side note, my baby shower's theme is "Winne the Pooh"! XD many things we have received are by Winne the Pooh and they are just all so cute!!!

Well, it took us 17 weeks and 6 days to find out our baby's gender, and yes, it is a boy~~

I personally don't really care if it is a boy or a girl, I just want a helthy baby.
Here we go~ the first picture is a baby's profile, you can see the pretty nose and pretty shape of baby's head. When we were doing the ultra sound we actually saw our baby moving quit alot. He even waved at us. The second picture is a laying down view of our baby's butt. The tech that day did on purpose for those of you who have problem reading ultrasound pictures :P Yeah, she pointed the penis for you to let you know it is a boy. hahaha...I still find that arrow pretty funny being there pointing at the little penis....



Mr. Hill and I decided we will not start getting baby's room ready, we want to wait till our baby shower and see how many free gift we get. :P After my baby shower we then well get the baby's room ready. Untill next ultrasound, here is all I have for baby update.

Oh, we still haven't decided on the name, it is a difficult job...since we both don't like common names. Our baby is gonna be screwed up :P he will have a unusual first name, Chinese middle name, and "Hill" as his last name. All I can say is "GOOD LUCK! baby boy"!!