Melodies of Life

I'm a big fan coffee and dark chocolate..especially those from France and Italy.  I always wanted to try all the best dark chocolate around the world.    One of my favorite praline truffles collection that I like is from La Maison du Chocolat...it's quite pricey and not something to eat every day.  I only order it on special occasion.  Recently I found a website that sell all the chocolate from France and Italy...
Chocosphere sells all the rare ones that you will not be able to get it here in US.
I couldn't help myself and order few of the famous brand from France and Italy.

The first one is Pralus Dark chocolate Chuao 75% cocoa. Pralus is from France and we all know France have lots of excellent quality chocolate.  Here is the main website http://www.chocolats-pralus.com/en/chocolate.html
It's one the best dark chocolate bar out there so I must try to see how it taste like.  After trying it..I have to give it 10/10.  The taste is amazing..so creamy and has this earthy fragrance in it.  I can say I am a fan of this chocolate bar. 













The next bar is consider rare.  It's from a small plantations in Venezuela and available in extremely limited quantities.  It can also consider to be the most expensive dark chocolate bar.  I introduce you to Amedei Porcelana Chocolate Bar.  I will try it tomorrow since I am limit to caffeine intake due to my pregnancy.


















From Amedei I also order two more bars..one is Dark Chocolate filled with Praline and Almonds

















And the milk chocolate filled Croccantino (hazelnuts and almonds creme)..order this one for my husband since he does not like dark chocolate...just had a bite ...very creamy and milky...if anyone like milk chocolate then they should try it out...


















Lastly I got Venchi Gianduja chocolate..Venchi is from Italy and I heard their brand is also one of the top for chocolate.  I had a piece and I love it!!  you can smell fragrance of the chocolate from the outside...and it has a lot of hazelnut cream filling inside with a thin layer of dark chocolate outside.
Anyway I'm so glad I found a website that sell all these good stuff and they ship fast too.
Here is the main website for the Chocosphere again.

Since our daughter will be born in the year of the Rabbit I think it would be cute to have a bunny outfit for her.  Nothing will be more perfect than the bunny outfit from Bunnies by the Bay.  I found a really good deal from amazon..it suppose to be $150 but for some reason that day Amazon sell it only for $40!!!

Right after I ordered it the price went back up to $120.  No idea why they change the price but I'm very glad I got it.  I got the set for 6 month for our little girl. 
The outfit comes with the book box cover

box cover

Inside the box is the bunny jacket and the hat and gloves

















I cannot wait to have her wear this ...so cute =)

Last week we decide to go to Laguna Beach and have dinner around there.  The sky was clear and beautiful.  We had a good time there relaxing and enjoying the beautiful of the beach.

Laguna Beach

After a long walk we stop by the Thai restaurant on PCH at Newport Beach.  We had the sampler appetizer and two dishes.  My favorite is the sampler appetizer...everything was good.  Had a really nice dinner there.

inside the restaurant

The yummy sampler appetizer..

We went to the ultrasound center today to do 4d ultrasound at 21 weeks.  We will go back to do another 4d when baby is at 30 weeks to see her facial features.
Finally I have some pictures of the ultrasound of her..she was very active and moves a lot.  There is one time she lift up her butt and jump too..so cute lol

Here are 2d image of ultrasound:

You can see her little hand there playing..the tech said she was holding the cord

Another 2d image of our baby girl

And here are some of the 3d image of our baby girl:

posing for the camera!!

Our baby was moving both her arms and play with the cord


















And here is the cutest pic..haha she open her mouth

















such a cute pose =)

Today I will be 21 week into my pregnancy.
It seem time pass by so fast..though I hope it go a little faster so to my labor day lol
I just can't wait to see my baby face.
I feel more of her kicks and punches day by day..
She's very active sometimes she goes on for few hours
I suppose to schedule a 4d ultrasound at 28 weeks to see her face,
but I really can't wait....my last ultrasound is at 16 weeks...
I know now she is growing bigger and I really want to see her moves
so I decide to schedule for a 4d this Wednesday...
hopefully this center is good and picture quality is great..
This is my first 4d ultrasound and I am very excited..
I also schedule for 29 weeks 4d ultrasound as well since it's only $49 more for second visit.

This is how baby look like at 21 weeks..

Yesterday I went to Mitsuwa to get some ramen at Santouka.  As usual we order the special pork salt ramen for my hubby and spicy miso for myself.  They both taste yummy like always.  I also order the vegetable and shrimp tempura from the udon place.  It was ok because they change the way they make it like before.  They now add tiny shrimp instead of the small size one.













Here is the spicy miso ramen














And the special pork ramen

Finally have some time to take photos of all the stuff I got for my little girl so far.
I pick two outfits for welcome home for her, but still haven't decide which one I will put on for her.
  I got one from Carter which has bunny hats


















Since she will be born in the year of bunny I was thinking this would be cute for her.  The other set is from Little Me.  I bought it from Nordstrom.  This outfit I like it a lot as well because it looks so elegant.


















I also got the quilted bunting in pink from Nordstrom for size 3 months and also the rose receiving blanket.The material for the bunting is velour on the outside..so soft and very high quality. 


















I also got this set from Nordstrom as well..very cute design =)

















The receiving blanket is from Little Me and it's a set with the rose outfit from above.  The other two blankets is from Koala Baby which is the exclusive brand from BabiesRUs.  Feels soft and warm..I'm sure my little girl will like it a lot.