Going Around With Mum

After the nap Momichan and I go out for a walk.
Today I am lucky, she was tired enough to take her usual nap, recently she doesn't want to sleep in the afternoon.
Temperature is around 28 degrees, Momichan is dressed light and she wears her orange sandals shoes, she always want to wear them guess she likes so much but I think is the worst purchase ever because they are so long and narrow.

Before going out she takes her Barbapapà sac and a speaking game.
(in Japan the cartoon series Barbapapà has a great success, バーバパパ 世界をまわる, Baabapapa sekai wo mawaru).

As it is so hot we go to a coffee shop to buy some ice cream and as you see from the fotos Momichan is enthuisiastic at the idea of going to take some ice even if when she has the ice in her hands she makes strange a nd funny faces and starts to eat.

After she has finished her ice cream we decide to go to the park, in this moment there are not so many children so Momichan can go everywhere she wants without waiting her turn and she amuses so much.

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ciao ciao

Knees ...

Momichan is running fast now but she is still not really good so sometimes she puts feet in the wrong way and she falls down. As theese days seems summer is finally coming and during the day is really hot, she wears fresh summer dresses that are short and leave her legs nude, the result is that if she fall down she scratches her knees, now Momichan has her first marks on both knees ^^

Here are Momichan's knees this morning after the fall yesterday ^^

Full Day ....

Hello ^^
As you know we are starting to organize the moving to my mum's house but we have to face some problems, make some shopping for the new house and arrange everything.
This morning we had to go granny's house because our new bathtub was arriving, in the bathroom there is a shower now but we have to change to be more confortable, (first foto you can see Momichan at the departure from home this morning, second foto, she is walking in the street in front of granny's house). While waiting for the bathtub to be consigned we took some measurements for furniture and accessories and we discovered that our washmashine does not enter in the bathroom because the door is too narrow ........... ARRRGGGGHHH ! door is large 55 cm and washmashine is 59 !!!!! ......... we have to buy a new washmashine no other solution ..........

Weather is so hot today so I took with us some dress changes for Momichan so that she can play in granny's garden in absolut comfort.

After the bathtub has arrived, we prepare lunch and Momichan plays in the garden with daddy. After lunch daddy will go to work and Momi and I will go around for info-shopping, we have to go search a new washmashine, we need a wash and dryer one alltogather in less than 55 cm of space, there is a electronic store near us, mum says she has seen an announce on a publicity sheet about exactly the type we could buy, so we go there and after we have to go Ikea store to search for other items, check prices of ovens, fridge to be stored in a cabinet and microwaves. Momichan will play around in the kids corner as always and we will have a yummy snack :)

After our info-shopping we come back granny's house, it is still sunny althought is nearly seven thirty, Momichan can play in the garden a little while before returning home and I can have some rest, I am totally exausted while Momichan is full of energies :) but she has not take the nap as usual so she will be tired soon. Incredibly temperature is still around 30 degrees. Momichan is jumping here and there, running everywhere and playing with her cups and tools pretending to cook for an immaginary friend. The grass in the garden has been cut and she seems lo like as the garden look like now.

There is still light but already is eight o'clock so Momichan and I have to go home to prepare dinner, if everything goes the right way without too many bad sourprises, in less than one month we could be there and for dinner time I would just climb up the ladder to go .... home while my mum prepares dinner I would wash my baby and prepare for sleep ^^

Small Lady ...

Last week Momichn ad I went to the weekly outside market along the street at the center of the town, I discovered Momi likes it, she looks at the fruits and veggies of various colours and smells, she looks at the dresses and flowers, she gets crazy for the fishes and the seeds, she amuses herself so much ever :)

There was a man selling shirts and special scarves, I bought two, one azure flowered for me and one lilac for Momi. The scarf is strange, made of a transparent soft and thin piece of cotton, lilac in colour with flowers, I can transform it for my baby in whatever I want, scarf, tiny dress, turban, depends from my fantasy :)
The day I bought I wrapped a kind of hat on Momichan's head and she loved it, this time I just hanged it on her shoulders same way you can do when you are dressed to go out for a dance night in an elegant place and Momichan seems an elegant tiny lady :)

A Special Day, Corn Powder, Box And Fun ...

Today Momichan is exactly 18 months old, 1 year and a half ! YEEEEEEEEE

As it is a special day I decided to take her to the chinese restaurant, Momichan smiled happi8ly at the idea. I ordered some white rice, meat grilled gyoza, chicken with bamboo and mushrooms, chinese spaguetti with veggies and Momichan eated everything, chicken was tender and tasty, she loves white rice and the interior of gyoza, she just eats the filling HEHE, we used only chopsticks she is enchanted by sticks :)

After the meal I ordered a coffee for me and for her I cleaned her bottle from the rest of the juice that was still inside and made it be filled with milk (hoping she would take a nap after in her stroller but no, she was too enthusiastic by the sunny day ..... ).

We went to the park for a while and she amused herself so much then we went to my mum and I organized a new game for Momi. I had bought some days ago a transparent plastic box, 80 cm large and just 20 cm high, filled it with corn flour and some cups and put Momichan inside.

She went crazy, started to touch the flour and play with the cups pouring it everywhere smiling, then I told her that when people go to seaside they walk on the shore, shore is made of sand and has a different colour from the flour but mostly feeling is the same walking on it if sand is thin so I took her the shoes away and left her bare feet to let her walk over the flour, she amused so much and started to walk inside the box feeling the sensation of the bare feet of the flour, she was so funny ^^

then started to walk on the fresh grass of the garden shouting happily for the strange effect then she started to run around enthusiastic ^^

We played hide and seek and played with the soccer ball, ran everywhere in the garden and played with the flour. There was still light but it was already 19.40 so we said hallo to granny and we started to return home.
Momichan runned everywhere, seemed not tired at all but I knew she was because since a couple of week she is refusing to take the usual nap after lunch. As soon as we got home I prepared her dinner and she started to become a little nervous, she was tired :) I showered her, put a fresh nappie and pijama, gave her milk and put her to bed. I gave her her pelouche cat to hug, covered her with a soft blanket and gave her a kiss then went to make shower, just the time to wash and get dried, entering the bedroom and getting near her bed to see the has deeply fallen asleep exactly in the same position I left her a few minutes before :)
She is so sweet :)

New Kitchen Ikea ....

Ikea - Momichan is happily playing in a little representation of a tiny house, more or less the space we will have in short time, she loves this little space, for her is like a llittle doll house for her.
There is a living room-kitchen, an entrance, a bedroom and a bathroom

As you probably know, we are trying to move in a new house, my mum's house, upper floor, she doesn not uses it and she lives alone.
Things are going slow beacuse we need so many permissions and this takes time, for this reason we will have the possibility to enlarge the little house and have the kitchen only in october, that means we will stay all the summer without it but anyhow we are making plans on how it will be.
I decided, as the kitchen will be on a corner of the living room and will be only 3 meters long plus a little 90 cm, that it will be composed by 5 blocks of 60 cm plus a corner piece of 90 cm and the fridge, colour will be dark brown solid pine and except for a pair of particular, more or less our kitchen will be like this one :)

On the extreme left side they inserted a fridge, we will have the washmashine, fridge will be on the right side after the oven and between oven and fridge there will be a corner base cabinet with carousel for pots and pans.

All the upper cabinets will be 60 x 90cm except the one over the gas cooktop which will measure 60 x 70cm to hook the exaust hood and again the cabinet on the right side will be a corner one with carousel inside.

We will provide each drawer with protections for kids so as not to let Momichan open them by chance or purpose and other protections will be attached to the other doors. I will let the corner cabinet without so that Momichan will have possibility to look inside, our pots and pans are not dangerous and are similar to the ones she has to play :) she loves to look inside cabinets and help me emptying the wasmashine.

Rain Boots ...

In Milan is continuously raining so the best thing is to buy a pair of rain boots for Momichan, we do not have but is not a problem, for Momichan having feet dry and not submnerged by water is more important so we went to a superstore yesterday and bought the cutest pink water drop decorated pair of little gum rain boot :)

When Momichan saw them smiled happily and today she put on to go out as time was not so nice.