18th week

I still don't know how to count weeks. Right now I'm 17 weeks and 1 day. I guess.

Things are going fine. That's why I don't write here as much as I should. Nothing much to tell.

Oh I started to show a bit last few weeks. But I don't think I gained any weight. Maybe that's a good sign if I'm in Japan. (I heard their weight watch is very strict) Last time I saw my midwife, she suggested to eat 5 times a day. 3 meals and 2 snacks. I haven't been able to do that yet. I do eat healthy though.

The picture is me 16th week. I don't think there's much difference yet now.

The weather here is bad. It's still freezing cold. We're still gonna have more than 10cm of snow in this month. I don't really mind snow (as long as I don't need to do shaveling) what I don't like is frozen sidewalks.

What I like and dislike (food)

Since I got pregnant I think my taste buds changed.
First change I noticed was coffee. I used to drink at least two cups of coffee a day. We bought decaf coffee right after we found out I'm pregnant though now I drink it once a week or less. Not because the decaf don't taste good. I just don't want to drink it anymore. I drink decaf tea more often.
Then I became LOVING fruits. Almost any kinds. I do eat two or three kinds of fruits a day. Today I already had an apple and I am having a pear as I write this.
I still like/love Japanese food except those snack rice crackers. Some people probably know that I used to LOVE rice crackers. I don't love them anymore. One package of rice crackers, it's sitting on our table for a while.
Oh now I don't wanna eat anything with herbs. Especially rosemary.
I don't like peas as much as before.

I didn't have morning sickness at all. So I'm lucky I guess. I got really tired and my different taste buds, they are pretty much the only things I felt in my first trimester. Oh and heartburns.

Couple friends of mine in Japan are also pregnant. And good friend of mine here has a 2 years old boy. So I can talk about my pregnancy with them.
We still don't know much about pregnancy. Still long way to meet the new member of our family face to face.

Good News

Yes, I am pregnant.
12 weeks (3 months)
Due date is Aug 30th.

February

We are having second snow storm in a week. About 20 more cm of snow coming tonight. Since we both don't drive, it's not really a problem. Kevin must shoveling more often though...
Oh speaking of shoveling, someone stole our metal shovel. Okay not our shovel. It's our landlord's. But we are the ones who do shoveling. Now we (er, mostly Kevin) use plastic one which is about to break in two picese.

Nothing much to say here. I've been staying in a lot. (I kinda had to, because of the weather) Yesterday we went for a walk at night and looked around apartments in the neighbourhood. We just can't wait to move in June. We have no idea where though hopefully we can stay in the neighbourhood. We should be fine anywhere near the subway station though, personally I don't want to move to East side of the city.

Home Alone

I haven't written anything here for a while though things were very slow for us till this week. Kev and I spent few weeks together just relaxing and doing some errands. I guess that was first time since we got married last year. And now, I've been spending few days by myself, he's away for work since Monday night. Again this is first time that he's away for more than a night. Staying here by myself feels weird.
Yesterday I went to see my friends and had dim sum. After that I went to Korean super market and got some familiar foods. ("shiosaba"!) Today I went to Japanese grocery stores and got more familiar stuff. I bought some "onigiri" and "kinpira" for lunch. Lately I miss Japanese home food very very much. So I've been making something like "sunomono" "tonkatsu" "yakisoba" or "korokke"... I wanna eat "hijiki"... dunno how to make it though.
Maybe tomorrow I will make either "sho-gayaki" or "nikujaga". It's hard to find thin sliced meet in regular super marker here. So I have to slice thick pork to make sho-gayaki or no meet nikujaga...

Happy New Year

It didn't snow for Christmas but we had some snow for the new year.
We've been lazy after Christmas and having relaxing new year.
I uploaded some pics when we went for a drive to countryside with our friend at my Flickr site.
Oh I had a good birthday too. Thanks for the birthday wishes.

End of the 2007

2007 has been a great year for me. Things went pretty well.
We don't have any plan for the night though we probably go out for dinner or something.
My first Christmas with new family was fun. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures. (I always have my camera with me, but always forget to take pictures.)
Oh yeah, what I got this Christmas? I got pots which you use specifically to melt chocolate + chocolate molds, lots of cookie cutters, flannel pj, warm pair of slippers etc etc and lots of chocolates. We are trying to give those sweets away though still lots on our table. Good thing we both like chocolate.

anyways,
I'm wishing you all a happy new year!

Nihon no minasan,
Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu.
2008 mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu.