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 ^^



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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 ^^

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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.

first time in a museum

We came back from the mountains on monday and after an entire week with fresh air and super nap time 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 Civic Acquarium and so we went. I have taken the light strolley and a rucksack with everything I could need for Momichan (bottle, dummy, a change of dresses, nappies) and we are already on the way.

It has been 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), though Momichan is so small, she is astonished and curious about all the tipes of fishes and animals and shout happily amused pointing at all the fishes swimming inside the pools.

Momichan like so much the tropical pool with so many colooured fishes, star fishes, sea weeds, corals and strange animals but also she is fascinated by the jelly fish :)

After the Civic Aquarium we thought as we were in the nearby, 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. The foto on the right shows two giant crabs from the Japan sea, the male is the biggest one and seeing it inside the museum crab is really enormous
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 ^^



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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 :-)

crescita di Momo

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

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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 ^^