Asha's High Chair

High chair is one of my  baby's gadget wishlist. Asha already had travellite / portable baby box, bouncer, and playmate that i bought while i was pregnant. That time i wanted to buy high chair and baby car seat too, but then i looked into my pocket and tried to forget it. Haha.. :D

Luckily i have besties that seemed to know what i want. They gave high chair as a present for Asha. I was so happy! Thank youuu PharmaChix!! :D

It's been a while that i left the high chair inside the box. Because Asha hasn't been able to sit yet. But last week i took the high chair and asked hubby to help me arranged it. It was quite easy to set, we didn't  even read the manual book. And voila, this is what Asha's high chair look like,

I forgot to put the tray on it -__-

I haven't checked its features (i even forget the brand), but in a glance the features are :
- easy to fold, light enough, and not too bulky
- the seat is thick and soft because it has somekind of foam inside and wrapped by waterproof outer
- has buckle to prevent baby slip down from the chair
- the tray is wide and easy to remove
- has footrest so the baby's feet won't hang in the air

Overall, i love Asha's high chair. Hope she'll love it too :)

But, one high chair still not enough for me. *for Asha and her dad i guess it's more than enough. Hee.. :D
So i bought this portable high chair that can be fold and fit enought to put in my bag. This {Keitaro's) portable high chair i bought from Picobella IStore,

This is how the portable high chair look like 

This one is the high chair i bought for Asha

The reason why i bought another portable high chair because the high chair is not always available at the restaurant. And it's imposible for me to bring Asha's green high chair whenever we eat at restaurant. My purpose is to get Asha used to eat in  chair whether at house or outside the house. Remember how our parents used to carry baby and go outside for sight seeing whenever it's meal time? And still the baby more excited to play or see the sight seeing instead to eat. I don't want to do the same thing with Asha. Meal time will mean sitting nicely at her chair and finish her meal.

So i guess portable high chair is another longterm investment :)

By the way i bought another stuffs at Picobella IStore, since they have wide range of handmade products for baby and mommy, i couldn't stand just bought high chair for Asha. So i bought the key holder wallet like this,

I bought 3 key holders, one for me, two for farewell gifts

Next month will be the first time Asha eats her first meal. I hope Asha will enjoy her meal by sitting nicely in her new high chair :)

Working Mom Or Stay At Home Mom?

I've been thinking about it lately since i'm not sure which one i really want to be, being a working mom or stay at home mom. If only i could choose my own way, then i'll choose to be a happy working mom who loves her job and have much time to spend with her baby and husband without feeling exhausted and depressed every night.

I'm not saying that i don't like my current job, i just feel uncomfortable with it anymore.

Certainly my job can pay me enough money to fulfil my shopping desire, so i can dressed up Asha with cute and pretty dresses. But money is not the reason for me to be a working mom.

What i really want now is having a peaceful life, surround by the people i love, Asha and husband. Having much time to spend with them and able to do thing i'm passionate about.

So today i submited my resign letter. It was hard for me to hand the letter to my supervise and explained the reason to her. But she understood me very well and let me do what's best for me. Thank you, Thank Lord.

Next month will be my last month in this office. I'm going to miss everyone here. But i have to move on and live my life as a mother and wife. This time, being a stay at home mom who takes care of her own baby, husband, and home, is what's best for me and our little family.

Dear Lord, please take care of our family and give us stregth to live our own life. I believe that this is the beginning of something better ahead :)

Ashandul

Asha is 5 months today. She babbles alot, screams alot, smiles and laughs alot, eating her fingers, grabbing toys, lifting her neck, and doing other thing that makes me amaze. She is my sunshine that brights my day. Now she even more shiny than before because of her bald head :D

Actually she had her hair shaved couple weeks ago when i took her to hospital. It cost IDR 65.000 to shaved her almost bald head into the real bald head!

My husband could have 6,5 times hair cut at barber shop with IDR 65.000. My oh my.. But at least the hospital used electric razor only to shave baby's hair. If i took Asha to barber shop, it would cost IDR 7.000 but they used the same  razor to shave old men's hair and other men's beard. Oh nooooo!!!!  >__<

This is Asha with her new hair(less),

My beautiful Ashandul :)

Be kind, be beautiful as always my lovely baby girl. Mommy and daddy always love you.

Lucky Go Sale!

It's been a while since the last time i posted on my blog. Too much to do at work and busy like bee during weekend. Lately we spent most of our weekend hunting sale stuffs on Ace Hardware and Informa Furnishing because they were on sale. My favorite word, sale! :D

First, it was Ace that on sale up to 70% off. We bought bathroom mirror and pack of light bulbs on sale price. Yeayy.. I've been looking for bathroom mirror that large enough, clean cut, in affordable price. Luckily i found it on Ace bazaar :)

Ace Hardware Bazzar where i found my dream bath mirror on sale

The following week, it was Informa that on sale. We really enjoyed our time at Informa. Even Asha had a good time too :) We tried cozy sofa, couch, and bed. How comfort!

We bought red sofa bed and single size bed with extra mattress. We're going to put the red sofa bed on the living room. It's comfortable, spacy, and bright. The single size bed made from iron, i picked the white colour because it looks cute in Asha's room. Lucky for us that we got mattress for free. Asha loves her new bed. As i put her on the bed, she enjoyed rolling herself on the bed. Hehe..  :)

Then we looked for some home accesories and bought wallpaper and present for my friend's baby. Here's the present i bought for the baby boy,

 The blue puppy babymate is so soft and fluffy. 

The giraffe height measurer with photo frame is so bright and cute

So it had been a busy fun weekend for me, hubby, and Asha on Ace and Informa. Can't get enough looking around and hunting furniture at Informa :)

ASI(P) Diary : Calculating ASI(P) Investment

Breastmilk is cheap. Sure, because i got it for free. My body built milk factory special for Asha :) But since i had to go back to work, i had to prepare stuffs to support my exclusive breastmilk programe for Asha. This is the list of my ASIP investment stuffs :

1. Two door refrigerator : IDR 2.500.000

LG Two Door Fridge to store Asha's milk only

2. Cooler bag : IDR 150.000

My GABAG Cooler Bag, pinky and eye catchy :)

Bought that and got two big ice packs for free. Saved IDR 30.000 :)

3. Cooler box : IDR 87.000

Puku Cooler Box, I have the blue one

4. Ice gel : IDR 35.000

Snowgam Ice Gel

5. Breast Pump : IDR 115.000 and IDR 465.000

 Little Giant Emily Manual Breast Pump, IDR 155.000

Medela Harmony Manual Breast Pump with Calma Nipple include, IDR 465.000

6. Nursing Apron : IDR 70.000

Nursing Apron

7. Glass Bottle : IDR 72.000 (3 dozens)

Bottle glass, IDR 2.500/pc

8. Bottle Nurser : IDR 195.000 (3 bottles)

Asha uses Playtex VentAir 6 oz wide neck bottle, she has the pink, yellow, and green

9. Bottle Spoon : IDR 42.000 and IDR 45.000

 Pigeon Bottle Spoon, IDR 42.000

Puku Bottle Spoon, IDR 45.000

10. Bottle Brush : IDR 25.000

Brush set for bottle and nipple, IDR 25.000

11. Thong : IDR 10.000

Bottle Thongs

Adding all the price, i spent less than IDR 4.000.000 to bought ASIP investment stuffs. It is a longterm investment, compare to formulated milk. I can even use all the stuffs for our next baby(s). Hee.. :)

I don't know how much money other mothers spend every month to buy formulated milk. Acording to my friends who gives her baby formulated milk since born, she spends at least IDR 1.000.000 per month to buy formulated milk. Whaattt??? It's a big deal of money to spend, while i can give the best milk for free.

Oh how i love breastmilk so much. And Asha enjoys it so much :)