French Markets

These three days (friday, saturday and sunday) in our little town there is a little french market, expositions of wines, crispy breads "baguettes", "pain au chocolat" and patiserie, soap, spices, jewels, napkins, cheese, salami and much more coming from Bretagne the side of France in the north west.
Walking through is exactly like being there, the tipical smell of the soaps (lime, lemon, pompelmuss, jasmin, lavender and thousand more) the spices and precious salt fill the air of the tipical odour you can feel going there; the dozn cheese from cow, goat and sheeps are wonderful to taste, apple cider and wines, goose patè and the crispy "baguettes" you can buy warm cooked uner your eyes, the tipical french bread are in the air making everyone run to buy some ^^

We bought some baguettes and pain au chocolat, (image on the left) some cheese, a pair of typical towels round and with the image of lavender and the word "bretagne" on it, we will use one fot the kitchen and one for Momochan, a napkin for the new house and a pair of soap.

Seems nothing particular but the soap you can buy in France and in theese markets have a particular smell that only french soap have, they sell many types, olive, flowers scent, fruits scent (lemon, lime, pompelmuss, ...), wherever you walk in France expecially at seaside places the smell you will ever remember are jut a few: a mix of lavender, honey and wax, soap, garlic and butter, and the crispy smell of baguettes. I have never found a place in which you can remember so particular smell, thinking of Italy or any of the european country, I cannot think at nothing particular.

Momichan walked around curious followed by daddy and me attracted by the coloured spices, curry, mixtures for spaghetti, strange salts (there was one pink with petals of tiny roses and another completely black with great cristals) peppers, mixtures of tea, the smell of the soaps and the coloured and smelly straw bags and hats, she ran and jumped here and there happy to taste fresh baguette and tiny pieces of cheese, we bought some brioche for breakfast and she tasted with us, lovely taste of butter and chocolate that melts in your mouth, we also bought a baguette and a piece of chese for mum and we went to her house to give her before coming home for lunch.

Strangely and luckily, Momichan despite all pieces of cheese and bread was hungry enough to eat her piece of roasted meat and brussel sprouts (I had put in the oven before going out this morning and programmed so that the oven cooked while we were out, oh what a wonderful invention !) 

After the meal I gave her her little milk bottle, dressed her with her sleep bag and put to bed, she fall asleep immediately.

Cute about this, is that this i the first year but the french sellers said they all will come back next year ! WEEEEEEE so we will have possibility to buy again french foods and some other cute things ^^
As they say then, " a bientot" :)

Japanese Baby Food

I have always been curious about what japanese babies eat during weaning and so I have made some research on the web. We found theese images, I wonder if in case I would cook exactly the same food Momichan would eat. If you want to see other foods just click on this site ^^

Recently Momichan is not eating so much and everytime is lunch o dinner time is an agony, luckily she still has her nap after lunch time from 2.00 until 4.00 PM sometimes, normally she just sleeps one hour.

Theese foods seems deliciuos and complete, Momichan does not eat veggies at the moment and I do not know what to invent to make her eat something good and healthy, she just loves plain hot dogs and ham burgers, no pasta but just white rice sometimes and of course her rice crackers by Hipp.

ciao ciao

The Crocodile

A few days ago arrived a book for Momichan with a sourprise: a inflatable gummy crocodile ! You know, the ones that you blow air inside and use at the sea side between the waves, well Momichan uses it in the bathtub. She amuses herself so much and after she goes to bed and sleeps so well, guess she dreams about the croco and the bathtub, sometimes she laughs ^^

Sunglasses

Momichan now own a pair of sunglasses.

A pair of weeks ago we were at Chicco Store and there were discounts so thinking of a future travel this summer to the sea side we thought it was best for Momichan to have a pair of sun glasses so that she can save her little eyes from the sun rays and here she is today wearing glasses at home for the first time. She was funny, she looked at herself into the mirror and laughed.

Unfortunately when we gout of house sun has gone away so we could not use the glasses but Momichan did not seem to care about.

We went to granny and Momi walked everywhere, she amuses walking up the stairs, guess as soon as she will live there she will get crazy about as she will haveto do every day two times or more a day.

Pogy

Since she was 7 months old Momichan I have stopped using the Pogy crib because she loves it but it is impossible to keep her inside as she loves to roll out instantly. This is the reason why I did not use it anymore, everytime I wanted to put Momi to bed she started to laugh and play so I had to put away and use her normal bed also for the after lunch nap.

This days I got the Pogy out because when I put Momi to bed, (she has some pelouches to play inside her bed before falling asleep), she has taken the abitude of throwing them all out on the pavement and tis get me to nerves also I have cnstantly to collect them to put in the bed again searching them for all the room so I use the Pogy for her toys, I put it in the middle of her and my bed so that if she wants, she can throw toys inside and now we do not have problems anymore, she loves it and throws toys only inside it but, this is magic, since I use the Pogyfor this, she has nearly stopped to throw things outside the bed ! WOW !
During the day the Pogy stays near the closet and recently she loves to get inside and play with her toys, she is so funny.

ciao ciao

Countdown ...

Finally countdown has started to begin the works for the new house and we have started to search the best prices for electricians, windows, furniture and others. We have to check when actually works can start and if we have all permissions, then we will have to coordinate the various technicians and hope they can do the job in short time.

The idea is to trasform the upper part of mum's house in a small apartment enlarging it including one of the two existing balconies transforming it from 35 to 45 square meters. The upper part now is composed by a small bathroom and two bedrooms my sista and I used when we ere living with parents.

House will be so small but lovely and precious like a jewel, we will have to buy from Ikea bathroom furniture, the kitchen, a cupboard for shoes and night table for the sleeping room. All pavements will be covered by moquette so that I will not have to wash every day and will spare a lot of time, there will be a sleeping room we will use for us and Momichan and after for Momichan alone when she will be bigger, a bathroom and a living room/kitchen/bedroom thanks to our sleeping sofa.

We have already contacted some friends who have made a project and have given us some prices and best of all, have accept to be paid long term in small rates, now we just have to wait until first week of march hoping works can start immediately, incase with a little bit of luck we will have possibilityto move with our old furiniture before middle april ... just cross fingers .... just cross fingers ....

Carnevale

In Italy soon will be Carnival but already kids are going around with their costumes of various carachters.

We have two costumes for Momichan, one of them, Pikachu, has been sent from granny from Japan.

Here is Momichan with the Lion King one.

Momichan is happy when she can dress like Lion King or Pikachu, so happy that she never want to take the costume away HAHA especially Pikachu.

Theese days here s snowing and is really cold but Momichan amuses so much in taking a walk and observing the snow not much convinced about what it is and the use she can do, she loves catching the flakes falling and every night befor sleeping she wants to look outside the window to see if other snow is coming.

 またね！

Momichan And Snow

This morning Momichan and I went to the supermarket and as yesterday was snowing, today everythin g was covered by a soft mantle of snow. Momichan was curious about but she walked slowly as to prove the snow under her shoes, she also fall and touched the soft and cold snow.

In Milan Is Snowing !

This morning we got up with a sourprise: it was snowing and snow was littl by little covering everywhere with white soft cold flakes. We had to go out so we dressed warm and put Momichan a warm and soft feather jacket and a plastic rain berret so that she was perfect.

After lunch, poor daddy went to work with the bicicle as ever thought it was still snowing hard.

At 16.40 PM Momichan is still sleeping and snow is still coming down very hard, flakes are enormous, I think we will stay home and play, we will go to giostra tomorrow.

Elk

Momichan wakes up in the morning and gets down from the bed by herself, knocks at the room door to make us understand she wants to go out in the livingroom and once there she seats on her Ikea elk and bounce ^^

ciao ciao

Allerhand Combi Cooler

The Allerhand Combi Cooler is a supercute light bag to carry your essentials and of course a pair of nappies, cream and towel and a complete set of food ad snacks for all day long inside the special thermo pocket, perfect to go to the park being sure to have something to change your baby, his foods, your handy, keys and ... coins for your coffee ? HAHA

For us is a superbag we can use to go to park 30 meters near home when is not necessary to take other stuff and carry normal heavy baby bag. This Combi Cooler I can hang to the stroller or in case we just have a small walk, just hold in one hand or or my shoulder, we have all we need for a afternoon ouside but near home ^^
(foto on the left side is the Park near home last april 2008, Momichan was so little and she was sleeping in her crib but now she walks so fast)

Going Ikea

Somedtimes when we are all togather we go visit Ikea store and sometimes we eat there. Momichan always amuses going there, she is curious and loves to play wherever she is, jumping here and there and using all toys exactly as home.

Also she likes to have snack sometimes with wiener hot dog, she gets crazy about, I take swedish coffe and eventually  piece of cake and she eats an hot dog all by herself  ^^

Here she is playing "hide and seek" hiding in a TROFAST cupboard near her father.