Leisure Time

Momichan loves to go out, park, little train, duckies feeding or simply have a walk. Sometimes she wants to take with her her Hello Kitty sack like this time, full of Kitty's books ^^

Ikea

This afternoon we went to Ikea store, we had to buy for sista a couple of toys she will use for her dog. Momichan as everytime played everywhere and amused so much in jumping on every bed she found. She is so funny, and she was also a little tired because I couldn't put her today to bed for we had so many things to do and I couln't leave her home alone so she was playing on all the ikea beds she found because they are so soft and full of cushions.

You can see her here playing, she is not sleeping really :)

ciao ciao

Kindergarden 6th Day

Today is a special day, Momichan has finally eaten a little with allt he kids :)
The teacher said she was happily sourprised because she thought Momi would not eat anythinbg as the past three days, we were even more happy allthough Momichan has not eaten everything, menu was composed by chicken with tomato salad and a veggie soup with rice, she has eaten half dish of the soup but is a nice start, she is beginning to get accustomed to the place and the kids even if she has understood that mom will not always be present togather with her but will always return ^_^ I am sure tomorrow she will eat a little more food.

Every day menu is different and I saw there are many tasty combinations during the month, every parent can read what kids will eat during the month, entering the kindergarden, a sheet of paper is attached on every room class door.

In theese fotos Momichan is playing ouside the kindergarden where they have a small plastic house with a telephone inside and she is pretending to call granny and tell her something, she was lauging so much :) she loves to play with telephones.

To go home we use the bicycle and Momichan jumped up with daddy, she was happy because he was with us today, she amuses to go with the bike and always want to go fast :) I had given Momi this morning her grey cat and in the foto you can see she is still hugging it, she loves the little cat :)

We will see tomorrow what she will do :)
よくできました　桃ちゃん！

Daddy's B'Day

Today is a special day, because Momi's father has birthday, おたんじょうび　おめでとう　和ちゃん！In the morning as ever we went to kindergarden to take Momichan there.
In the afternoon after the nap we went to the town central plaza to let Momichan go on the little cartoon train, she has also been so good in taking the tail of the cartoon carachter which gave her the chance to make another turn free ^_^
In the foto above, Momichan is giving the ticket to the man owner of the train while the foto under shows Momichan holding the tail, she was really clever, it was the first time she succeeded in taking tha tail, is so difficult for a little child like her :)

After that we went supermarket to buy some food for the special dinner, bday cake we already took in the morning after the kindergarden before coming home.

During all late afternoon Momichan was a little weepy but this evening she was even more. We thought it was for the kindergarden or because of her cold, but it was strange anyway. We noticed she was not moving the right arm and if we tried to hold it up it seemed it hurt her so much, I was very worried so after the meal we had to go hospital First Aid to let a doctor see her. It was already 23.00 pm so I changed Momichan, put her a fresh night nappy and a warm pijama plus her jacket, took a milk bottle and we went out int he night.
We were lucky, doctor was free so gave a look at Momichan immeditaely, the result was she had a luxation at the elbow but the doctor fixed it in a few seconds and she did not have pain any more :) Once again in the car (mum had lended her car to us) I gave Momichan her milk bottle, she drank all and she fall finally asleep, everything went ok.
At home I simply took away the jacket and put Momichant o bed, she neither awakened and she quietly went on sleeping in her comfortable warm little bed.
Strange birthday today but anyway it has beed a special day :)
Happy birthday Sampeichan ^_^

my penguin wan wan bento

I have found and bought on ebay some new bento boxes.

This one is the special bento to take soup with you, it is called "wan wan bento box", you take instant soup and after you add water, I am thinking to use to serve Momichan rice and other foods, is made of plastic so she cannot destroy and is so cute :)

I cannot wait to have the new kitchen, I want to prepare again some bento and make them for Momi to eat when we go out togather :)

I guess she would amuse to have a bento like this one, I have so many items of Winnie Pooh and many accessories too but I bought some other new for Momi to decorate her new future bento.

Kindergarden 2nd Day

Second day at kindergarden :)

In the foto Momi is running inside. Seems she likes it, she likes the children but she has obviously to get accustomed to the new place and to somebody else who is not me who takes care of her when I am not there and I hope she will not have problems.

This morning while she will play, teacher will ask me to leave for a while so I will sit in the entrance of the building until teacher call me back. Every day then I will leave Momichan a little more alone with her new friends and teacher so that she will get accustomed little by little :)

As every day, we go to the kindergarden with the bicycle, Momichan sits rear. When we get out kindergarten I give her a bottle with fruit juice and we go home or park or wherever we need.

Here you can see Momi drinking her juice, she seems a little sleepy and maybe she still is, I wake her up at 8.00 AM now while for all summer she has slept until 10.00 AM and also she has so many novelties alltogather, new friends, teacher, snack at 9.30 AM, lunch at 11.00 instead of 13.00 PM, I hope she will get accustomed soon.

Ciuf Ciufff ....

Little train has arrived again, we didn't expect is a sourprise and Momi is obviously excited. The last time train was here, left in such a hurry that I spared a ticket so I used today.

After kindergarden we went around shopping, we need some other t-shirts and sweater set, then we passed to the chinese restaurant for some food to take away and we went home.

Momichan eated everything then I put her to bed with her milk bottle and in the afternoon we went to the central plaza to go to the train :)

Momichan amused so much, after that I took her in the park, sliders, balances and "molloni", then comig home again we passed to see the duckies and give them bread, Momi loves to see duckies and feed them, now is a fixed appointment :)

Kindergarden 1st Day

Today is 1st day of kindergarden for Momichan, finally we have had OK for her to go there :)

For the next 3 weeks we will go togather just an our or two to get Momichan accustomed to new place and after this period she will stay alone from 9.00 to 13.00 PM

In the foto below Momichan is in the entrance where the are all te spaces to hang dresses and put socks or shoes for inside :)

ciao ciao

Kindergarden :)

(foto just for example)

YEEEEEEE !!!

Finally Momichan has been accepted to kinergarden. Tomorrow morning at 11.00 we have to go to see how we can organize, the teacher called me a couple minutes ago. For the first week teacher and I will be present togather, then I will just stay for one hour and after I will just leave Momichan with the teacher and her new friends.
Guess she will do full time, I will have possibility to start work and will have little time to organize and do the washings, cleanings and normal home works.

Time will be organized like that:

9.30 - all the children will eat fruits and after they will play

11.50 - all children will seat at their tables and tiny chairs to eat lunch

13.00 - everybody will go to the sleeping room furnished will 30 little beds

15.00 - snack time and after play again

Part time is until 13.30 while full time is until 18.00 but I can go and take Momichan after 15.00 if I want so we can play togather and go wherever we want that I am sure she has eaten, slept and played already and also I have done everything I needed so I will be relaxed :)

In this moment that we still do not have kitchen at home I am sure she will eat regularly what she need, menu is showed every morning and also meat and veggies are given to kids first and after noodles if they want so that they do not risk to leave meat ont he dish. Also they will learn to eat veggies soups, they will use spoon and a little plastic mug to drink.
I am happy of all that, Momichan will meet new children and will be more organized and that is what she needs now :)

Walking In The Park

Today coming home after lunch we passed through a park. When I was a child I went to this park nearly everyday riding my bike, it was not like this, there were less trees and no grass, kids amused to go around inside this park with their bikes.
A couple of years ago before Momichan was born, this park has been reorganized, trees has benn planted and grass has been set, now is a wonderful big park all green with a little "forest" some bunnies and a large space to run :)

We love to go there to make pic nics and to play with ball or take sun in summer.

Titeuf

1. The shoes that make "prout"
2. Gradfather worned out
3. First hair

Titeuf (read about the charachter in english) is a 10 years old boy and the cartoon serie which has his name tells about him and his friends and about their way to see life and understand the adults way of thinking. Aboslutely funny :)

Among all cartoons showed on tv I guess this one is nice to show Momichan but as is programmed after midnight I have to record some episodes to show Momichan afterward in the afternoon :)

Tagà - wonder stroller :)

I was reading a kid magazine and all of a sudden I saw a publicity of a strange hybrid stroller/bike whose name is TAGA.

Taga is a wonderful alternative to bike trailer and child seat, you can use it as a bike to take your kid wherever you want and in case you want to enter a store you don't even need to secure it outside with a chain but with a simple movement you can transform it from bike to stroller and take it inside with your kid seated on it, make your shopping and when you get outside again get it transformed into bike again :) WOW

You can also buy a lot of accessories like the raincover stroller mode in case of rain or a windy day, the side bags to have juice, sun canopy, snacks or toys always at the ready, you can attach also a car seat adaptor if your baby is 3 or 5 months and when your kid is too big to use this hybrid you can just take the child seat away and put on the special shopping basket :)

You can choose between four different colours: red, orange, green and sky blue.

Is a netherland product and I saw it is sold everywhere in the north Europe and in the United States, here is not so well known but I found a store in my city.

It can be used until 6 years (35 kilos) I guess is a valid idea and as soon as the kid is too big you can easily change the stroller and put on the collapsable shopping basket. The stroller/bike has also a rucksac you can use to take your belongings and the child items (a change, nappies, a bottle, juices ...)

The price is a little high, around 1400 dollars but I guess it is all worth, someone of you ousite Italy got it ?
I guess is a nice dream to think at, if I could I would buy my baby Momoko everything possible, but I am not my daddy, he had possibility to offer my sister and me when we were small, many things I will never be able to give to my childe; one thing is buying a toy even if money is so short, another is thinking to spend 1400 dollars we do not have, in this moment we have other priorities but is nice to think anyway, in case we are able to realize everything we need can be cute to think at ^_^

Chinese Meal :)

As you know, we do not have a kitchen at home and as it is unconfortable to cook in my mum's kitchen we offently go out to buy some chinese food or a pizza. The restaurant is ok either to eat inside or to buy food to take away, is really tasty and most of all veeeery cheap :)
I always order a noodles or rice dish and a portion of meat with veggies and with something like 5.00 euro Momichan and I can eat. In the evening Momichan is eating rice, veggies and fish prepared with a special ricecooker or if I want a pasta I share with her, sometimes mum is cooking for everybody but most of all we eat alone.
Today instead of buying food and going home we stopped at the restaurant, sometimes we do expecially if it is a bad day and I am worried for something like today.
I ordered chicken with ananas, veggies of the day, rice noodles with veggies and fried chinese bread (I love it !, you can see it in the second foto below near Momichan).
Momichan had nearly entire chicken, she eated all, I had the veggies dish and nearly half dish of noodles.

Like everytime after lunch or dinner Momichan had her milk bottle too while I was calmly drinking my coffee.

I am really sourprised about Momichan good behaviour inside restaurants, guess here she feels like home, she eats well and waiters and waitresses love her much, Momichan is calm, she plays, walks around but she's never nasty, she never bother anybody, she is incredible :)

Park

After "Pakki" we visit the kids area where Momichan can use slides and meet other kids.

Today there is noboy so after a while we go home, I want to show Momichan a cartoon film of Hello Kitty, I know she will gett crazy about it.

Along the street Momichan stops everyhouse to peep inside the gardens, in one she sees a big puffy cat (our Felix is recently disappeared, one day he is not come back home to have his lunch and since a couple of weeks we do not know where he is).

Momichan loved our stupid fluffy cat and everytime she sees a cat she stops and tries to caress it, but same she does whenever she sees a dog :) We are nearly home now, air is still warm and smells of some sweet flowers, the trees in our street are still covered by fucsia tiny flowers and sometimes we can see some butterflies :)

Time to prepare dinner, after which Momichan will have a shower, a fresh nappy and a pijama, we will read a story, milk bottle and a soft blanket and she will be ready to dream :)

I "Pakki" ....

As nearly everyday we are going to the chinese restaurant to buy something to eat for lunch. Weather is crazy, cold and windy and after a few moments again terribly hot ... bah, now is cold so I put Momichan a warm jacket, she also want to wear a berret and of course her Hello Kitty bag with all her toys inside :)
When I buy food from the chinese I am sure Momichan will eat, she loves the chicken (with ananas, bamboo and veggies, grille with veggies, we take everytime in a different way and we add a portion of rice or rice noodles with veggies, she always eat everything happily). Having no kitchen at home is starting to be a big problem, I am quite fed up of goig out to eat and never have possibility to have a coffee on my own, cooking in my mum's kitchen is not confortable at all.

"Pakki" is a new word Momichan is saying recently, she refers to "paperotti" that means "little duckies", she is so funny when she says, "pakki pakki, siiiiiiiiiiiii !!!"" everytime I ask her "what you want to do now, we go to see little duckies ?"

We always go around whenever we go out of home, with a bag full of hard bread that we give to duckies, today we counted 32 between females, males and little ones, Momichan was shouting, "pakki, pakki!" all enchanted :)

Here you see some of them :)

ciao ciao

Ikea Cake ...

Momichan is already sleeping and for once Sampei and I have a moment of relax before sleeping, i have bought a box of mini Princess cakes from Ikea and we eat them inside chinese bowls (we still do not have any dishes, just a few mugs and theese bowls we bought in chinatown a montha ago or so)

Good night everybody ! さようなら、またあした！お休みなさい！

Rain ;)

Today is raining in Milan but we have to go out because I have an appointment to have my hair cut so I dress Momichan with her raincoat, hat and gummy boots :)

While walking pulling the stroller I give Momichan her bottle with juice. When we arrive shop is empty, no clients apart me so Momichan can seat wherever she wants and look the hairdresser cut my hair. She is so curious and look with much attention everything the hairdresser does and when finally hair cut is finished Momichan looks at me with a big smile ^^

Painting

Since a few days I am trying to teach Momichan to use colours and for that purpose I have bought at Ikea a set of items composed by a long drawing paper roll, three apron (blue, green and red), felt tip pen stamp, whiteboard pen, complete paint box, a box to contain all pens, pastels and everything and a painter support :)
She likes so much to draw, love te colour blue and laughs so much while she is creating ^^

As soon as she will be bigger I will give her also painbrushes and watercolours ;) but I guess I will have to set some washable rug under the painter support and look after her so that she will not put watercolours allover :))

Going Ikea :)

Foto 1 - you can see Momichan at our usual bus stop.

Whenever we want to have snack or play Momichan and I go to Ikea store :)
She likes it so much and everytime she amuses playing in the various displays as if it were her own home. She is crazy abouf soft sofa, cushions, soft beds and hairy carpets :)

Foto 2 - Momichan at Ikea store on a soft sofa

The thing she likes most is a small wooden kitchen equipped with microwave oven, sink, fridge and cupboard, I want to buy her for her birthday in november hoping that for that time we too will have our kitchen :)
Momichan already has her coffee set, glasses, tools, pots and pans, veggies basket, fruit basket, breakfast set, dessert set, some of them I have hided to give her for some special occasion and I have still to equip her future kitchen with the dishes set. Luckily we have moquette so even if something falls down will not break :)

Momichan can play with her daddy pretending to cook dinner for us, (daddy will teach her), I will provide her kitchen with towel and brush to wash her dishes and also some decorations to use to grab pans when playing Momichan will imagine they are hot like real ones :)
When she will be bigger, I will teach her how to decorate muffins or small cakes and for that also we will use all cake items from Ikea store ^^
さようなら！