Mini Holiday

In those days instead of remaining home we have moved to mum's house for a little so yesterday we went Ikea and supermarket to buy the necessary items we need for Momichan , we have bought copies of what we have home such as the Sniglar changing table, babycare mat and two covers, baskets and boxes to store nappies, bibs, creams, nappies, washcloths, pillow for camping cot, a thick soft blanket and sleeping bag, a red eating set, (the one Momi is using in the foto above), the highchair (eveytime we go to mum's house to eat Momi did not have where to seat so we had to make her seat on our knees and eating was pretty difficult for both). Momi is happy to eat at the same table with us, this highchair does not have the tray so she can sit the same as we do and have her dishes directly on the table) with her little dishes and special cup, at home she has the same highchair in white with tray but she does not like to sit inde, here she loves instead.

We also went to the supermarket to buy shower gel, nappies cream, body cream, nappies, some juices and milk for the night plus some baby pasta we can leave to mum so that we do not have everytime to take with us whenever we want to stop for the night.

Also Momi likes to explore and up to now she is already able to go up to he stairs and to come down alone and walk everywhere quite quick, she eats by herself some foods like ham, peas, meatballs and everything she like and she makes happy yells everytime ^^

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 ^O^

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 while 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

Between the Ikea Family items, this year has appeared a couple of bags, one normal made to carry your personal belongings and laptop and the other exactly the same but bigger, to use as week end bag.
The enormous UPPTÄCKA bag you can find in pink, green or black measures more than 55 cm.

This big version is quite heavy once filled with things but can be very useful if you have to travel and you take your baby with you so you can store for exampe: 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 is provided by four little gummies that will keep the bag clean.

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The smaller UPPTÄCKA version is made to carry a small laptop but can be used as normal bag either or to carry your baby items for the day, can be easily hooked at the stroller, I like it so much.
Also this bag you can find in black, pink or green

Measures: length 45 cm - large 13 cm - high 35 cm

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