*** 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 ^^

Ryuki, my nephew

As you probably know, Momichan has a cousin, his name is 琉絆 (Ryuki)) and he is now 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 their honeymoon ^^
Foto on the right is Ryuki the day of his birth 6 january 2009, foto on the left 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