kindergarden shopping ...

Next tuesday Momochan will start kindergarden so as he daddy theese two days is home relaxing, we have to go for some shopping.

Children have been divided by colour instead of sections, there is light blue, orange, green, red and yellow, Momochan is the orange class so we need to go Ikea to buy three little orange towels, we have to meet with a friend at 18.00 who will give us three orange bags and two orange collars and we have to buy two white apron.

Once home and before tuesday I will have to iron on every item some iron-on patches which Momochan will easily recognize and also I will have to write down her name on everything with a special pen. The character Momo has chosen is Lighting McQueen ^^

One of the bags will contain a pillow for the sleeping time after lunch, second bag will contain some complete dress changes (three) and the third will contain cup, towel and three bibs.
ciao ciao

daddy's b'day !

Daddy is having birthday the 27 but as he is not free from work we celebrate today !
As every celebration or bday we have ordered the special cake to our preferred bar and this morning we had gone alltogather Momichan, Sampei and me to have breakfast and take the cake, a strawberry cream cake with a special writing on it "auguri papà" ^O^
We have invited granny and Sampei is cooking a special meal. Momichan is all excited, for the occasion she has taken out our three special caps cake shaped and we all wear them singing "happy birthday to you" including granny ^^

Momichan has her own plate with special meal prepared by daddy and she eats all. Granny has taken as a present a bottle of champagne that we all drink eating the cake ^^

ciao ciao

Natural Sciences Museum

Sampei today is free at home so we have decided to take Momichan to the Natural Sciences Museum to see animals, dynosaurs and stones.

In Milan now there is a strange parade: the indian elephant parade made to raise money to save this animal and for this reason all corners of the city are invaded by funny and coloured elephants that you can buy if you want in a small shape at Rinascente (a great store for perfumes, dresses, kitchen item and more in the center of the city).

Here is Momichan near a red butterflied elephant.

After having taken many fotos with every elephant outside the museum we get finally inside to see the animals.

One of the first thing you can see at the ground floor are stones, stalagmitis and calcitis, then at the second and third floor you can admire animals inside diorama of their habitat and many other animals inside glass displays, butterflies, insects, shells, fishes and a tons of other animals of any kind. Momichan is enchanted by all of this and loves the triceratops in the first hall, she touches the bones of the other dyno skeletons and asks if they eated veggies or meat, looks around carefoully everything and runs everywhere telling us "hey mummy look, a monkey, a bear, a tiger ..." !

Also coming inside in a room and looking up there is a giant skeleton of a whale and Momi is very much impressed.

There are so many things to see there that one hour is not enough and when you get down to exit there is a shop selling animal books and plastic reproductions of dynos, elephants, tigers and all you can see inside the museum plus puzzles and tshirts and all you can imagine, also there are many glass displays with fishes of every kind inside and Momi makes her own fotographs HEHE
After museum we got a walk towards the center and see shops.

Time for dinner comes quick, daddy wants to eat there and go to the cinema, Momichan wants to see the Smurfs, the new film in Milan, for me is everything ok, Momichan is really a good kid inside cinema, she follows the story without making mess and she amuses so much.
We take some sandwiches and we enter inside cinema. The film is really enchanting and when we get out we buy Momichan a small smurf: Puffetta. She is happy but so tired, we direct to the car and in a few moments while daddy is driving home she fall asleep in her car seat ^^

The Smurfs (film 2011)

When the nasty magician Gargamella follows the Smurfs forcing them outside their village, from their magic world they fall into our in the middle of Central Park ! They have to find a way to come back home before Gargamella catches them. At 19.45 Momichan and us were inside the cinema watching the movie in 3D, Momichan stayed calm and interested all the time and amused very much also if there was no breack between first and second half of the film. We bought her the small plastic characther of Puffetta and she smiled happily at the idea to take home one of the charachters ^^
ciao ciao

hair cut

Momichan needs again an hair cut, she tells me she needs because her hair are too long and keep too much hot ! HAHAHA

Last week we has reserved for today at 16.00 so before daddy leaves for work we ask him to leave us money to go hair dresser in the afternoon.

Momichan is happy because she cannot wait anymore to have her hair cut, she likes to appear beautiful and recently she also want me to put on her lips my brilliant transparent gloss, she says it is full of stars because it gleams HAHAHA

At 16.00 o'clock I wake her up and we go down, hairdresser is just at the ground floor of our building and is waiting for us (we live in a big building and just in front in the same space there are some little shops, a coffee, hairdresser and more).

The owner herself makes Momochan seat on a chair and starts to cut her hair, Momichan is excited but carefoul, she doesn't dare to move not to be cut somewhere.

After the cut she admires herself in the mirror but asks if she can have her hair washed because she sais, in this way hair are more fresh ! HAHAHA The hairdresser asks Momochan is she likes her hair now and she says "thanks for my haircut, now I'm so beautiful" HAHAHA what ba funny baby I have !

ciao ciao

junior chair ...

So much time ago I bought the highchair for Momichan, a white one, light but very stable with tray so that baby Momichan could play and learn how to use spoons and dishes, fork and cup. The blue penguin cup togather with the bubble blue dish were the first items I bought for Momichan for eating time and is one of the older she has, the plastic green bib in the photo has been bought short afterwards and has become very useful in time, she is using it still now and she has one also in red, it is part of a set composed by cup with lid, plate, spoon and bib.

Many other eating sets have been bought after to be changed every meal and stimulate Momi to recognize colours and shapes but I guess the black penguin cup with his blue berret is her preferred. Time has passed by and baby Momichan has turned into a small kid, highchair has become too small and unconfortable to seat inside so this morning we have gone to Ikea store and bought a junior chair, Momichan chosed tis one in a brilliant green colour, she loves it ! Once home she has wanted to dcorate it with adhesifs of Tinkerbell and now she loves to climb on it every time is eating time, she comes into the kitchen, opens her drawer, takes out her dishes, tools and cups and prepares her things on the table then climb up her chair and laughs so much, she is so sweet really, she also likes to take her puzzles with her and display on the table and play while I finish preparing her food ^^

sayounara ^^

Livigno ^___^

This morning we are living for Livigno, daddy is free from work and so we have opportunity to go. We have taken our small fridge and filled with sandwiches and water, Momi has her rucksack with books and toys and a giant bag with two changes, milk bottle and more. She is so excited to go somewhere with both parents and she sings a song in japanese for the occasion.

Before arriving in Livigno, in the city of Chiuro Sondrio there is a pit stop we have to do: there is a special store selling apples apple vinegar and apple juice, everywhere here all around there are cultivations of apples, small and red or bigger and yellow, perfect to eat as they are or transform into the best apple pie ever depending on the tipe of fruit. We always stop there to buy 5 or more kilos of apples and 6 bottles of fresh apple juice, just pure apple juice with nothing more inside. This juice can be used pure or added to make some tasty drinks or fruits salads.

We stop eating the sandwiches and soon after we reach the mountains, temperature is lower here, instead of 28 degreed of Milan here is 15 ! WOW

Arrived in Livigno first thing we do is fill the gasoline tank of the car, here fuel cost less. Momichan looks outside the window and shouts happily because is full of horses eating grass in the fields all around the city, just a few kilometers before she had seen black and white cows doing the same thing around the mountains beside the street.

There is something we have to do quick, Momichan has dirtied every change of sweaters I had taken for her so we need to find a kid store and buy her a pair of sweater pants, she only wears tshirt, sweater and nappy.

After having found a Benetton store and a cute pair of pants for a discounted low price we direct to our preferred coffe shop near the supermarket where we always buy chokolate and we sit to take a coffee and a piece of cake YUM YUM. Inside this place is so cute, the coffee shop side is lighted by enormous windows, everything is made of wood, on the top there are straw stuffed animals (foxes, squirrels and deers) and tables are made of wooden trunks (see foto) and some of the walls are made of stones, the effect is a cozy place in which have a pit stop to eat or drink something and look ouside ^___^
After shopping just outside (chokolate bars, bresaola, some cheese....) is time to go dinner. The restaurant Rosengarden is one hour away from Livigno. Momichan is really hungry, she eats an entire cotoletta with fries and tastes some of bresaola and deer salami we have ordered.

Outside now temperature is just 9 degrees but Momichan has her new feather jacket, once in the car she soon fall asleep, we have still to drive for long time, we will be home late in the night and Momi needs to sleep. Good night sweetie ^___^

daddy is home ^^

Luckily rain has stopped, Sampei has called from the restaurant in Milan, he has arrived but has to work in the evening, we can go take him up so we can eat togather, go supermarket (we need milk for Momichan), relax and have a nap ....

Momichan is so happy, she has also a present for daddy, an envelope contains a fish recipees book, a spiral notebook to write down his personal recipees and a image deisgned by Momi for daddy ^___^ As soon as we get restaurant and she sees daddy she gives him his present "daddy, for you" !

Daddy is dark skinned, after two months he is tanned, and ... oh ... a little round ;-P one or two kilos more HAHAHA he is happy to see us but so tired so we get into the car immediately, put his sacs and things inside the car and drive away, well he drives, me for once in two months time is sitting beside relaxing a little ;-) Momichan in her car seat behibd daddy is singing in japanese a song she has learned for this day and she is really jouzu ^^

Daddy says "onaka suita" (I'm hungry), my stomach is also making strange noises, is lunch time so we decide to go to the chinese restaurant near our home, Momi is enthusiastic because she loves chinese pasta and chiken the way they cook and she really eats a lot, an entire portion !!!

A quick jump to the supermarket, we have to make some shopping, milk and some veggies, yogurt and more. Once home I organize everything and put away the variuous items, prepare the milk bottle for Momi while daddy is making a shower.

Our big bed with soft blankets is inviting, Momi wants to sleep with daddy so both of them jump on the bed, I put on them a soft plaid and tey both fall asleep ^^

sayounara ^___^

rain ....

Momichan's daddy is coming, he is togather with his collegues, somewhere driving along the highway between Livorno and Milano, we cannot reach him because he has the cell phone off. Here has started to rain hard, what a horrible morning ! I wanted to take a walk to relax a little while waiting news but now it is impossible to get out ! GOSH !!!

daddy is coming back ^^

From the passed 28th june much time has gone, finally Momichan's daddy is coming back home, probably we will go to take him up at the restaurant in Milan tomorrow evening ^^

He and his mates will leave from Porto Cervo maybe tomorrow morning, take the ferry boat to Genova and after drive on with the car until Milano city. A big truck will follow in a few days with all the rest of the restaurant items and most of the suitcases of the guys (there is no space enough in the car for everybody's properties).

Guess Momichan will be excited to see her daddy after two entire months but we have had our good time and we have amused visiting many places and done many things, civic aquarium in Milan, seaside at oncle house, plastic swimmpool, bubble sword, acquarium in Genova, new park, also she has grown up so much and is able now to open the fridge and take what she needs, she is able to sing in japanese her favourite Totoro songs, follow an entire story in her books and much more. Will her daddy still recognize her ? HAHAHA ! ;-P

This is a sashimi dish Sampei has prepared, he has also learned many things, how to improve his cooking way and how to prepare and serve at his best dishes like this one ^^

starfish and crab bento

Starfish and crab bento, inserito originariamente da luckysundae.

Another delicious bento prepared by Luckysundae ^___^
I love this bento, I will make something similar for Momichan even if not a real bento because is of use at home but I will make some decorations on her evening meal ^^

new playing park

This evening thanks to a friend, we have gone to another park to play. This one is cleaner and best organized with many attractions for kids, sliders, balances, towers, suspension bridges, all in perfect status, not ruined like the one we have here in our little town.

The park is just near us but we need the car, 10 minutes and we arrive in the nearby little town. The park is well organized and clean, grass is cut short, no trash around, no insects, drinking fountains here and there and is really enormous.

Momichan and the other two kids arrived with us are enthusiast, Momi starts climbing here and there following them not even frightened by the eights of the towers which is not accustomed, she follows the two kids everywhere with no problem.

Park is organized into three sections, on e for babies with special balances, lower sliders and "molloni" (how do you call the things you see here in the foto ?), the other sections are for bigger kids, with towers and higher sliders, other balances and a big space to play soccer or skate. Also there are pink asphalt paths going everywhere to run with the bicicle or skate.
It is also possible to make designs with coloured chalks on the soft pavement near the towers (first rain will cancel everything) so the kids amuse themself to make butterfly pictures, jellyfish, duks and more and Momichan too asks for a pair ow pink and blue chalks and statrs to decorate the path here and there.
When you amuse yourself time flows quick, so in a short time is already the moment to go home, is nearly eight o'clock !!! We take all our toys and we direct to the cars, a short "hello" and we are already home for dinner. Momichan is tired, a quick meal and her milk bottle and she is already in the land of dreams ^___^