Mices and Cats

Momichan has many pelouches of every kind but instead of loving normal teddy bear like all children do, her preferred are mices and cats, she has three rats, black, white and light brown, 5 or 6 mices brown, grey and white and two cats one grey and the other reddish.

Momi loves biting the rats tail and every tail of every pelouche she has and in her games mices rats and cats are all friend togather HEHEHE

ciao ciao

Momichan Walks ^^

Momichan is doing many attempts to walk by herself but since monday she is able to walk by herself and she is very happy about, everytime she walks someplace she shouts happily, somewhay to say "hey I have done it yeeee !"

She walks at home and she walks at granny's house, she is more curious there because it's an unusual place for her, evething is new.
She amuses herself so much and she takes every occasion to make her attempts to walk and she is very good in doing even if she still goes on her knees from time to time and today she also tried to run and after she shouted happily again.
Here she is with her preferred pelouche, a grey cat from Ikea.

ciao ciao

Momichan Eats By Herself

Since a few days Momichan has not so much hunger or so it seems but this evening I made a try, and gave her something she can heat with her fingers, some ham ripped into small pieces and some broccoli that I cooked an half hour ago and .... WOW !!!

Momichan eated 3 slices of ham and a ton of broccoli. よく できました 桃ちゃん！
She uses the red food set from Ikea, the cup is funny and closes perfectly so that Momi can drink easily without wetting herself, the plastic bib is fantatic because food falling out of her mouth or from fingers falls there without going on the floor and in case she spit food is no problem anyway, the dish is a little large but comfy because has a cuban under it so that it stays well attached to the table ^^
Guess I never saw Momichan eating so much :) she was amusing, laughed so much, at first she made attempts but she was a little shy then she started with ham and she eated so many pieces then she tried with broccoli and laughed, she was really happy, tomorrow I want to try with chicken, she is not eating meat recently but eventually if she is able to eat by herself maybe she will and also I can try peas and diced ham and Ikea meatballs, now Momichan has 8 teeths so she is able to bite many things quite well ^^

Momichan Eats By herself

Momichan Is Able To Walk ^^

Since last time in november, Momichan has made various attempts to walk by herself, every occasion is good to make experiments and even granny's house is a nice park full of new places to explore ^^
She amuses herself so much and during the day she walks many time from the sofa to the entrance door and to the kitchen and again to the sofa and everytime she laughs and shouts happily something like "I made it ! I am able to walk heyyyyyyy !!!" and she smiles, also se has tried to run, she is still not really confident but she is really good already, it is so funny to look at her walking and so sweet, I always embrace her when she does and tell her she is really good, she smiles and hugs me back ^^

FOTO TO BE UPLOADED SOON

Momichan Loves Strawberries

Since a little time, I discovered Hipp Shop Germany and we buy there for Momichan some foods, they have so many different types of pasta dishes with meat and veggies, special milk for the night which help the baby feeling more ... full so that Mmi can sleep mre without awakening three times every night, now she just takes milk at 5.00 AM and 8.30 AM

But the thing sje loves more is strawberries, I bought for her some special milk powders additioned with fruits, Hipp sells with bananas, apples, summer fruits, yogurt and ... strawberries ! Momi gets crazy about and she also loves fruits but she does not like to eat so I have to put the strawberries in a bottle and add a little water to make it a little more fluid, in this way she drinks it all and as it is fruit and not juice it does not contain sugar but just pue fruit and is best for her.

Decorated Home For Christmas

At this time we should have ben already in the new house but as there have been a lot of problems we are still living in here. Momichan is still little but anyway this is her very first Xmas (last year she was just 1 month old) so I want she can feel it's a special period and want to show her decorated house, special X'mas music, presents and everything.
I already had put some decoratons here and there but finally this morning, hubby could go to buy the X'mas tree and took home so we could decorate it and put on the high blue cupboard ... if we don't do, either Momichan or the cat would destroy :)
Already we have so many presents to put under and around the tree (just 90 cm hight) and Momi was curious about all the coloured packets with ribbons and stickers.
I have bought two poinsettia plants, we call it "the X'mas star plant" and also decorated the kitchen with candles and special tin X'mas cookies box and in the entrance we already hnged the epifany sockets ^^

Mummy's Name Day 2009

In the first week of december is my name day so as hubby will nor be free from wor we had a special day today.
We went o Ikea to buy present for me, this time I as crazy for a pelouche of a shark of a special winter collection so we took, is so enormous we can use as a cushion and also little Momichan loves it even if it has a large scary mouth, it's a white shark ^^

After shopping we went restaurant to the Roadhouse, Momi was good child, eated meat with us, was happy about her special elegant highchair and got crazy abo0ut the giant cow at the entrance, she fall asleep aftewards as soon as we ot out to go home, it wa still raining a little.

桃子ちゃん、おたんじょうび おめでとう！

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMICHAN !!!

おたんじょうび　おめでとう　桃ちゃん！

Today our little baby is 1 year old.

It seems so strange to realize that alredy one year has gone since I came back from hospital with baby Momichan in my arms, she was so little and delicate, always hungry and with eyes closed, slept all day long and awakened only to eat HAHA now she sleeps only during the night and an hour during the day, eats four times breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner plus a milk bottle during the night), she has learnt so many things, almost walks by herself and communicate with cryes, shouts, laughs and strange words she invents ^^
For lunch we decided to go to granny to have a family party.
Granny was cooking food and when we arrived we just had to prepare the table. We had taken all the presents for Momichan with us and also ome baby food in case Momichan would not eat normal one. While we were waiting for last things to be ready I gave lunch to Momi, tagliatelle with cream and spinach, she eated all and after when my mum tok our food ont he table she also tried, eated potatoes, peppers and a little bit of roasted meat butshe seemed to appreciate more the grilled peppers.
After that we had the cake, a special one with Anpanman アンパンマン on it, I ordered at the sweet shop, I had searched on internet a suitble image and printed in colours to make the "patissiére" print on the cake and that's the result ^^


(Momi's daddy in the morning is always showing her cartoons and baby songs and little Anpanman films, she dances at the music and appreciate it, loves the character) and the open of the presents.
Here Momichan is having her cake, she wanted to carve and make slices HAHAHA :) we lighted the candle but she can't understand how to blow off the candle so I made, she was astonished even if she saw last month me doing the me and her daddy the month before, however this time she eated the cake and seems to like.

Here are the presents we disposed over the fireplace as soon as entered in the house, ready to be opened after lunch ^^

Poor Momichan she is still so little that doesn't realize so much what is a birthday and the meaning of presents, she had a berret red with a white pon pon and image of Winnie Pooh, a pelouche and a wooden elk she can seat on and balance, she smiled when I seated her on it.
I wonder what willit be the second b'day next year, maybe she will understand more and I hope we will have possibility to decorate home with ballons and have music (she will walk) and special hats and a giant "happy birthday" written on a paper hanging from the wall and other decorations.
After lunch she was sleepy, her daddy started to play chess with granny whi8le I tried to make Moi sleep taking her out in the garden but she fall asleep only when I dresseed her to go back home and put on the stroller, she went on sleeping once we arrived home, I put on her bed and relaxed a little.
Do not know what she will remember of this day anyway we have records, fotos and films to show her in the future :)

6th Tooth Momichan

This morning while giving to drink to Momichan, her daddy called me to say she has a 6th tooth !!!

YEPPEEEEEEEEEEE !!!

桃子ちゃん　おめでとう　やってね！

This is the fourth tooth down, center, right side. Guess next teeth will grow up ... maybe fangs .... vampire ones HAHAHA she already bites me on the shoulder when she plays HAHAHA :)

WoW tomorrow it will be her birthday, we are so proud of her, she has learn so many things since she's born, she i very intelligent, mischievous sometimes and a little rascal but she is fantastic :)

Hipp Order Arrived !!!

Today in the afternoon arrived at home the Hipp order I made a few days ago. It was unespected because it was said I would receive in about two weeks ^^

Hipp has many websites in nearly all Europe and also outside but not in all countries you can find many product choice, in Italy for instance the number of foods you can find is simply ridiculous but in Switzerland you can find whatever you want (when we went to Lugano the 19 october, I bought in a supermarket a tee and two vases of food and Momichan lovd a lot) and in Germany there is a on line shop sending luckily in all Europe at very convenient prices and you can find really a ton of items, a part from baby food, you can have milkboxes, bibs, milk bottles all personalized Hipp (see foto) T-Shirts and plates, spoon set, pelouches, creams, oils, a complete line for pregnant women, tissues to clean babyes bottoms and also boxes to contain them, books, music for babies, a complete food line starting from milk (but in Germany they not only have normal milk like here in Italy, following and kid one (1,2 and 3) but they have special milk for particular cases or allergies and another one special for the night, the also sell veggies, desserts with yogurt, muesly or just fruit, tea, fruit juices also in pet bottles half liter easy to order and pour in the baby bottles (cost is just 0,99 EUR), muesly starting from babies and ending with 3 year old kids, snack barrets, bisquits, rice crackers, complte menus starting 4 months, 8 months, 12 months, 1 year and a half and 15 months, bio pasta, a complete line for Good Night with special milk, foods, fruits, beverages and menus so that the baby has the right calories and food perfectly balanced to sleep well and a special tea to calm nervous babies (see foto)

When I opened the box Momichan was curious to see what was inside and when I said her it was all for her she made a big smile and started to look at all the items I was putting on the table, foods, juices, milkbottle, milkbox, bib, special milk ... I prepared the table for her with a new food (pasta with veggies and ham) and a dessert, strawberries and yogurt and poured a little of juice in her bottle. Momichan eated everything, the entire glass of dessert (200 gr) and all pasta (other 200 gr), drank all juice and smiled at me happily ^^

It was nearly a week she didn't have much appetite but I guess new foods will work ok ^^
After dinner I made her a shower, put her cream on, dressed her with a soft clean pijama and put her o bed, then went to the kitchen to prepare the milkbottle for the night using the special night milk and new hipp milkbottle and soon she drank all and fall asleep.
Good night little Momichan ... :)

Momichan Walks !

Today our little baby made me a sourprise, she was holding in her hands (both hands) some toys and all of a sudden she started to walk !
She just made two steps and after with all the calmness of the world she lowered on her knees, seated on the floor ad smiled. I embraced her, put up again and again she made two steps !

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Momichan Drinks By Herself ^^

Since yesterday, our little Momichan is able to take her bottle and drink by herself, she amuses so much in doing it and she is sooo good, she lift the bottle up so that liquid comes in her mouth and laugh like crazy :)

Allerhand - Tara Tote Bag

The Allerhand Tara is a roomy tote-bag style bag which does comfortable double duty as a baby and parents bag.
It has three external pockets, one open and two with zippers, to keep your belongings immediately convenient. Undo the draw-string covering which keeps your belongings safe and private, and you'll find another 3 large pockets, which due to the generous length of the bag, are easily large enough to store 2-3 nappies plus a change of clothes for your little one. There are also two bottle pockets, pen holders and a mobile phone pouch. Tara also has some accessories: an attached purse which is a great place to keep extra change, nappy pins, or even some band-aids, and a cute little "photo album" which can display two photos - a photo of your baby, your partner or whatever you want to see and keep with you would be great in here!
The Tara has handles for carrying as well as straps for going over your shoulder or the stroller handles and when your nappy-toting days are over, the Tara would make a roomy and attractive bag sure to be admired which you'll be able to use every day. Tra bag is available in black, camel or dark brown.

Size: Approximately 41cm x 30cm x 17cm

I bought in black for my baby, fed up of all normal bags which are not really elegant if you have some official occasion such as a wedding for instance where we have to go on saturday (my cusin gets married) or just if you want to take a walk dressed a little more elegant than the sporty things I always have to use (since a couple of years I have become a little "puffy" so is not easy for me to find something cute to wear that makes me feel and look pretty, I always wear sweaters and comfy pants but this morning I found at the open market a pair of jeans and a feather jacket unusual colours for me always dressed in black (jacket is brown and jeas are blue) which are sporty and confortable enough but elegant at same time so that I can go out with my baby finally normally dressed having the look of a mother rather than a baby sitter :)

Momichan, incredible baby ^^

Momichan grows so fast recently, fifth tooth is coming up, claps handsby herself whenever she is happy, starts walkig holding at the walls, says clearly "mamma"and smiles, starts to eat adult food more than before (this evening she has eaten curry rice cooked by her daddy and she loved it, eat it all eagerly).

Next month she will be 1 year old, seems yesterday we came back home and she was just some hours old ^_____^ so much time has passed since then and so many things have happened nd all seems really incredible :)

Take a look at this foto, Momichan was just born, she is so different fom the foto above made one year later but sh is so sweet, so puffy cheeks, :) oh how many kisses I gave on theese cheeks the two days we were in hospital, could not believe I have had a baby, she is so fantastic ever she was incredible and she is still incredible, everyday she sourprises us someway, some funny face, a kiss, a laugh, I still give so many kisses on her puffy cheeks and I will always do :)

桃子は１１月ですよ！

Here we are, on the train for Lugano.
Is 11.00 AM the train is already running away, Momochan is excited, our seats are not clean, train is full and narrow and we do not have any place to put the stroller, people pass by and every moment I have to lift stroller up to let them pass, after 20 minutes I am alredy tired !
On the arrival a Lugano station one hour later Momichan is asleep already :)

We walk down to the center of the city to take the postal bus to the commercial center we want to visit, arriving takes just 15 minutes, the cost of the bus ticket including return cost 12 CH and the bus inside is as clean as your house would be, is amazing ^^

First thing we go inside IKEA shop because we have to eat, luckyly I have taken a food for Momochan because the shop in our town i all organized and has food for babies but not here in Grancia, the shop is too little and so many things lack. We take some meat and a dessert, carrot cake, remember we ave to party because Momochan is 11 months old now, she ats all her food and tries also our and also tastes the cake but I guess she still does not appreciate cakes as we do and she prefers saltd food :)

We finish eating then we go around a little, some of the items for X'mas are already on display but in general in the shop there is so much less products than in the one near our home, we go outside and we start visit the rest of the mall. There is a supermarket, we go inside curious to see what foods we can find, everything is neat and cliean and organized, we buy some littlehings we cannot find in Milano and some baby foods for Momo ad we get out, so may little shops to see andalso we need to pause and rest a little so we sit at a cafeteria and order two capuccini (CH 6,60 correspond to EUR 4,36), after a while we restart our tour, there is a baby shop with so many dresses and bab shoes, hats and everything possible, we buy Momo a cap like a bear head with ears, she i so cute :) then outside the shop we find a little car, you know the ones you put coins inside and move ? Momochan loves to drive, she gets crazy so we sit her inside and she starts to bend and drive away, she claps hands, drives, laughs, she amuses herself so much.

Some other shops to see and a pit stop in the toilet to change Momichan and we are again waiting for the bus t return to Lugano, is evening alreay, shops close at 18.00 and our train is at 21.45 (if in future we will redo, we have to have the train around 19.00).

Arrived in Lugano is ark already, we take a walk along the lake, there are some ducks swimming, Momichan looks at them curiously, we sit a little on a bench then we walk slowly along towards the station, in a while little Momo falls asleep. Arrived at the station we have to wait about 2 hours before getting the train so we eat our sandwiches and I give Momochan her food and a bottle of milk and after a while ain arrives so we can get inside. Temperature is low but still is not so cold, train is empty so we have plenty of space this time for the stroller and our shopping items. Unluckily Momochan is tired but doesn't want to sleep so we have to invent somethng to keep her calm.

Near the Milano station, he train has a problem and stopps suddendly for 20 minutes.
When we reach the station is already too late, we can jump on he tube and reach the last tube station but then we do not have any possibility to get home !!!!
The customer care at Central Station tells us they cannot pay us a taxi or do anything, is not their fault because the train is from Switzerland and not italian so the only thing we can do is call mum and ask her if she can ake us home, she is not happy a the idea but arives at the last tube station around midnight, we step into the ca with stroller and all our things, Momochan finally falls asleep.
Arrived at home we put her immediately to bed, but still I have so many things to do, while Momo and her father sleep I have to pu in order verything we have bought, do the laundry, wash pavements and Momo's bottle, prepare the milk for the night and already put on the Christmas decoration we bough at Ikea.

You would say I am crazy but with a small baby is impossible for me wash pavements or clean the windows or do other works that take a little time because Momo makes a disaster and cries because she wants to stay with me so I have to make it by night whatever time it is, I can do laundry of course or other little things she can help or amuse to see but not much.
Finally at 4.00 AM I can go to bed, a quick shower, cream all over the body and soft blankets embrace me :)
Everything is clean neat and organized, the living room glass widows are clean and decorated with LED stars shining in the dark, all baby things hav been washed and put away and our clothes are washing and will be clean and dry next morning.

I extinguish the lights and walk in the silence of our home with my nescafè cup, drinkng it slowly in absolute quietness, outside I can see light from other houses and cars running by, the soft breath of my baby and hubby flows regularly like the tick tack of the clock. It has been a wonderful day even if so tiryig, next time we will wan to do again we have to organize best.

'Buona notte everybody !

Momichan is 11 Months Old ! 桃子は１１月ですよ！

YEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!
Our little baby Momichan today is 11 months old :) おめでとう　やってね！とてもうれしいですね！桃子はとてもおきくなりました、とても　かわいいなりました。

For the occasion this morning we will do a little voyage and visit Lugano city in Switzerland, we will take in a few minutes a bus near home until tube station, then the tube will take us to the train station where a little swiss train will take us to Lugano in more or less one hour time.

We will take our digicamera wih us so as soon as we will be back, I will post the fotos and tell what we have done ^^

I have already prepared Momi's bag yesterday night with a complete change of dresses and six diapers, a night sac for the evening so she can sleep comfy and hot when we will come back home this night, two vases of food for lunch and dinner, fruitjuices and snack, camomilla and powdered milk plus other little items she may need, we hope it will be a nice day even if weather forecast says temperature will be really low but we will dress her hot and we also will put on our feather jackets and thick socks ^^
またこんばんあいましょう！

Momoko At Ikea

This afternoon we went to Ikea to buy te famous swedish meatballs we eat a lot. As ever, little Momichan is amusing so much with everything, plays hide and seek with a blanket and laughs like a crazy, jumps on every bed sh finds, tries every soft surface of the shop exibition.

Here you can see her on a bed she loves cushions and feather bankets but she is more interested in the labels indicating price and datas of the item, here seems she already is able to read HAHA

Momichan loves to seat on big couches so here she is again happily seated on a grey one with two little soft cushions.

ciao ciao

けいたい。。。

Momichan first cell phone is a toy we bought her to make her listen to english language, the little Chicco phone speaks in italian and english, sing funny songs, lights with coloured leds and reproduces the animals sounds, Momi dances whwnenever she hears the animals sounds :)
The second cell phone is just producing melodies like "old Mc Donald had a farm" and sounds, she uses it as a night lamp whenever she wants to see during the night, enough she press the buttons and the phones lights as a Xmas tree ! This one is a present from a collegue of her daddy, his son had a basket of toys he did't use no more so he gave to us. Problem is this morning the phone stopped working and now Momi doesn't have night lamp anymore, I will have to make it repair or try to find in a shop again, expecially those days Momi is a little ill and the lack of her toy makes her feel worse by night :-)

A Terrible Cold ...

In theese days poor Momichan has a great cold, her little nose is always full and she hardly is able to breathe so I went to pharmacy and bought Narhinel, (foto up) recommended for babies who are not yet able to use a normal handkerchief like adults. The problem is that as soon as she understands I have to use on her nose, she completely explodes in a terrible desperate crying and her tears come out rolling on her cheeks ! GOSH ! she is so sweet but I can't help, I have to do it, her doctor said is the only way and also the pharmacist who has a baby same age but eventually I can try with another item, the aerosol (see under), we will go to pharmacy on monday and will ask for info and eventually buy an aerosol machine, guess this fall and winter Momichan will use so much.



ciao ciao

Gake no ue no Ponyo

Gake no ue no Ponyo Theme Song – Hiragana Lyrics

ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、さかなのこ
あおい　うみから　やってきた
ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、ふくらんだ
まんまる　おなかの　おんなのこ

ペタペタ、ピョンピョン、
あしって　いいな　かけちゃお
みぎみぎ、ぶんぶん、
おてては　いいな、つないじゃお

あのこと　はねると　こころも　おどるよ

ぱくぱく、ちゅぎゅ、ぱくぱく、ちゅぎゅ、
あのこが　だいすき まっかっかの　

ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、さかなのこ
あおい　うみから　やってきた
ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、ふくらんだ
まんまる　おなかの　おんなのこ

ぶくぶく　いい　におい
おなかが　すいた　たべちゃお
よくよく　みて　みよう　
あのこも　きっと　みている

いっしょに　わらうと、ほっぺが　あついよ
ぱくぱく　ちょぎゅ
あのこが　だいすき、まっかっかの

ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、さかなのこ
がけの　うえ　に　やってきた
ポニョ、ポニョ、ポニョ、おんあのこ
まんまる　おなかの　げんきなこ

Gake no ue no Ponyo Theme Song – Romaji Lyrics

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda
Manmaru onaka no onna no ko

Peta-peta pyon-pyon
Asitte iina kakechao
Nigi-niigi-bun-bun
Otetewa iina tunaijao

Anoko to haneru to kokoro mo odoruyo
Paku-paku chu-gyu, paku-paku chu-gyu
Anoko ga daisuki makkakka no

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda
Manmaru onaka no onna no ko

Buku-buku ii nioi
Onakaga suita tabechao
Yoku-yoku mite miyou
Anokomo kitto miteiru

Isshoni warauto hoppega atsuiyo
Waku-waku chugyu waku-waku chugyu
Anoko ga daisuki makkakka no

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Gakeno ueni yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo onna no ko
Manmaru onaka no genkina ko

Daddy's Birthday ^^

Today is Momichan father's birthday so we organized a little home party for breakfast with a cake baked in the early morning before going to granny's home for the special lunch ^^
Momichan is wearing her new Winnie Pooh dress, soft and cozy so she doesn't feel cold but she does not like to wear sokets anyway we will put on before getting out later.
On the cake we just put a few candles just to have some, Momichan is enthusiastic, laughs all the time, tastes the cake, sings and jumps, clappes hands HEHE


After breakfast we prepare to go granny's house for the special b'day lunch and to open a present we all made togather to Sampei ^^
Soon will be my b'day, and in november will be Momi's, she will be 1 year old, we are already thinking at a present and a special cake for her.

New Milk Home ...

In our little town the mayor has given permission to build a little water/milk house in a children park that gives fresh water natural or gasified and also milk.
The park is there since ever but in the last years it has been ruined so much so while building the water/milk house, grass has been cut, seats have been put all around so that you can seat and read a book or just rest, new trees have been planted, lamps has been added and the park has been fenced in order to prevent to the tramps to enter in the night, closing time is 20.00 pm

The little house gives both milk and water, the dispensers have been built at the opposite sides of the little building.
In the milk side three is also a bottle dispenser for the people who want to buy milk but forgot to take a container, you can choose for a plastic reusable bottle lighter and easy to carry, a transparent glass bottle or a glass decorated one with cows and milk images (very cute).
All the bottles you can wash and reuse as many time you want, all the project is ecologic and also we are helping a farm bouying his milk.
Everyday we go to buy fresh milk, one liter for 1 euro, (we drink a lot at home) we can do it ourselves, we put the coin in the dispenser, put the milk bottle under the milk dispenser and psh a botton, milk flows and fill the bottle. If we want water we go the other side of the little house and we can have it free, water comes from the dephts, is cheked controlled and gasified, we can coose between fresh natural and fresh gasified and the bottles have a label with all the ingredients (calcium, nitrates ...)

The milk/water house is a nice idea because is ecologic and helps to stay fit, people take a walk everyday, have fresh milk with no conservants, make no waist because can wash everytime the same bottle and reuse (but in case we forget we can buy another glass one from the dispenser), we help the farm who sell us the milk, I am enthusistic, we go to buy milk every 2 days and Momichan is happy to have the occasion to go out and at the park she always meet kids and the more or less the same people who everytime say her hello, recognize her and she smiles happily and claps hands ^^

On the 19th at 18.00 pm comig back home from my mum's house after having celebrated the 10 months of Momichan, we passed at the park were the mayor and many people of the town were reunited for the official presentation of the new milk/water house and after the cut of the ribbon from the mayor, everyone could take the milk or the water.
For the occasion there was a little party with sandwiches, soft drinks, balloons for the kiddies, gadgets and so on.
Momichan had a balloon, an orange one, she was excited because the balloon could fly, I hanged it with a thread at the stroller and she played with it (you can see in the foto below), I had a pen, a cotton bag to carry the water bottles and a glass water bottle.


Then I bought my first milk bottle, I choosed the decorated one because is cuter ^^
With my new bottle I bought my first liter milk, it is better to boil it before drink, so they say, I just drink it as it is but if the future I will give to Momichan I will boil for her.
There were fotographers all around to make fotos of the mayor holding the milk bottle and they also made one with the mayor that accidentally in that precise moment was holding Momichan in her arms, (mayor said she loves children and Momichan was attracted by a pendant the mayor had at the neck), the foto appeared in the town paper togather with the article of the milk/water house, backside in the foto there's me talking with someone and looking at Momochan. GOSH !!!

This is the second "house" opened in our town but this second one has the peculiarity to offer also milk (the first one near the townhall is only for water).
The "Water Houses" are present now in so many places around Milano and many other towns, alreday we have data from which we know each family can save nearly 300 euro a year for the water (going supermarket and buying bottles) and last year 18000000 plastic water bottles have been saved (it means they have not been used)

Happy 10 Months Momichan !!!

Today our little baby is 10 months old !
YEPPEEEEEEE !!!
Daddy is working as ever but Momi and I will go to granny's house and have a special lunch and cake I am cooking right now ^^

I didn't have the time to make decorations on the cake because we were late and the shop was already closed so we went granny's home directly. Mum had prepared some polenta with veal bocconcini and mushrooms (so yummy) and we gave Momochan a little. She seemed to appreciate, tasted polenta and both mushrooms and meat but seemed to get tired soon of biting the food so I changed to her omogenized meal ^^
Soon after the meal we gave her her presents to open, she was impressed by the green paper and ribbon and seemed confused about what to do with the packets until granny showed her how to rip the paper and take out the content but before understanding what was the real present she started tasting the paper and playing with the ribbons ! HAHAHA :-)
We stayed with granny until six then we went away because granny had to go to supermarket.
I remembered there was the innauguration of the new milk/water house so we went there.

Presents for Momichan

Tomorrow Momichan will be 10 months so we will have a special cake, I will cook a orange lemon mandarine cake and put a Pooh design on it and for the occasion I also bought some little presents for our baby, a Hello Kitty food set composed by a cup, spoon and fork and a bowl and a pelouche of a cow from Ikea. Guess Momicha will amuse herself to take the paper away and discover the sourprise, she likes the crackle of the paper ^^

ciao ciao

Ideas for A Special Cake

For the first birthday of our little baby I was thinking to buy a special cake with a Doraemon on it, something like this one you can see on the left, all creamy and soft, I will take the foto to our patiessére so that he wil have something to copy ^^
Eentually I will cook a cake myself, it will not be as beautiful as this one but anyway Momichan will not see the difference and maybe she will just taste, she does not yet know how much cakes are good, she's still so little HEHEHE
This evening I have made a carrot and yogurt cake for her daddy when he will arrive home late this night, as it rains I thought it i a nice idea to welcome him home. Momichan has tasted the cake uncooked and after when cooked, she made a strange face and did not seem to appreciate it that much HIHI but eventually she will like another cake with another taste, I can do so many but we will make her try the apple cake of granny which is in my opinion the best cake I ever eated and that is always present in special occasion or our b'days ^^

Pasta Lunch For Momi ^^

Since a few days I am cooking Momichan her first pasta dishes adding a special ragout with tomato and veal made by Mellin.
For today's lunch I choosed Plasmon maccaroni, just normal pasta but very little indeed, Momichan seems to love it, she eats all so quick happily and smiling ^^
I also found in the supermarket special Plasmon pasta shaped in small animals: green with veggies reproduces the animals of the savana (lions, huts, giraffes, rhynos ...) and orange with carrots reproduces the animals of the farm (sheeps, horses, cat, roosters, bunny), I showed her this evening and she laughed amused, she played with the small 6 animals made of pasta until dinner was ready and she saw cats and roosters in her dish ^^
I made pasta with cheese she liked but was so tired that nearly fall asleep on the highchair so I also made her a bottle of milk and added a bisquit, she drank all in her bed already fallen asleep.

ciao ciao

Nap ...

Momichan has to take a nap after her meal around 13.00 pm but most of the times she starts palying with her pelouches and falls asleep later, anyway she always awakes between 15.30 / 16.00 pm, she calls me and when she sees me she makes a big smile ^^

Crocodile

Momichan loves her crocodile, when we go Ikea she always want it to play so we decided to buy it for her. It's a little big enormous nearly as high as she is but soft and funny, Momichan likes to play with it before sleeping and Crocodile looks after her during the night and cares Momichan is not making nightmares ^^ :)

Ikea: Upptacka Week End Bag

This enormous bag you can find in pink or black measures more than 50 cm.
Is quite eavy once filled with things but can be useful if you have to travel and you take your baby with you so you can store 2 bottles, a teddy bear and a tinkler, a soft blanket (if you go by plane is always better to have because inside is quite cold for a baby) some dresses for one or two changes, diapers and creams, a tale book, two vases of omogeneized food and some other things you may find useful for your baby.
If it comes too heavy you can simply put on the floor, the bag had four little gum holders that will keep the bag clean.

Vote: good

Ikea: Spoiling Baby Bag

This special bag is a portable changing pad, you open it and can lay your baby wherever you are and change him diapers, included there is a towel you can easily wash and a thermo bottle holder. The colours are black or grey.

I bought this item for my baby, thought it woulòd be useful but instead after 1 hour use I discovered is totally unuseful and absolutely not practical, is not really a bag so you cannot easily open and take out things when you need, I usually take 2 bottles for Momichan and here I cannot do, you can easily put inside 3 diapers, creams and there is a nother pocket in which you can store a pair of pants t shirt and panties but the problem is always the same, the bag gets puffy and if you need something inside you need to unfold all and if you are in a supermarket is not comfy at all so I brought it back and changed to another item.

Vote: scarse

Drinking Cup ...

Momichan is trying to learn to drink from the cupand she seems quite good in doing it, she is curious about the cup and looks at it carefoully ^^



ciao ciao

3rd & 4th tooth

Momichan has two new teeth now, 3rd and 4th center upper side of her mouth ^^
Theese are still so tiny for the moment but enough strong to bite everything and she amuses so much now when I give her food to bite the spoon :)
Here are her two new teeth ^^

ciao ciao

崖の上のポニョ , Gake no ue no Ponyo

Ponyo sulla scogliera (崖の上のポニョ , Gake no ue no Ponyo), anche conosciuto con il titolo internazionale Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea ("Ponyo sulla scogliera vicino al mare"), è un film d'animazione giapponese del 2008 diretto da Hayao Miyazaki, prodotto dallo Studio Ghibli e tratto dal racconto Iya Iya En, scritto dall'autrice giapponese Rieko Nakagawa ed illustrato da Yuriko Yamawaki
Il film è uscito nelle sale giapponesi il 19 luglio 2008 e ha partecipato in concorso alla 65ª Mostra del cinema di Venezia In Italia il film è stato distribuito nelle sale il 20 marz 2009.

La storia narra di una sorta di bambina pesce che fugge dalla sua casa in fondo al mare a bordo di una medusa e finisce su una spiaggia dove viene salvata da un bambino di nome Sōsuke, che la battezza Ponyo, senza sapere che il suo vero nome è, invece, Brunilde. Fujimoto, il padre di Ponyo, la costringe a ritornare a casa, ma lei gli confessa che vuole diventare umana perché si è innamorata di Sōsuke.

In assenza del padre, Ponyo riesce con una magia a diventare umana, ma in questo modo rompe l'equilibrio del mondo e causa un terribile tsunami che si abbatte sul luogo dove vive Sōsuke. Ponyo e Sōsuke si ricongiungono, mentre Risa, la madre di Sōsuke, incontra Gran Mammare, la madre di Ponyo. Avvengono altri sconvolgimenti causati dalla magia di Ponyo e Gran Mammare rivela a Risa che se i due bambini riusciranno a superare una prova, Ponyo potrà restare umana e l'equilibrio del mondo verrà ristabilito.
Praticamente la storia della Sirenetta in versione giapponese rivisitata e corretta, se potrò trovare il DVD me lo vedrò volentieri anche io e se lo trovo in versione giapponese meglio ancora.

Se volete vedere il trailer che però è in giapponese, cliccate qui e qui invece per vedere un altro video e sentire la canzoncina di Ponyo e qui in versione più limpida cantata da una giapponesina di nome Fujioka Fujimaki che è un amore sentirla ^^
E se volete cantarla, eccovi le parole in romaji della canzoncina ^^

Gake no ue no Ponyo Theme Song

Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda
Manmaru onaka no onna no ko
Peta-peta pyon-pyon
Asitte iina kakechao
Migi-migi-bun-bun
Otetewa iina tunaijao
Anoko to haneru to kokoro mo odoruyo
Paku-paku chu-gyu, paku-paku chu-gyu
Anoko ga daisuki
Makkakka no
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko
Aoi umi kara yatte kita
Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo fukurannda Manmaru
onaka no onna no ko


(traduzione italiana)
Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, pesciolina tu
dal mare tutto azzurro,
sei giunta fin quassù!
Ponyo, Ponyo, Ponyo, sofficiosa sei
pancino tondo tondo, bambina tu!
Corro fin là...hop-hop, più su...
che bello aver le gambe, provo a trottar !
Stringo di più...faccio ciao-ciao...
che bello aver le mani, provo a strizzar
Se con quel bimbo saltelli,
anche il tuo animo danza...
Boccheggiamo e bacio!
Boccheggiamo e abbraccio!
Quel bimbo tu l'adori si!
Tutta rossa..

E qui un altra versione con testo e video ^^

Ticker

Como Lake

Unespectedly, Sampei's boss changed the opening day of the restaurant after holidays so we have some days more vacation so we decided to go to Como lake and take Momichan to see some other scenary different from Milan.

Once arrived we sit in a bar to refresh and we take two ice cream and a bottle water that Momichan instantly want to try to drink from, she is so funny but she is sooo good already :) guess she likes the sparkles :)

She also tries our ice cream (mine is a banana split with one ball chocolate, one cream and one green apple, Momichan eats the banana and likes the cream :)
Just in front us there is the pier with boats going and coming for lake trips so we think it is a nice idea to sho Momichan Como from the lake, she has never been on a boat. We buy the tickets and we get up the boat, the trip is short, just 50 km to show us the villas on the lake on the shorter side in which we find. The boat starts the engine and moves, Momichan is fascinated b the water and the rolling of the boat, she looks at everything with eager curiosness and laughs, guess this experience has been so funny and interesting for her ^^

Once back home she is definitely tired and fall asleep in a moment after her shower and dinner.

A Japanese Meal ...

A friend of Sampei who has recently opende a little take away japanese restaurant, has invited us to try his rolls and makis so we take our baby child, take al her food, drinks and everything she may need and we set off for the restaurant.
The palce is little but cute, all walls are green painted, the exact colour of the bamboo plants, chairs are from ikea and the same is for the unique table at which we seat, the rest of the furniture is dark brown.
The friend gives us some maki rolls, a shrimp salad, a chirashi and somemore foods, all is simply tasty and wonderful, funny thing is that this friend is chinese and never tastes what he prepares so ... how can he knows what his food tastes like ? :) he says the reason is chinese never eat raw fish but instead little Momichan does ! she tasttes more that one piece of a salmon slice of the chirashi a little dipped into soy sauce ! my little baby girl, she really likes raw salmon YEAAAAH !

Special Month Day: Leolandia

Today our little Momichan is 9 months old, to have a special day we decide to go Leolandia Park near Bergamo.
Inside there is Minitalia that is an area in which you can see all the reproductions of the famous monuments of villages of entire Italy and italian isles with a big lake that should be the mediterranean sea in which you can go on rafts to have a quiet and fresh moment, Leolandia area with so many attractions we can do with the baby, we can eat and take our own food from home, an Acquarium and a reptile museum. Going there is quite near, half an hour or so, as soon as we reach Momichan is starting to get curious.

Once inside we go immediately to the present shop and we buy for Momichan the pelouche of Leomonster, the mascot of the park, she is so happy and hugs it and start as usual tu suck every piece of it, then we start searching a place to sit and eat our sandwiches, Momichan has her own food and seated on a table, she eats while looking around with eager curiousness.
After lunch we start taking her on the attraction she can do, Saltarana is an attraction you seat inside a big frog that jumps up and down while turning in circle, Momi amuses very much, she claps hands and smiles and makes happy yell.
Every new attraction she goes she yells happily, there are many little kids and babies but Momichan is the only one going here and there like adulds, other babies like her are quietly sleeping in their stroller ^^
Some of the attraction are dangerous for her so we go alone on turn, one of us stays with Momi while the other is going some nice attraction then we do the contrary.
Momichan is never being naughty, she amuses herself, drinks so much water and she tries also to drink from our bottles, she is so funny but she tries to behave as a big child :)


There is a merry-go-round she loves really, she likes to drive ! There are horses, flying carpets, Dumbo and super heroes like Supergoofy, she likes the ones in which she can sit inside and move the weel, some of them like Dumbo or a rabbit have a cloche but Momo doesn't even look at theese, here she is on Supergoofy, she was so happy she started to dance moving her body front and rear and smiling, she was so sweeeeeet !!!
We also made a video I will try to upload soon.
Another attraction I went with Momi was a kind of basket with a strange helix, it went up and down and could turn on itself with a weel inside, Momichan could see all around from the heights.

To relax a little and have some fresh, we decide to go on the rafts on the lake in the middle of the park inside Minitalia, Momi is curious as ever and looks around the big blue dragonflyes flying on the water.

After that we return inside the park and she wants to go again on the Saltarana and "driving" on the merry-go-round ^^
In the meantime we also go up and down on all the attractions and amuse ourself so much, temperature is high so we continue to buy water bottles and every time Momi wants to try to drink like we do and she experience the sparkling water (I always drink sparkling water while Momi's dad drinks the one without gas), she amuses so much with the sparkles and she laugh so much ^^
Around 20.00 the park starts to close, Momi is tired but she has been a very good baby, we take our things and stroller and we go to the parking lot where car is waiting to take us home.

A Day In Museum

We came back from the mountains on monday and after an entire week with fresh air and super naps we have been submerged by a terrible monstruous hot, nearly 38 degrees !!!
Poor Momichan suffers hot a lot so we thought that as we are quite never alltogather (because daddy works all week long) it could have been a nice idea to visit the city acquarium and so we went ^^
It was a cute idea to show Momichan many different fishes from sweet and salted waters and also to stay in a fresh place as inside the acquarium there is air conditioned ^^
Momichan was astonished and curious about all the tipes of fishes and animals and shouted amused ^^


The foto below represent two giant crabs from the Japan sea, the male is the biggest one and seeing it inside the museum crab is really enormous ^^


After the Civic Aquarium we thought as we were near to visit also the Natural History Museum but we were late so the lady at the door said we could do just a short tour, we could visit only the downstairs with prehistoric animals, insects, and stones but we will come back another day to show Momichan all the animals inside at the second floor ^^
We also made a foto with a small triceratops and Momichan looked at him with sourprise.
After the museum we went along for the center of Milan, Duomo Plaza and Corso Vittorio Emanuele, we entered some shops and also the Disney Store to show Momichan some items, we would like to make her a cute present for her 1st year the 19 november so we will come back.
Poor baby was tired, we bought some fresh water and went along around for the shops as normal tourists for a time, once home I made Momi a fresh shower, dressed and gave her dinner, she fell asleep in short time ^^

In The Mountains

Posts of our vacation int he mountain will follow soon, I have and entire week fotos to show.
I will do as soon as possible.

FOTOS TO BE UPLOADED SOON

Going In The Mountains !

Unespectedly a few weeks ago, my aunt offered us her house in the mountains to take baby Momichan take some fresh air and it was really a sweet thought.
This is the first vacation for little Momichan, an entire week in the mountains in the village Alpiaz, Montecampione.
I didn't have any idea about how many items we would have to take with us, food for the week, our dresses and bath items, highchair, little tub and water toys, pelouche, and entire bag with omogeneized foods for Momichan, her Milk, bottles, the new camping bed bought yesterday in the Prenatal store, her cushion, blanket and all she needs for the night .... WOW our car was entirely full :)
We finally set free for the mountains late in the afternoon and we arrived mountain home around eleven in the night, house is little but has everything we need and also a nice cimney ^^

After having taken everything inside we mounted Momi's camping bed and she was already fallen asleep and so we went bed too, curious for the next day to discover things ^^

Long time ago, we also had a house in the same place but 12 years ago my parents decided to sell because we girls had our fiancees (my boyfriend hated the mountains and it was hard to convince him to go skiing in the winter or have some vacation during summer) and it was rare we could stay in the mountain house alltogather and our parents got fed up aboput going alone. It was a pity because now we would have used so much.

This is what we see from the living room window the next morning ^^



ciao ciao

Terribly Tired ...

I gave Momichan her dinner, she was still hungry so I also gave her the danito she loves so much, then I was clenaing dishes and Momichan started to fall asleep as sometimes she does but normally she doesnt fall asleep really on the highchair, this evening she was completely tired I guess even if she had a normal day but eventually is because she did not sleep so much for the nap today, anuway, I turned towards her after cleaning her things, just a few minutes and I found poor baby this way ^^

She was completely "gone", I embraced her to take her off the highchair and took her to bed, she neither awake, she went on sleeping quietly :-)

Here following are the measures of Momichan growing up in time ...

19/11/2008 weight 4060 gramms - height 52 cm (birth day at Buzzi Hospital, Milan)
11/12/2008 weight 4400 gramms - height 53 cm
12/01/2009 weight 5060 gramms - height 56 cm
13/02/2009 weight 5450 gramms - height 56 cm
19/02/2009 weight 5590 gramms - height 58 cm
19/03/2009 weight 6020 gramms - height 63 cm
17/04/2009 weight 6590 gramms - height 64 cm
18/05/2009 weight 6830 gramms - height 67 cm
25/06/2009 weight 7260 gramms - height 67 cm
01/08/2009 weight 8050 gramms - height 68 cm

ciao ciao

Hello Kitty Bento Set For Momichan

Last week I went to the fotocopies store and found they were selling some cute items of Hello Kitty one of which was unbelivable, a bento set !

They had so many things, I found a cute bag with zippers and spaces inside to keep bento and tools and included there is a bento box, second item I bought is a thermo bottle with straw, Momichan is not able to use up till now but it comes comfortable to keep fresh water I use to add to her camomilla or the powders to make her drinks:
Here is the set, I added a Kitty oshibory of my collection and a couple of fork and spoon from a tool set I quite never use (Momichan is not making any problem using plastic or metal tools important is the tools are little and perfect for her tiny mouth)
The set is very comfortable to be hanged to the stroller so that I can always easily take with us Momi's fruitjuice plus bottle and a danito or a yogurt plus ice containers to keep everything fresh for long time, when Momichan will go school it will be useful to pack her bento inside, (I wonder what will she thing and say when she will see her first bento and opening it to eat in the school)
How will I know we will use ? well I have never lost my items and I have always bought things thinking of the future to take out at the right moment like some toys from ikea I bought because I loved thinking in a nearest future to have a baby ^^

(If you want to read the post in italian, click here).

A Day With Momichan

Momichan relaxes playing with her toys at the table in front of the sofa, she likes tumping on the table and make noise :-)
Every day she awakes around 9.00 AM, I shower her and change diaper and dress, then we eat our breakfast alltogather, Momi eats fruits or danito and we have milk and cornflakes, recently we try to give her cereals mixed to fruits as she does not like drinking milk during the day but she is not crazy about that breakfast we give her, after we seat her to play at the table in the livingroom until lunch.
Between 13.00 and 15.00 Momichan takes a nap, when she awakes I give her snack, usually a danito but sometimes fruits or a baby pudding.
Around 5.00 PM is less hot outside and we can go out with the stroller to the park, she goes a little on the balance and after we go visiting granny until 7.30 pm.
Around 8.00 PM we are back home, Momichan takes a bath and stays 15 minutes playing with her water toys or a shower if she is tired and we have to hurry, after that I put on her a fresh diaper and fresh pijama put her on her highchair and give her a light dinner.
At 8.30 PM Momichan goes to bed until 8.30 in the morning, she awakes around 3.00 AM in the night for milk and another time around 6.00 AM for the rest of the milk bottle, eventually if is too hot she awakes another time to drink some camomilla ^^

*** Livigno OT

Well, new are not nice, this morning we called the mechanic and he had so bad news to communicate us, our car is definitely dead ! engine has broken down completely, our old 14 years old car has made her last effort to take us to her last travel in the mountains and back home safely.
So from now on we are definitely without car, it is not nice here because to go every place and supermarket we need, impossible going by feet because is quite far from now on it will be a problem for we cannot buy a new car now. Anyway someway we will do.

Good bye good old car, we called her "verdona" (big green car) you have cared for us the last 5 years (I inherited the car in 2005 when my father left and since then we have used ) ^^

Livigno

It was so much time we wanted to have a short holiday so we programmed a day in Livigno, a fresh place in the mountains, 250 km from Milano were we live.
The other day we had gone to the baby shop to buy a new baby bag bigger than the one we usually use because I needed to put more items for Momo for an entire day so far expecially dresses and diapers because in Livigno high inthe mountains temperature goes easily down till 16 degrees and I needed Momichan to be sufficiently hot.
We got out of home and went to take up granny, Momichan was sitting in her ovetto, drinking her camomilla.
After two hours we arrived at a place in which we could eat, to reach Livigno we needed another hour travel more. Momichan was excited but also nervous, this is her first travel so she was very naughty by eating her meal and after she was weeeping a lot, we gave her her milk bottle and finally she calmed, relaxed and fall asleep.
Finally we arrived in Livigno, the air was fresh, about 20° degress but shortly went down at 18° so after a while we put on Momi a pair of long pants and a shirt and after another while something hotter.


Momichan was curious about everything, she continued turning her head to look here and there, she saw horses and cows, she was quiet because air was fantastic, she didn't even drink that much. We went to a store to buy food, Livigno is special because everyone can go there and buy electronics, watches, cameras, perfumes, alchool, leather goods, tobacco, gasoline, foods and many other items discounted in respect of prices in normal cities so we bought chokolate bars, dices to make broth, soups, bresaola and mountain cheese, wooden matches and some other little things, then we stopped for an aperitif in a cute place and Momichan has two slices of ham, she ated all :-)
Here we are, sitting at the outsite table, waiting for our aperitif to come.

It was already time to leave, clock showed 20.30 already so we got in the car and sayd goodbye at the mountains but our car was not of the same advice .... she has been very naughty too.
After 20 km, just passing the customs shortly she started to smoke from the engine and broke down and refused to go any further. We waited a while, put 5 icy liter water inside the radiator and finally she switched on.
We arrived a the restaurant where we always stop to have dinner whenever we go to Livigno and this time Momichan had her meal and camomilla and we could eat quietly.
After meal we got in the car again to reach home but as soon as we reached Como lake, she swiched off again and again we had to pur icy water inside and wait a little, luckily Momichan has fallen asleep as every evening after dinner.
The engine was making a naughty sound and we were seriously worried we could not reach home safely. Fortunately after another two forced "pit stops" we got my mum's home and we decided to leave car there so we took out the stroller and Momichan in her ovetto, we took our shopping bags, we said goodbye to mum and we set off for home.
WFFFFF when we arrived, Momichan was still sleeping, we put her to bed and we had a nice fresh shower. What a day !
In this very moment, our car is by the mechanic and we really hope is something not so serious, tomorrow we will know ...

Compimese ^^

Nap

As every day Momichan is taking a nap after lunch around 1.00 o'clock until 3.00 in the afternoon, normally she awakes and weeps but today she was simply playing with her toys as she sould do in the morning when she awakes us around 8.00 :-)
She was playing with her pelouche star the comforter holder, she likes to bite the star :-)

She did not seem she wanted to get out of bed also when I said her we would have gone kitchen to eat her danito, she wanted to play on our bed but after she convinced to come and she walked until the kitchen where I put her on her highchair and she was happy to eat her oyatsu ^^

ciao ciao

Oven

Momichan was enchanted by our oven and she was attached to it and jumped, she was so funny, she was trying to sing something while I was trying to make her come to seat on her highchair ^^

Momi' s B' Day Countdown

Momi's birthday will be within 3 months and 29 days ^^

First Invitation To Party

The daughter of the boss of Momichan's daddy is having birthday today and her parents have invited us to the party, we have received a cute Mickey Mouse invitation card for the party of little Luna who is 2 years old today.
Around 4.00 o'clock we get dressed and ready to go out and reach the restaurant where Momi's daddy is working because party is held there, we have a present for little Luna, a cute bunny pelouche soft and big.
Momichan for the occasion is dressed with a cute green flowered dress and tiny shoes in case she wants to walk around (so she doesn't dirty her feet).
We arrive at the party, there are balloons al around and cute tiny appetizers over the tables.
On a big table there is the enormous cake with a picture of Mickey Mouse, glasses for the champagne and dishes of tiny sweets.

Momichan is really a good child, she amuses herself dancing and jumping with the other kids (I am holding her hands and she jumps according to the music), also she wants to taste everything, here she is in the foto while trying to bite a maki roll with tuna fish ^^

For dinner she had a piece of white fish suzuki, with rice and veggies expecially prepared for the kids (10 kids sitting at a special table)
Here is Momichan with the special cap, a few seconds before everyone received a slice of cake and a flute of champagne (she tasted a small piece of cake) ^^


At the end of the day she was tired and a little confused also, it has been a new experience for her. As all the kids at the party she received a present, a Mickey Mouse box with a pelouche of Goofy (every kid had one different).

ciao ciao

Momichan おめでとう！

桃子は８月です！おめでとう！



















Today our little baby Momichan is 8 months old ^^
おめでとうやってね！
Since a few days she is a little nervous and gets weepy so easier, here she is while trying to catch Felix which instead wanted to stay alone for a while and looks her in the distance ^^

Momi And Felix

Momichan is always trying to reach Felix our cat to caress him and when she gets near and touches she gets so happy ^^

A Strange Moon ...

Everytime we go to Ikea Momichan is fascinated by a big yellow moon where there are toys for kids, it's a moving toy you can sit on or lay and balance, she loves it.
This morning we decided to buy her as a present for her 8 months in advance (the moon we have been said is a toy Ikea has since so much time so they are selling the last they have and will not reorder so we will not find within a week time, also the price was strongly discounted)
We came home with the toy, I gave Momichan her food, put her to bed and washed the yellow cover to make it perfumed and softer, when around 16,00 Momichan awakened the moon was ready to play and here she is ^^

ciao ciao

I Love My Dad

The other day we were at the superstore, it is fresh inside, there is the supermarket plus so many other little shops such as Celio for men's wear, shoe shops, vases and gadgets, books, perfumes .... Momi's father needed a shirt and a pair of pants so he was looking around and choosing something, Momo and me were looking around too and we found a funny shirt, orange in colour with a cute writing "I LOVE MY DAD", there wasn't any with I love my mum but there was one with I love my daughter ;-)
I decided we had to buy the first one for Momichan to use as a pijama, as you see from the foto is quite big as it's a shirt for 3 year old kids but anyway it will last long and in the meantime she will use to sleep, is so funny ^^

children menu

If you are starting to give the first foods to your baby, here are some recipes using Mellin products, (you can use Plasmon of what you like most) some of them Momichan is liking so much.
Omogeneized baby foods are quick and practical, perfect and ready to use and you can also easily take with you if you move outside your house for a meal or a snack either if you go to the restaurant and take the baby with you ^^

QUICK SNACK
You need:
a vase of cheese
a vase of fruits











For a quick snack easy to take everywhere you can go, you can take with you two vases of omogeneized Mellin, fruits (apple, pear, peach or what ever your kid likes) and cheese (you see the images over).
Is enough you use half of cheese and entire of fruits and mix, it will contain enough calcium and vitamins, perfect for theese days of hot weather ^^

VEAL DINNER
You need:
a carrot
one potato
20 gr of CHICCORIS Mellin
1 vase of omogeneized veal meat Mellin
a spoon of olive oil

Clean potato and carrot, cut into small pices and boil in a little water and when broth is ready use it to cook the Chiccoris pasta.
When pasta is ready, add half vase of veal and mix, add one spoon of olive oil and give to your baby ^^

OSTRICH AND TOMATO
You need:
1 tomato (starting from the 8th month)
half carrot and half zucchini
5 spoons of semolino Mellin
1 vase of ostrich meat Mellin
1 spoon of olive oil
1 spoon of parmesan cheese
Wash and clean weel the veggies, cut into small pices and boil, use the broth to cook the semolino. Cook a few minutes the tomato, peal and take seeds away and add to the veggie broth you have done. Add the ostrich meat, parmesan cheese and olive oil.

VELOUTE' WITH CHICKEN
You need:
1 zucchini
1 potato
1 vase of chicken meat
half glass of Mellin Milk 2

Clean and cut the veggies into small pices and boil in water until soft, then smash them to obtain a cream. Add the milk and boil togather for a while.
Add the chicken meat and mix well and give to your baby.
You can also use omogeneized veggies if you do not have fresh, you can find carrots, zucchini and mixed veggies or you can use ready powdered veggies broth.

Hot Day, An Unsual Place To Have Bath

Today is a really hot day, I made a shower just a few minutes ago and I am again all sweaten, is too humid here !!!
I cannot even figure out how Momichan is feeling, so little baby, so I decided to let her play inside water in her little tub, giving her some toys. The place is unusual because normally she takes bath in the bathroom (her tub inside my big one) but as today I neede to clena and wash pavements I put her tub in the genkan 玄関 and here she is ^^



She amused herself so much, playing, laughing and shouting for fun until dinner time,a clean pijama and a fresh dinner and she is ready to go bed and I am ready to make dinner myself, watch a little tv and relax.


Her new game is throwing her toys outside the tub and see if she can take them again (upper foto) here she is trying to catch her plastic frog ^^

ciao ciao

Trying To Walk

Momichan is always trying to walk by herself but up till now she doesn't have the right balance so she cannot walk alone until I am giving her my hands to move but she's funny and sooner or later she will succeed ^^
Here she is ^^


ciao ciao

Garden Crawling

Momichan is having fun going here and there for my mum's garden, she loves the grass :-) most of the times she takes the grass and puts into her mouth :-) seems she wants to tast every corner of the garden HAHA

Ciaoooooooo

Momichan says "hallo" with her hand ! It's the first time ever she does and her father had the rare occasion to make the foto ^^

Taking A Bath

When I wash Momichan in the morning I always use to shower her, Momi quite never takes a bath because it takes more time but recently she does in the evening before dinner so that she relaxes a lot and after dinner she falls asleep better.
The novelty is that now she really gets crazy for the bath, she has started to use hands to play with water and her toys while before she stayed calm and quite unmoving. She loves her duck and gets crazy for the frog ^^

VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED SOON

Growing And Changing .....

I was looking at Momichan's fotos and noticed how much she has changed in only 7 months, we do not see because we live togather but the other do and we can only if we look at her fotos, give a look yourself ^^
Foto on the left Momichan is 7 months old, foto on the right she is 2 weeks old^^

New Progresses

The other day a strange thing happened, I was in the bathroom taking a shower and Momichan was in the genkan and she was searching for me, she was weeping, I said to her " mommy is in the bathroom, come here sweetie" and this time in a couple of seconds she entered the bathroom crawling as quick as she could and she produced a smile, something like "ta dah I have found you mommy, I know where bathroom is" ! I was astonished :-P

Also everytime I am saying to her, "sweetie come with mommy" and she is crawling on the pavemant, she follows me werever I am going in the house, I am trying to leave her "walk" as much as I can instead of blocking her on the sofa I leave her free to move wherever she wants and this seems it works WEEEE

This evening I tried another thing, every good mother knows babies have to go to sleep around 21.00 but Momichan eventually because of the hot weather, every time doesn't fall asleep until midnight and this causes me to have dinner around 1.00 o' clock in the morning and to realx a little on the sofa beore going bed so this evening I tried to put her to bed earlier ....
We had been to the swimming pool around 4.00 pm because it was really hot and Momi had not taken her nap, she refused totally even if she was sleepy so much.
In the swimmpool this time she amused so much, we had already gone to the pool 4 times but after we blocked and now we returned after nearly one month, this time Momichan moved legs and laughed, she amused really, while the previous times she stayed unmoved hooking me not really relaxed but everytime anyway she seemed more cautios than afraid,well today for the first time she felt good ! YEAH !
So, after swimmpool we turned back home, I made laundry and after we got out once more, it was still early and inside home it was hot so we took the stroller and went to the park on the balance, she loves it, and we met so many nice kiddies and so many nice mums and as Momi was ont he balance amusing so much I was chatting along. Then I took her in the arm to make another kid go on the balance, gave her the camomilla bottle and she fall finally asleep sweet child.
I wen on chatting so that she could sleep quietly (if I put suddendly ont he stroller she awakes so I have to wait a little) and after a while I decided it was time to go home, it was already nearly 8.00 pm. Arrived at home I made her a fresh bath and put on clean diaper and clean pijama, gave her dinner (carrots and philadelfia, she loves both) she ated all and wanted also a banana danito, then she started closing eyes and touch the eys with her tiny hands so I thought "is best if this time I try to put her to bed now insteda of waiting the classic 10 minutes because otherwise she awakes and until midnight she is not sleeping.
I put her to bed, made a shower and after went to see her, she was weeping and also she needed change diaper again, so I changed, put to bed agan and always with soft voice said her I was going to make my food and a milk bottle for her, well it has not been so easy, but speaking softly and calmly and going three times to see her and giving milk bottle, I succeeded, at 9.15 pm she was sleeping in her bed ! YEEEE
I have decided I will always try from now on to do this way, is best for her even if is not easy at the start she will cry a little everytime for a while maybe but she will take the habit little by little so I will be free in the evenings and she will have a better routine to follow:
Not that I am a horrible mother but recently I was not succeeding in putting her to bed at the right time and today I am satisfied of myself and of my baby so as we say よくできましたね！やった！！！

さようなら, ciao ciao ^^

My Nephew

As you probably know, Momichan has a cousin, his name is 琉絆 (Ryuki)) and he is 6 months old, weights 7 kilos and is as tall as Momichan, 67 cm, we have received his foto today ^^
Ryuki's father is the brother of Momi's daddy, we had been invited in Japan last year in march for his wedding, Ryuki has been created during theri honeymoon ^^
Foto on the left is Ryuki on the day of his birth 6 january 2009, foto on the right is the one we received today, guess is recent theese days ^^

Momichan Today

Momichan is going around the house with her new casquet and seems she likes it, at least she does not take it away ^^
This foto has been made this morning, she has already done breakfast and she waiting for us (we are cleaning the house as every morning) playing with her toys in the living room ^^
And this is Momi in the afternoon, she has been dressed with a pink fresh dress because outside is really hot and humid about 36 C degrees ^^

She is feeling happy because she can stand by herself but after the foto I had to catch her to prevent her from falling ^^

ciao ciao

Momichan And Felix

Since Momichan is crawling and getting faster everyday more, she tries to reach Felix to caress him but the cat, maybe afraid of a new little human who is getting quicker bigger than him, is not really ill at ease, so he gets away keaving poor Momi in anger ^^

Soft Helmet

Momichan is starting to move everywhere, she wants to walk but many times she falls down also she moves fast now, so fast that sometimes we are not able to catch her before she falls down from sofa or bed (we have put soft cushions and carpets to help her) so to prevent damages to her head, this morning we went to Prenatal store and we bought her a special helmet, it's soft and aereated as you can see in the photo, although she sweats a lot. I feared she wanted to take away but seems she likes it, I made her see in the mirror and she laughed a lot, she never took the new special cap away, hope it will help also because in our new home, the walls are dangerous for her because are not like the normal ones, they are covered by many little stones, the italian name for that type of covering walls is "strollatura" (to see how it looks like give a look at this piece of wall of my mum's house).

Crawling here and there in the house, Momichan saw our cat Felix and she now moves quite well, she wanted to catch him but I guess the cat was not of the same idea ...
See the video ^__________^

VIDEO TO BE UPLOADED SOON

ciao ciao ^^

Stroller

As Momichan is bigger now, I thougth I could start to use the stroller instead of the ovetto, also because inside ovetto she always tries to get up and to put herself in the four legs position so eventually inside the stroller front street position instead of front mum she would appreciate.
At the beginning seemed she loved, she is so curious and looked everywhere but guess when she is tired she does not like the stroller either because after a while she started to cry and wanted to get out of it ^^

ciao ciao

Noodles !

Momichan is starting to eat noodles instead of classic infant food, so yesterday I bought some little spaghettini, some rings and some shells.
Today for lunch I choosed the shells and boiled in water, added in her plate some omogenized tomato and veggies and made a normal pastasciutta that we childish was call "pasciuttina" ^^
Seems she loves it really because we already gave her three times and she eated it all every time, she opens mouth so much and she's totally happy ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

Cookie !

Doctor didn't told us anything at all about breakfast for our baby, she said us only what to give for normal meals so Momichan since 2 months already is having lunch, oyatsu and dinner that she eats with the spoon, bottles she uses only for her milk in the evening and at night at 23.00 and 05.00 o'clock but since a week we have added also breakfast ^^
We try to give her different foods everytime, sometime she eats a danito, or a yogurt and fruits or fruit omogenized like today.
As she has two teeth now and likes to bite everything, we thought it was nice for her to chew a cookie so after she had eaten all her fruits we gave her a cookie. She liked it so much that she eat it quickly, obviously we gave her a Plasmon cookie, the ones you can put in the milk and melt ^^

Baby Walking ^^

Momichan is growing very fast really, every day is a tons of sourprises.
Today we were in mum's garden and I was holding Momi by her arms and she was standing barefeet in the grass trying to walk, well ... she put a feet after another so quickly she did 4 meters nearly running !!! HAHAHA she still doesn't have the right balance to stand by herself and walk alone but if I hold her she does ^^
When we came back home (our home) she was sleepy and tired so I gave her a bottle insteda of her meal but she awaked again and started to play. I put her near the sofa with her toys (as you see in the foto below)

and went in the kitchen to cook something for me for dinner, when I came back I found Momichan crawling around the table quietly ! HAHA

She is really quick in her progresses, teeth, crawling, walking ... I guess if she continues like that she will be walking before she gets 9 months old ^^

Stands Up By Herself

This evening I was in the kitchen washing the bottles while Momichan was inside her Pogy in the living room. Suddenly I heard a tinkling, something like someone touching glass ... I thought it was strange because Momi couldn't reach any glass ... or she could ?
Well I went in the living room and found her this way ....

She had gotten up by herself helped bu the table and she was streching to reach the vase of the cookies !!! This is the second time theese days she sourprises me, she is really growing up so quickly WOW ^__________^

Granny's B'day

Today is my mum's birthday and same day Momichan is 7 months old ^^
As Sampei was free from work yesterday we had a special day yesterday with cake and special lunch.

We went to Ikea (inside was fresh and little Momo fall asleep in the meantime) to buy a little plant for mummy as present and a present for Momichan (a Barnslig tinkler shaped hippo) and some frozen salmon and sauces for a special dish, before coming to mum's house we retired the cake from the shop. Once home we cooked the fish and Sampei prepared the appetizers and we had finally lunch YUM YUM
This is the cake ^^




Here is mummy with little Momichan, (you can see even her two new little teeth) she was so happy she continuously laughed and tried to touch the cake with her small hands an we made her tast it also, she seemed to like but not so much ^___^




It was so hot that when I hugged Momichan to change diaper and prepare to give oyatsu I found her completely wet ! still now I do not really know if wet was sweat or pipi or both things anyway I had to make her a shower, change diaper and ask mum to lend me a clean tshirt because I didn't had with me a complete change for Momi so here she is with her grandpa tshirt (I also had to ask for a towel to put on the ovetto for the other one was completely wet)

In the foto, Momichan is holding her new Barnslig Hippo tinkler, guess she liked because is red and makes a strange sound ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

Momichan is 7 months old ^^

Our little Momichan is now 7 months old ! YEEEEEEEE

New Bed For Momichan ^^

A friend is having a baby and we need to change bed for Momichan because she need one with the lateral we can take away so that she will have possibility to get into bed by herself so we are giving or Sniglar bed to our friend and take the new Hermelin for Momi, we still not have decided if red or blue, that will depend ^^

We also decided we will buy the curtains you can see in the second foto, name is Barnslig Djur, my mum wants all house to have white curtains, she says from outside all house must be elegant, I hate white, in my home all curtains have always be coloured so if I take this ones for our little room, she will se white from outside but we will have coloured one inside and we are all happy ^______^
We already bought the blankets because Momichan is sweating so much and I only had two set which were not sufficient, this ones are really soft, something like ... uhmm ... same soft you can have only if you have a blanket set you use so much and have washed so much, gives a nice feeling, seems cozy ^^

CIAO CIAO ^^

A Day AT The Store

Air is really hot theese days, about 36 degrees and we do not have air conditioned at home, Momichan is not feeling good with hot and she is terribly nervous poor child so yesterday we made a fresh bath ^^

Today instead we visited Ikea because she needed a new set for the bed (blankets and cushion)and mummy had given me some money to buy her a present for her 7th month so I took a Barnslig Lion and a Camel, Momichan got crazy for them, she was laughing and playing all the time.


















Inside the store there is fresh air and poor Momichan who was entirely red for hot soon smiled again as soon as she felt fresh. I had taken with us fresh camomilla to drink and her snacks so after having taken her things, we took a seat at the bar, I drank a free coffee and gave Momichan her fresh yogurt (I always go around with small thermo bag with ice inside and snack food for Momi) and she eated all, she loves strawberry more than bananas, apricot and apple ^^
She was really happy today, she was playing with tons of toys at the kids place, saw so many babies, had oyatsu, crawled on beds and kicked in the air in the space for beds and sofa, played with the mirrors at the bathroom exposition and much more.
When we got finally home she was tired, I made her a bath, changed diaper and put on a new clean pijama and gave her dinner, she played a little bit more then she felt asleep ^^
She's so cute when she's smiling now with her new two tiny teeth ^_______^

Hipp Hipp Hipp ...

Today we had not much time to prepare lunch and we needed to go Ikea to look at some items for Momi and the new kitchen we will have to buy for the new house (we already found a proper name for that, our house name will be "l'isola che non c'è" - the isle that does not exist - in memory of a song of E. Bennato from the album of Peter Pan), so after a short look at the things we needed we went to the restaurant to eat something, we had 2 discounted tickets to buy a portion of meatball half price so we both took 10 meatballs with boiled potatoes, lingonberry sauce and sour cream sauce and a water bottle.
For Momichan we bought two vases of Hipp food you see here under, she ated much of it and seems to like, it was the first time she was eating at a restaurant and she was really good child ^^

Taro Giro Saburo

In Japan Taro Giro and Saburo are very common names, translated into italian, they sound somethign like First, Second and Third ^^
I gave theese names to the three bears Momichan plays and sleeps with more or less in the order they arrived. Taro is the first one, we bought in Ikea before her birth (bear in the middle), Saburo is the biggest one (left bear) and Giro is the one with the pijama (left bear also bought in Ikea) ^^

Bed Lower Position !

This evening I had to put Momichan's bed into lower position because for first time she got up by herself holding at the bed. I was cleaning her bottles in the kitchen and she started to weep as sometime she does when she lost her comforter or else so I reached her and I found her this way ............

She had never done it before, I was astonished ! never got up in her bed, I have thought "if she does this next she will try is to try to get out of the bed to reach us but she will bump her head down falling out of the bed" I said to myself I would lower the mattress tomorrow but then I thought she eventually would make something stupid during the night or in the morning before we could get her so I started immediately to modify the bed to put her mattress the lower position and a fter 20 minutes work I had succeded ! WEW now her bed is safer even if not so comfy for me because to lift her up my back will ache much and I do not know how to give her bottle and kisses in this position (cannot reach her with my face to kiss her goodnight) but anyway I hope now she will stay comfy and safe.

Here is the bed after my hard work, now is safe ^^

Second Tooth !

This morning also the second tooth yesterday we saw still under the gum has come out so now little Momichan has two teeth in the center and she can do so nice smiles now HEHE
Here is the particular of the two new teeth (foto not easy to do)

First Tooth

WEEEEEEEE !!!
Momichan was a little nervous theese days, we thought about theeth but every time we looked her nothing was appearing until this morning when just by chanche I noticed a little white upper part of a tiny tooth !!!
YIPPE YA YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY !!!
Little Momochan now has her first tooth and this little masterpiece has a twin brother nearby who I guess, will appear in a few days.
GOSH, seems yesterday I was coming back home with little Momochan between my arms so little and quiet needing everything and now she has grown up so much already, guess this summer she will also start to walk a little ^^

A New House ...

We have decided for many reasons to change house and organize for the moving in september to go to mum's home ^^
For a while, house will be really small but maybe in the next future we will have the possibility to make it bigger including one of the two balconies but for now it will be a tiny 40 square meters home.
We will have a bathroom, a large room for kitchen and living room and a small bedroom that will be most Momichan's room :-)
It will be a new adventure, for the start we will sleep alltogather in the small bedroom but as space is not enough to put our bed, we will sleep on futon and Momi's little bed will stay near the window, it will be funny.
When we will have chance to make it larger we will sleep in the living room on the sofa and room will be mostly Momichan's, even if we will put our bed inside (she will use in the future when her little bed will become small) and a drawerchest and the cupboard for dress for eveybody.
Also the kitchen we will have to buy new, because we cannot take our old one with us but we will have fridge, oven, microwave, washing mashine and dishwasher ^^
I am so happy because our baby will have possibility to grow with a big garden in which to play, her granny will see her grow and we will help each other, also we all will be more relaxed than we are now, always with home charges and loan to pay ^^
Do not think it will be all a bed of roses, anyway we will be always in my mum's home even if divided by a door and with an independent entrance from outside, we will not be as independent as we are now, everything has a price but I think we will be all more relaxed and that is what is important for my baby.
I know little apartment will be cute and anyhow, jewels and precious things are small isn't it ?
Guess little by little this new home will be so cute even if we all will have to be very much organized and will not have any possibility to fill the house with tons of things because there isn't space enough and everytime we will but something new we will have to give away something old.
We will have parties for Sampei's, mommy, mine and Momichan's birthday all in the new home and hope for X'mas to have at least half kitchen with current water and gas.
We will make so many new decorations using polarvide blanket from Ikea and so many other gadgets for Momi ^^
One of the things will be our Xmas tree made of textile because there is not a corner where to put a real tree, another thing I want to do is a kind of clock for the seasons so that Momi will know everytime which season it is and what to expect ^^

Balancing on ovetto ...

Momochan has discovered her "ovetto", in the sense that now she knows she can move it up and down to balance so she does and laughs like a crazy ^^



In the afternoon we went to mum's house and I put Momochan on the grass to play, she tried to move on legs and arms like a cat or a dog but she's not yet able enough, anyway she moves fast rolling and pulling HIHIHI ^^

Momoko Name Day

Second name of our little child is Camilla, we thought that as a foreing name could not have a saint on calendar we could give her a second name to have a special day unce in a year so 31 may is Santa Camilla ^^
Happy first name day kiddie ^_^

Bento Box

A friend has given us a cute new bento box for Momichan, she didn't use for her kids so she gave to me.
It's a thermo box I am using so much everytime we are going at the park or to mum's house, to put yogurt inside with ices to keep fresh, Momi loves her box.
The set has also tools, a fork and a spoon with a rigid case so comfy for her now that she likes fruit yogurt and we always give her for snack around four o clock ^^
Here is the bento box ^^

CIAO ^^

Lunch

Today was really hot indeed so as I was full with many things to do we stayed at home.
Momichan was nervous again and did not eat her lunch in her bottle, I waited and tried afterwards but the same she did not want so I had the idea to try other way
Opened the bottle and tried with the spoon but it was too liquid so I had to throw away, opened the vase of her food and gave her veal with the spoon and .... she eated !!!! WOW
Her face was completely joy, she smiled happily and opended her mouth everytime to have another spoon, this is really new for us, astonishing, she wa so clever, she eated all, then I tried with the vase of carrots and also she eated a lot then she had her bottle with camomilla, good child ^___^
I will try tomorrow making tiny pasta and putting veal and carrots inside and give with the spoon, we will see if she eats.

Clouds

Momichan is very nervous theese days, we are terribly nervous and she feels it.
She doesn't even eat anymore with the spoon, she hardly drinks from the bottle so I again giving her just milk, milk she drinks ever ^^
This afternoon we went out taking a walk, I had to go some places and thought it would have been nice for her to go on the balance she likes so much, time is strange half clody, half sunny, windy and crazy.
The park was empty so Momichan had the balance all for her, she was happy a little, also she drank a little of camomilla and had a little snack (milk and bisquits).
She fall asleep coming back home, but instead of going inside house I stayed down in the garden going here and there around to make her take some fresh air, it was windy a little, not strong but fresh and she continued to sleep. When we got inside home I layed her down in her bed high enough to keep her fresh, window opended and also she went on sleeping.
She awakened around 22.00 PM, I gave her the rest of the snack and now she seems to be fallen asleep again.
I hope she will have some cute dreams ^^

Food With The Spoon !!!

Today I tried to give Momichan her food with the spoon because so it has to be and is time to try. I hav to say Momichan is really a fantastic child, she never weeps and she is curios about everything so she accepted the spoon and she eat her meal like a good kid, well guess she ate half of it anyway like first attempt is really not bad ^^
Menu was carrots, rice powder and bunny meat, and here she is (we also made a video) with her japanese Anpanman bib ^^

(ITALIANO)
Oggi ho provato a dare a Momi la sua pappa col cucchiaino invece che nel biberon e devo dire che è una bambina bravissima forse perchè curiosa ma ha accettato di buon grado il cucchiaino e apriva la bocca da sola per averne ancora, certo si è sbrodolata un pò ma era anche la mia prima pappa e non l'avevo fatta abbastanza densa ma lei è stata bravissima ^^
Ho capito però che è meglio se compriamo al ikea un cucchiaino più lungo e quei bavaglini in plastica morbida con tasca e maniche che si indossano sul vestitino perchè è impossibile tenerla pulita e si sporca dappertutto pure sulle maniche del abitino HAHA
Il suo menù oggi era: crema di riso, carote e carne di coniglio ^^

Pic Nic At Centenario Park

Today Momi's father is home relax, he has the day free so we decide to make a pic nic.
It's a little cloudy outside but really hot and anyway sky promises to show sun afterwards so we get up and we start: I get up from bed first, make coffee and start to clean floor as everyday, wash the bottles of Momichan and put inside sterilizer, make shower (during all of this Sampei is looking after Momi) finally take Momichan to wash her and dress her for the pic nic, prepare the bottles with camomilla and milk with bisquits for oyatsu, meantime Sampei is washing and prepare to go out, we have to go supermarket to buy food.
In theese fotos you can see Momichan in our kitchen while I am preparing her bottles and daddy is taking a shower, she is looking our cat Felix and shouting at him, she finds him so funny ^^












(click on the images to see them bigger)

So we go out to reach the supermarket; after one hour we're back with everything we need, so while daddy is looking after Momichan, I am in the kitchen preparing some bento stuff: rice salad, chicken with ginger and onion, (Sampei's bento) some dices of apples to which I add some lime juice so as to keep it clear and not darken, then I cut two slices of ikea raspberry cake and add other two sweets, add a fanta and a sprite, water for Momichan and pack everything into bento and boxes, out ikea fresh bag with ices inside is ready to keep everything ^^

Now we are ready to go to the Centenario Park and have lunch, we get out by feet, we do not take the car, sun has already got out and his rays are really hot. Momichan wears a pink cap to protect her head.
After 10 minutes we reach the park and we find a place near a big tree with a little space in the shadow to put the stroller and Momichan so she can play with her toys a little while we eat but soon we take Momi and we lay her with us on the plaid, we eat and she plays with the refreshed bag that makes enough shadow for her.






In the parc there are a lot of kiddies running around, playing soccer, going on balances, skating and some kiddies more or less same age of Momichan going around in their strollers.
Momi and I walk around while daddy is finishing his lunch, we see dogs running, kiddies playing and running around, people at the bar at the center of the parc taking coffes ...




When you amuse yourself time is running so taking sun, walking around finishing eating and time is alredy gone, we have to go back home so we get up pack everything and go to the bar to take a coffe and use toilet to refresh a little and change Momi's diaper and walk to my mum's house that is just 30 meters from the parc to say hello, in her garden we put the paid down and Momi kicks in the air, laughs and for the first time make a step on her arms and knees .... WOW !!!
After a while she is tired and starts to wee also is time to give her food so we take out her bottle with milk and she drinks her dinner happily ^^
We have to say hello to mum and go home, Momi needs a bath and go bed for the night, we also need a shower and some dinner and soon our preferred tv program will start (CSI) so our sofa is waiting :-)

CIAO CIAO ^^

(ITALIANO)
Oggi bella giornata di sole, il papà di Momi è a casa in relax,cosi decidiamo di fare un pic nic al Parco del Centenario.
Bisogna prima andare a fare la spesa cosi mi alzo, faccio le pulizie, lavo i biberon, mi faccio la doccia e poi vado a prendere Momi per lavarla e vestirla cosi il suo papà si può lavar vestire mentre io preparo con Momi i suoi biberon per il pranzo.
Tutti pronti peruscire andiamo al super da dove torniamo un ora dopo con tutto il necessario. Io mi metto in cucina a preparare tutto (insalata di riso, pollo con cipollotti e zenzero, torta di lamponi comprata al ikea e frutta) e impacchetto tutto pronto per uscire.
Fuori fa caldo, Momi indossa il suo cappellino rosa per proteggerla dal sole forte.
Al parco c'è un sacco di gente, bimbi che giocano e vanno sulle altalene, gente al bar che chiacchera e beve caffè ....
Noi troviamo un posto tranquillo con un albero dove parcheggiare il passeggino cosi Momi può stare tranquilla e magari fare un sonnellino ma è sveglissima e dopo pochi secondi la mettiamo sul plaid con noi, leigioca e noi mangiamo. Poco dopo io e Momi facciamo un giro mentre Sampei finisce di mangiare si gode il sole e ci guarda.
Andiamo sui giochi, Momi si diverte un sacco sul sediolino a molla e guarda divertita le bimbe sul altalena, ci vorrebbe andare anche lei ma le bimbe non ne vogliono sapere si lasciarne uan libera per lei, cosi girelliamo un altro po, vediamo lo stagno e poi torniamo dal papà.
Momi gioca ancora un pò sul plaid e poi si è fatto già tardi, impacchettiamo tutto e ci dirgiamo al bar per rinfrescarci un po e cambiare Momi e poi passare da mamma che abita li vicino per salutarla prima di andare a casa.
Arrivati da mamma stendiamo il plaid sul prato e Momi si mette a fare prove di gattonamento e per la prima volta forse inconsciamente, accenna due passettini a quattro zampe .... WOW !!!
Ha fame cosi tiro fuori il suo biberon e le do il latte.
E' tardi, Momi ha bisogno di fare un bagnetto e di mettersi un pigiamo pulito e noi pure abbiamo bisogno di una doccia in più CSI inizia a breve cosi salutiamo e ci dirigiamo verso casa, Momichan nel suo passeggino già dorme ^^

Hipp Milk 2

Momichan has 6 months so from now she will have to change her milk and take the second one to follow first.
The first Hipp milk had a nicer taste but anyway Momichan drinks it the same without any problem.

Happy B'Month Momichan !!!

Today Momichan is 6 months old WEEEEEEEEEE half a year !
Seems yesterday we came home from hospital and now this baby is nearly crawling and eating food different from milk, kissing us, smiling and doing a lot of new things, all of this seems incredible ^^



(ITALIANO)
Oggi Momo compie 6 mesi, mezzo anno !!!
Sembra ieri che tornavamo a casa dal ospedale con lei in braccio e adesso quasi gattona già, mangia cibo diverso dal late, da bacini a noi, sorride e fa un sacco di cose nuove, sembra incredibile ^^

Crawling Again ^____^

Momichan is so strong now and since yesterday she is trying to move on her legs and arms but today she was able to ... see yourself ^__________^



She was so happy, laughed like crazy and was hilarious, this is just her second attempt and she already does, WOW ! I am happy to see her progresses and always tell her she is so clever, she smiles back at me happily everytime looking at me with her greyblue almond eyes ^^
WOW ! my baby is so big now ^______^


(ITALIANO)
Momi cresce e impara cose nuove, oggi ha fatto le sue prime vere prove di gattonamento !!!
Non sa ancora muoversi su gambette e braccine ma ha capito come posizionarsi e si dondolava avanti e indietro, felice di esserci riuscita, adoro quando impara cose nuove e ci riesce e le dico sempre che è bravissma, lei mi sorride e mi guarda coi suoi occhioni tutta felice ^^

Dukies, Balance & Bunnies

As it was a sunny day and Momichan is not feeling good since a few days, (she is nervous maybe because of teeth growing, also since three evenings she throws up the dinner and globally she is not eating much) I thought it was good idea to take her out for a walk ^^
First we went to the park and Momichan went on the balance, she amused herself so much, she laughed and felt confortable ^^

As the park was closing, we decided to go mum's house since is a few days Momi is not seeing her granny because of the weather (it has been raining).
Crossing the little bridge with the small water flow, we saw a mother duck and her little babies, 10 little soft dark brown little duckies taking a fresh bath, here there are ^^





Then we went to mum's house. I had to change diaper to Momi so I washed and cleaned her and put on a new fresh diaper and then left her free to make her experiments on the bed, she had aten her milk and fruit today for snack so she had plenty of energies ^^
After a while we went out in the garden to see the bunnies, they have grown so much and now are very big, Momichan loves the bunnies she always looks at them carefoully, there are 9 of them in the cage 4 of which are entirely black ^^

Therewas still a lot of light but it was already 20.00 o' clock so we came back home, during the walk she felt asleeep but she awakened in time for dinner, I changed menu and gave her veggies and meat and this time she ated all and didn't threw up ! WEEEEEEE ^_____^


(ITALIANO)
Momichan non sembra stare molto bene recetemente, è nervosa forse per i dentini, fatica a dormire, mangia poco e da tre sere vomita tutta la cena e in generale mangia poco cosi ho pensato fosse una buona idea distrarla portandola a spasso un pò.
Siccome oggi c'erano 30 gradi, le ho messo una tshirt e un paio di pantaloncini cosi aveva gambette, piedini e braccine tutti nudi (lei è felicissima quando può avere i piedini nudi) e siamo usciti.
Per prima siamo state al parchetto e ho provato a metterla sull'altalena, sembrava sentirsi a suo agio e si è divertita un sacco, mandava gridolini divertiti ^^
Poi siccome il parco stava chiudendo, siamo usciti per andare da mia mamma e attraversato il ponticello abbiamo visto sotto un anatra coi suoi pulcini, 10 piccoli batuffoli natanti col beccuccio chiaro e il corpo morbido marrone scuro pigolanti e buffi, che teneriiiiiiii !!!
Poi siamo arrvati da mia mamma, Momichan non vedeva la nonna da qualche giorno perchè aveva piovuto e non eravamo potuti uscire.
Dovevo cambiare Momichan così la ho messa sul lettone di mamma e dopo averla lavata, pulita e cambiata, la ho lasciata giocre sul lettone per un pò e lei ha iniziato a fare un sacco di capriole e i suoi primi esperimenti ... ha consumato un sacco di energie ma oggi per la prima volta da 2 giorni aveva fatto di nuovo merenda per cui di energie ne aveva tante ^^
Dopo, siamo andati in fondo al giardino a vedere i coniglietti, sono cresciuti moltissimi, lei li adora e vorrebbe sempre toccarli allunga le manine ma purtroppo mordono e non mi fido a farglieli toccare.
C'era ancora luce ma erano già le otto di sera cosi ci siamo incamminate verso casa e Momi, nel suo ovetto siè addormentata, si è svegliata a casa dopo un po in tempo per la cena, ho cambiatomenu e invece del frmaggino che adora le ho dato verdure brodo e carnina e lei ha mangiato tutto il suo biberon e non ha rimesso !!! WOW !!!

Sitting Momichan

Momichan needs to get stronger in her muscles so we put her now on a carpet clean and soft and with the down side covered with rubber so that the carpet stays fixed on the floor withou moving.
She is not yet able to sit alone without a help so I use the special cushion we used to give her milk when we came home from hospital after her birth, with that cushion she is able to stay and play with her toys comfortably ^^

(ITALIANO)
Momichan ha bisogno di rinforzarsi i muscoli per poter gattonare e camminare più avanti cosi la mettiamo su un soffice tappeto che ha un lato di gomma cosi da rimanere bello stabile e fisso sul pavimento senza spostarsi, per questo utilizzo lo speciale cuscino a banana che usavo per allattarla tornata a casa dal ospedale dopo la sua nascita e che non ho più usato quando ho iniziato a darle i biberon, il cuscino l'avvolge e lei si può appoggiare stando così comoda e dritta in posizione seduta visto che è stufa di stare sempre sdraiata ^^

Hamster Dance

This Hamster Dance is so funny that when I hear makes me laugh so much ^^

La Vecchia Fattoria

I guess the english name is OLD MC DONALD HAD A FARM, anyway here is the video on You Tube, Momichan laughs like a crazy when she ear it ^^

Il Coccodrillo Come Fa

There is a funny song for children about the voices of the animals, some kids are singing and asking about the varius voices of the animals.

today we all will try to know what sounds the animals make to comunicate between them
what sound makes the cow ? MUUU
and the frog ? CRAAA
and the cat ? MEOWWW
and the dog ? BAU BAU
and the crocodile ????
nobody nows ...
someone says his teeth hache, that he eats too much, that sometimes he cries,
he never wear jacket, he gets angry but doesn't shout,
drinks camomilla and half awaked he goes away.
but what sound makes the crocodile ? nobody knows ....

Here's the song in italian, its very funny indeed but if you think so many other animal do not make any sound.... do know for instance what sound makes the bunny ????
^_________________^


IL COCCODRILLO COME FA (what sound makes the crocodile ?)

Oggi tutti insieme
cercheremo di imparare
come fanno per parlare fra di loro gli animali.
come fa il cane? bau bau
e il gatto? miao
l' asinello? hi hoo hi hoo
la mucca? muuuuu...!!!
la rana? cra cra
la pecora? beee...!!!
e il coccodrillo?...
e il coccodrillo?...boh..!!!

il coccodrillo come fa
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si dice mangi troppo, non metta mai il cappotto
che con i denti punga
che molto spesso pianga
però quand' è tranquillo come fa sto coccodrillo?...

il coccodrillo come fa
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si arrabbia ma non strilla, sorseggia camomilla
e mezzo addormentato se ne va.

guardo sui giornali non c'è scritto niente
sembra che il problema non importi... A chi?
alla gente
ma se per caso al mondo c'è qualcuno che lo sa
la mia domanda è ancora questa qua!
il coccodrillo come fa ?
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si dice mangi troppo, non metta mai il cappotto
che con i denti punga
che molto spesso pianga
però quand' è tranquillo come fa sto coccodrillo?...
il coccodrillo come fa
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si arrabbia ma non strilla, sorseggia camomilla
e mezzo addormentato se ne va.

adesso ripetiamo se vogliamo ricordare
come fanno per parlare tra di loro gli animali
come fa il cane? bau bau
e il gatto? miao
l' asinello? hi hoo hi hoo
la mucca? muuuuu...!!!
la rana? cra cra
la pecora? beee...!!!
e il coccodrillo?...
e il coccodrillo?...boh..!!!
il coccodrillo come fa ?
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si dice mangi troppo, non metta mai il cappotto
che con i denti punga che molto spesso pianga
però quand' è tranquillo come fa sto coccodrillo?
...il coccodrillo come fa
non c'è nessuno che lo sa
si arrabbia ma non strilla
sorseggia camomilla e mezzo addormentato se ne va.
allora, avete capito come fa il coccodrillo?
lui mezzo addormentato se ne va

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Crawling ^^

Momichan is nearly 6 months now and she's starting to move on her legs and arm but she is still not good enough too coordinate both togather so she gets angry everytime she tries.
Funny is that she can move legs and arms separated but not yet togather and if she does she goes with her legs on her knees and the rest of her body down ^_______^



(ITALIANO)
Momi ha quasi 6 mesi adesso e inizia a fare tentativi per gattonare solo che ancor non riesce a coordinare braccia e gambe cosi se muove le gambe il rsto del corpo è a pelle di leone e se prova le braccia sole non riesce a muovere le gambe e si arrabbia moltissimo ^^ è tanto buffina la mia piccola ^___________^

Mother's Day 2009

In Italy we have a day entirely dedicated to mothers, normally is 8 May but everytime special day is trasfered to the nearest sunday but Momi's father is working on sunday and had day free today so we organised a BBQ for today at mum's house.
We went to the ice cream shop to but the cake I have ordered a few days ago and we went to the supermarket to but meat, sausages and wiener to grill in the outside barbeque in the middle of the garden, we also took some iced french fries to cook inside oven and some salad.

special cake with butterflyes and hearts made of white chokolate

Momi's father lighted the fire, mummy prepared the sauce for the meat and I prepared the table and a plate of salami, ham and cheese to eat while waiting the BBQ.

Momichan plays with her feet while we are taking coffee


Momichan was lying on the grass happy as ever, kicking in the air and touching the grass.
We had lunch then waited 16.00 o'clock fot the dessert 'cause lunch had been sooooo much :)
And, in the meantime, Momi has also lunch, played with the grass, saw the fishes (big carps my sista keeps at the end of the garden) and the bunny and we did thousands of fotographs :)


the enormous bunny of sista (this is the male, female was still in cage) Momi is touching it curiously


(ITALIANO)
In Italia festeggiamo il giorno della mamma il 8 Maggio ma di solito slitta alla domenica, noi però lo abbiamo anticipato oggi perchè il papà di Momi aveva giorno libero oggi, così abbiamo organizzato un barbeque da mamma con tanto di torta speciale.
Momi si è divertita come sempre un sacco, coi piedini nudi nel erba, al sole, a vedere i pesci e il coniglione che non ha resistito a toccare e noi a fare un sacco di foto.
Il papà di Momi ha fatto il fuoco e cucinato sul grill in giardino, la carne e le salamelle comprate stamattina al supermercato e poi per la torta abbiamo aspettato merenda perchè ilpranzo era stato molto abbondante :)

Momi's New Pooh Bottles & Accessories

the red cap of the central bottle, is a rattler so while Momi is drinking she can play with it

Finally after more than one month waiting, this morning we received the Pooh bottles and accessories for Momichan ^^
Recently everytime we go out we need so many items, 3 bottles for lunch, camomilla and snack time, mini box with doses of milk and rice and cerelas powder, comforts and so many other things.


















Powder dispenser is really comfy, we put everything inside, camomilla, food portions to mix afterwards, milk. Everytime we need enough we open the dose we have to use, foods, milk or camomilla or else and we pour inside bottle, fresh ready to give Momichan ^^

(ITALIANO)
Dopo più di un mese finalmente stamattina ci è arrivato un pacco delel cose che avevamo ordinato per Momichan, adesso da un pò di tempo quando preparo la sua borsa per uscire ci devo mettere dentro un sacco di cose, la sua pappa, la camomilla con le dosi di riserva, il latte con omogeneizzato di frutta e biscotti per merenda e altre cose cosi abbiamo trovato un posto che aveva tutto questo col personaggio di Winnie Pooh e lo abbiamo ordinato. Quando li ha visti Momi ha fatto un sorrisone e si è messa subito a giocare con la tazza dal beccuccio speciale, ha i manici e un succhietto piatto e contiene 260 cc di liquido cosi lei ha camomilla per tutta la giornata e la beve ogni volta che ha sete. (la foto dove gioca con la bottiglia è stat scattata nel pomeriggio da mamma visto che stamattina ce lo siamo dimenticati).

Happyness

Today we were again at mum's garden, it was cloudy even though Momichan wanted to stay barefeet on the grass for a while, she amuses herself o much, she eally gets crazy about that, can you see ?





(ITALIANO)
Oggi eravamo nel giardino di mamma di nuovo e anche se il tempo non era eccezionale, Momi ha voluto lo stesso stare scalza a sgambettare coi piedini ell'erba, ne va pazza, ride un sacco e si diverte tantissmo ^^

Cookies ^^

Momi does not have teeth yet but even though she likes sometimes to suck a bisquit, a Plasmon one I usually put inside her bottle to melt inside milk ^^

(ITALIANO) Momi non ha ancora nessun dentino ma nonostante ciò a volte si diverte a succhiare i suoi biscottini Plasmon di quelli che le metto nel biberon assieme la latte per merenda e che le piacciono tanto ^^

Present ...

Momichan is growing and now she needs toys to stimulate her senses and coordination so we gave her a special one to be attached to ovetto or crib handle so that she can play without loosing everytime the pelouche like happened last week when she lost her duck inside supermarket and after inside ikea.
Toy she has now is this one, coloured and with tinkling animals and strange and happy sounds.

(ITALIANO)
Momi cresce e ha bisogno adesso di un gioco che stimoli la sua manualità e coordinazione cosi le abbiamo preso questo della Chicco da attaccare al manico del ovetto e della navicella cosi che le non lo perde e non lo può staccare come è successo già due volte coi suoi pelouche (fortunatamente ritrovati)

Felicity Is A Simple Thing ...

For Momichan life is happiness ^^
It is sufficient the soft and fresh grass of my mum's garden and she kicks in the air with her tiny feet and laughs happily. Even if she is still not able to stand and walk, she tries to move feets and try if someone hold her up and if we put her to lay on the grass, she starts to make funny sounds and laughs.

(ITALIANO)
Per Momichan la vita è allegria, a lei è sufficiente l'erba fresca e soffice del giardino di mia mamma sul quale sgambettare felice ^^
Lei adora avere i piedini nudi e sgambettare sull' erba anche se ancora non cammina ci prova puntando le gambette e muovendo i piedini e se la metto sdraiata sul prato lei lancia gridolini estasiati ^^

Bunnies And Ducks ...

In my mum's garden, my sister had some rabbits, a male and a female who a month ago gave birth to 9 little bunnies. The little ones are kept in the cage but the parents are sometimes left go around in the garden to relax. Momichan was curious about them and was staring at the rabbits all the time (they are bigger than her) ^^
To reach mum's house then, we pass a little bridge under which runs some water and there live some ducks and their families ^^

(ITALIANO)
A casa di mia mamma, mia sorella tiene dei conigli, un maschio e uan femmina che di recente hanno avuto 9 coniglietti. I genitori sono spesso sciolti in giardino per rilassarsi fuori dalla gabbia e quando Momo li vede resta a guardarli con molta attenzione.
Per raggiungere casa di mamma attraversiamo sempre una roggia dove scorre l'acqua e dove vivono delle anatre con le loro famigliole e di recente anche loro hanno avuto i pulcini ma è difficilissimo riprenderli coi piccoli.

Little Rascal ^^

We went to the supermarket and we were looking around for discounted items and food when we found a red cap that on Momi would be super, we put on her head and went on when we arrived at the place in which they sold chairs and tables for garden and we found a Winnie Pooh kid chair ... we made a foto ! Momichan was too funny ^^
Here she is ^^

(ITALIANO)
L'altro giorno eravamo al supermecato per la spesa, c'erano dei cibi in offerta e molte cose per bambini superscontate e poi ci siamo messi a girellare per il negozio.
Tra le cose da bimbo c'era un cappellino rosso, lo abbiamo provato a Momichan ed era cosi carina che glielo abbiamo preso, tra l'altro è il suo primo cappello in assoluto ^^
Arrivati ai mobili da esterni c'era una sediolina per bambini con la forma di Winnie Pooh e non abbiamo resistito a fare una foto, tra il cappellino e la posa sembra una monella ^^

Momichan's 5th month day

Hello ^^
Momichan is having a kind of private party for her 5th month and for the occasion I have d