star ice cream

Momichan and I went to a superstore in the afternoon; today is quite windy so is not a good idea to go to the park also I wanted to buy some new Kiko make up :) Momichan loves to go to the make up store because is full of enamels and eye colours of every shade tone of the rainbow.

After shopping we went to get an ice cream, there was a big publicity of a navy blue ice cream tasting cotton candy decorated with blue, white and pink tiny little stars.

Inside the super store there are also some games kids can amuse to ride, so I gave Momichan one euro coin to change and she went on a little train, then on a strange dragon and a plain :) she amused a lot.

playing mom and dad :)

At the park today a little friend of Momichan came with a stroller and two dolls, while she was going on the balance Momi and another friend played "mom and dad" :)

They waled along with the stroller pretending the two doll/baby were crying for milk bottle :)

Momi and her friend were perfect parents HAHAHA

easter decorations

Easter is coming so every shop is decorating and displaying eggs, bunnies and chicks everywhere. Also our preferred coffee shop has colombe (the tipical italian dessert) and eggs, so beautiful but normally so dear in price, best to buy at the supermarket the ones of your preferred character like Smurfs, Nemo, Princess, Winnie The Pooh or many other, the cost would be around 10 euro (the ones in the coffee stores would cost four or five times more).

Momichan has and egg of Dido paste with special shapers bunnies in limited edition, it it a present from granny and she will have the Easter Day :)
Inside kindergarden kids have also made some art work as present for the families and they have studied I believe some poetry to tell mom and dad :)
Like every time possible here we are at our preferred coffee shop for a coffee, a loot at the newspaper and a chat, offently Sampei buy some nut bread to take away and eat while working.

obentou :)

Momichan is getting out from kindergarden at 16.00 PM so every day I am preparing something to take her as snack :)
I am using bento boxes though she is not yet eating obentou, I am just filling the box with (like in this case) fruit juice pack, banana yogurt Yomino, some cookies shaped animals and some small chokolate easter eggs :)

male/female toys

When I was a kid my mum let me play with what ever I wanted, I had Lego cubes and Barbie dolls, little cars, and Cicciobello but also toys normally bought for male kids like swords, guns, robots and so on. I do not like to teach Momichan the difference between games and toys for females and males, I do not want her to have limits of this kind, I'd just like she can choose between what she really like not depending if it is something for male or not I just told her there are amusing and boring toys and games, so as this morning as I was at a superstore looking around while waiting my pc to be fixed up (it had a fastidious virus) I gave a look around at the book and toy section.
I found two new little books she was missing, Mulan and Stich (she has about 26 little books like this, Aristocats, Cinderella, Peter Pan ... and she loves to give a look and read before going to bed or take them in her sack when we go somewhere with the car), I also found a small blue car and I thought it would have been cute to play with inside the park.

As I reached Momichan in the kindergarden she quickly gave a look inside my sac and saw the little car, she gave a big smile and say "thankee mommyyyyy" :) we went to the park and she started to play everywhere, she never left the small car neither to go on the balance or the slider and when we came back home and I changed her to go to bed after dinner she wanted to keep it :) guess no other toy ever was much appreciated :) though she has two soft Ikea dolls and accessories (one japanese and the other black), little wooden trains, Lego block, many books, pelouches and more :)

Spring Day

For the first day of Spring inside the kindergarden Momichan and the other children have organized a special dance, they have created special flowered necklaces and have planted many coloured flowered at the entrance :)
For the occasion I have also decorated the false plant on the wall in Momichan bed corner with paper flowers and Momichan has very much appreciated :) the little coloured paper flowers are attached with a special gum so that we can take away when we want or substitute with something else :) I was thinking to add insects and birds, ladybugs, dragonfly, butterflies and eventually Momichan can help :)

father's day

In Europe the 19th march is Father's Day and kids at school organize some little handwork to build themself and give daddy as present (see foto, is a container for pen and writing items). Momichan herself has a little handwork with a little poetry she has learnt by heart to tell daddy this evening :) she is very jouzu :)

Not in all the world Father's Day is celebrated the 19th March, in Japan for instance is celebrated the 3rd sunday of June the same as in France, Martinica, Malesia, Malta, Mauritius, Switzerland, Bahamas and in many others, in Brazil Father's Day is the second sunday of August.

In Italy the special sweet for today is a kind of big fried frittella filled with egg cream and a cherry on the top, we bought two for daddy in our preferred coffee shop :) the name of this dessert is "dolce di San Giuseppe" :) (see foto on the right).

Today is quite cold anyway, sky is cloudy and a little chill wind blows around but when Momichan gets out of kindergarden at 16.00 PM we want to go to a special park where there are many free animals: squirrels, deers, roosters and chikens, rabbits ... and this evening we will stay out for dinner alltogather :)

The first animals we see at the entrance of the park are different types ducks and swans, either white or black, the black one are quite rare, beack is red and they can sing, the white ones are bigger, beack is orange and the voice is more a hiss than a normal sound.
We have brought half a kilo bread to give the them and Momichan amuses to throw them some bits :)
Walking towards the forest inside the park we meet many squirrels, we give them some bread and they take and run on a tree to eat, Momichan is excited, then we see a little rabbit and she start to run after him until he reaches a space with many chicken, roosters, indian peafowls (there are many, some of them are really enormous) and other ducks wse normally do not see ofter around.

Deers are just near in the same space, there are many and some come near us to take a look at us and maybe hoping we can give something to eat to them :)

Among the big deers we also see an emu :) so strange bird, with long soft feather, it doesn't fly but is able to run very fast.

It is already late despite sun light is still on and seems early but our stomachs tell us is neaqrly dinner time so we decide to go a tipical meat restaurant called Roadhouse near home, Momichan loves the meat we can eat there and also the big oven cooked potatoes, she eats a lot of meat this time and as soon as we arrive home I change her put a fresh pijama, give her her milk bottle and she soon fall in the land of dreams :)

easter decorations at home

Easter is coming so we have decorated our house with coloured eggs (bought in Ikea) and a "easter tree" :)

The easter tree is a little tree covered by little chicks and flowers, eventually coloured feathers, it comes from the swedish tradition and is a cute tradition also for us and Momichan who can help to decorate this little tree :)
Now we have two new Malm drawerchests in the genkan (see foto below) so we have space enough to put easter decorations and any other thing we need to have near the door (like Momichan little shoes put in the second drawer of the right side).
I have gone yesterday morning by bus to the neraby Ikea store to buy the paper eggs, they were selling many colours (yellow, orange, navy blue, green, pink and violet) and I bought all, we decided it would have been a cute sourprise also to give to four or five kindergarden friends of Momichan so I bought some eggs more togather with other four or five milk choko Ikea eggs and as soon as I went kindergarden to take Momichan, I gave her the eggs and told to distribute to her friends, she was really happy to help but she knows she also has the same eggs at home at the entrance, see the nest with the six coloured paper eggs ? we have one each, navy blue for Momichan, orange for daddy, green for granny, yellow for me and the other pink and violet just for decoration :)

the Dukan diet is a stupid thing :)

Since a week already until I guess 3 months I am on diet :)
Since Momichan has come to light I have fattenedd 10 kilos and now I have decided to loose some kilos and become the girl I was once but the battle is hard :)

As my mom is doing Dukan Diet and in a month has lost 7 kilos (she is a person no diet works with her normally) I was determined to try thinking it could work. I eat just the foods recommended and I do not eat nothing at all different from what is listed, nonetheless in a week time insted of loosing I took one kilo and a half !!!, I move a lot and often take Momichan in my arms for long periods going somewhere (she is now 15 kilos), drink a lot of water, use no salt but I have no results. (in the foto is my salad yesterday with carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes and salad, after salad I had a portion of non fat cheese .... )

I am a sweet teeth so is really hard for me going coffee shop and taking a coffee without even a tiny croissant, I have always to take with me a small bottle of skimmed milk to pour inside my coffee and never to eat anything outside the recommended list (proteines (meat, fish that I do not eat, eggs, ham with less than 5% fat and one day yes and one day no I can add veggies), Momichan is helping sometimes, if she looks at me and sees I am just taking a look around at bread or sweets she tell me "mommy you're on a diet you cannot eat" HAHAHA and she gives me a kiss :) how sweet !

BAH ! I know that diet are rigid and hard but I thougth that this one could work a little ... BAH I am really demoralized :( though I am going on :( but if at the end of the month I will have no results I will give up, I am not really fat, 163 for 65 kg I am a little round, normally I do not eat much nor I have many sugars or sweets, I normally eat much meat, egg, veggies (salads) and fruit, sometimes for breakfast I have a small croissant and once in a week I eat a kamut bread sandwich with just ham inside), sometimes I cook a cake and have a slice or two but my normal meals are well balanced and my blood exams tells the same :)

climbing the tree ...

As every day as soon as we get out the kindergarden Momichan and I go to the nearest park to play. Days are sunny recently and really hot and inside the park there are nearly all the kids of the kindergarden and the backside elementary school :) the result is the park is totally full but the kids does not have much to play: the slider is not secure because needs reparation, balances are half of the necessary, 2 instead of 4 one of which was for baby kids 7 month old, other attractions are too old and in bad conditions to be used. The only thing are the balances but how can you do 50 kids and just 2 balances ???? the Major doesn't say a single word on that, we (mums of the kindergarden) are trying to get many signatures in a petition to take to Townhall but we think it will not be useful, Major says "we have not money enough" but nonetheless they have spent 980000,00 euros to do a cycle track we did not need (but practically no cycle track have been done, just old sidewalk have been asphalted again but the cost is not 980000,00 euros !!!), this public administration is literally throwing away million of euros (saying they have not !!!) for idiot things we do not need, parks are a disaster, schools are the same, public green ... well is better not to talk about ... everything is going completely ruined and Major is doing nothing, at this point I have to say the park where we go is in the center of the town, like if we were in Milano, the park wuld be Duomo plaza, but the urban decline is really terrible !

The result of all the situation is that kids try to amuse not always in the convention way, Momichan was simply coping some kids of her class climbing a tree !!! it was not really dangerous because she was just at 10 cm from the ground but the tree was not happy at all to feel all the tiny feet trample on it :), iside the park the cannot go with the bikes, but ousite on the sidewalks is even more dangerous, the cannot play with the ball or skate, practically they can do nothing except use the attractions which are broken ........................... !!! no other place to go from 16.00 PM on, if you do not have a car like the major part of the parents here, the only thing we could is run or play hide and seek (not many places to hide really !) and have a giant strawberry ice cream !!! HAHAHA in our preferred coffee shop today ice creams have come out :) and Momichan was the first to eat one :) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

supermarket

Monday Sampei is free from work in the afternoon so we organized to go supermarket as we lacked of some milk and meat.
The supermarket we went is not our usual, (I can also reach by bus in 10 minutes) this one is bigger and quite far, I can just go with the car so as usually car is used by Sampei we have to go to the nearest one but this has many items more.
In the veggies zone we saw some new strange veggies like black potatoes (purple inside) and yellow carrots ... (the normal are orange, recently we saw the black ones and now the yellow !!! GOSH !).

Fruits and veggies were disposed like a rainbow, I guess it was an idea to sell more, mandarines, pears, papaya, berries, grapes (red, black and white) and much more, so yummy but just now I cannot eat any fruit because I am on a diet for a couple of months :)
In the pasta zone I found many Disney pasta, (we do not have in our locan store), Mickey Mouse, Lion King, Cinderella, Minnie, Donal Duck, letters, numbers, I bought Lion King and Cinderella for Momichan :)
Prices are not always low, just for some items like the drinking yogurt Momi has for breakfast every morning but here we have found also some small cereals (she can eat every type twice) in a special packet formed by 8 small packs everyone different, so she can have choko crispies, honey, normal ....
After having bought what we needed we came home for dinner, Momichan was enthusiast about the new foods but was really tired so after her new Lion King pasta with ragout I put her to bed, tomorrow she will have a special small pizza :)

Peppe birthday party

In the afternoon today Momichan is invited at Arcobaleno delle Favole to celebrate a friend birthday, for the occasion the other day I have gone togather with another mum to buy a present.
Arcobaleno is always a good idea for the kids, they can play with many things, climb, run, go on the slider, balance, play with the ball, hide and seek ... we had a reserved place where Peppe's mother has organized the party, apart from a big cake there where salami and ham sandwiches, pizza, pop corn, fries and beverages, 14 kids in all plus the parents.
The theme choosed was Spiderman so gobelets and dishes were coloured in red representing the preferred hero of Peppe and also the decoration on the cake was a cute image of Spiderman.
There were not so many kid inside the structure today and it is good because otherwise it is a big mess with kids running everywhere and too many parents shouting at their kids "pay attention to this... do not run ... hey where are you ? ..." I also had time to take a coffee looking at Momichan playing in the baby zone, she loves the little car (foto) and the small house :)
This time the final foto with all the kids seated at the table in front of the cake came out not so fantastic but it gives the idea. Cake was really yummy and also sandwiches, kids did not eated much but their attention was captured by games.
As everytime we go there, everything start to finish around 18.30, here at the moment is time sun goes away and night is arriving so it was time for everybody to go home.
Peppe has received many presents but unlike Momichan for her birthday, he choosed to open present in the quietness of his home and thank afterwards.
Momichan and I had an appointment with granny in the central plaza, grazzy as every saturday goes to church so as we were at the party we met at 19.00 PM instead of 17.00 PM and she gave us a lift home :) Momichan was really tired also because she has slept not much during nap time and after bath, pijama and dinner soup she was totally asleep, she has amused so much :)

women's day

Today in Italy we celebrate Women's Day :) everywhere is full of mimosa flowers, puffy yellow balls and our preferred coffee shop sells "mimosa cakes" fluffy yellow cake with cream inside covered by small yellow puffy dices :)

We are doing nothing particular as Sampei is working and Momichan and I are home alone anyway we went market to give a look at spring fruits and veggies, Momichan loves to go there, there are thousands of colours and smells, yummy fruits, roasted chikens and fries (I bought her some, see in the foto, she is eating) cheese and dresses, house items, pots and pans and other items but the most attractive things are flowers, she loves to see the different colours and smell them :) we have to choose a flower plant to take to kindergarden because the 21st, day of spring, kids will plant their flowers at the entrance of kindergarden and afterwards every kid will have to take care about his own flower, give water, take away dried leaves and so on, so Momi has to tell me which flower she likes, I guess she will want a red or deep violet one :)

hair cut and invitation for a cake ^^

Today Momichan is again having her hair cut, she wants them to be long but when hot temperature is making her head sweat she sayis she hates her hair HAHAHA so I take her to the hairdresser.

Momichan loves when the hairdresser wash her hair and then cut, she looks herself in the mirror and tells everybody she is cute HAHAHA (foto on the left BEFORE CUT).

This time her hair are really long, in the family we all have short hair, I do not like long hair and are absolutely not practical for a baby I have to wash every day, I have no time to spend to dry her hair, while if Momichan has short hair is easier with the phon to get them dry and she is more "cute" :) After having finished, I pay and look my cell phone ringing, a message has arrived, a friend is inviting us to his home to have a snack with a cake WOW.

The friend lives near our house, his mum is baking a cake and as she opens the door a yummy smell comes out ^O^ the kids start to play, Peppe shows his bedroom and his toys to Momichan and they start to play and jump around while his mum Maira and I have a chat and a coffee in the kitchen.
The cake is two colours: chokolate and normal, soft yummy :) Maira pours some chokolate cream on it and after call the kids to have a slice.

She even gives me a big slice to take home YUM, she doesn't know that the cake slice just after having been photographed has disappeared in my belly with the velocity of a lightning HAHAHA so yummy indeed but you know I'm a sweet teeth HAHAHA ^^

man teared to pieces by dogs ...

Just a few days ago, a friend of sista has been teared to pieces by a group of free dogs near my mum's house. Up till now the beasts are not have been taken thoug police is collaborating to find the five dangerous dogs.

The man (friend of my sister) has come on visit but as my sister was not at home he had called her to say he would wait for her while taking a walk to the nearest park and look for some fishes. When he came back after having seen the fishes he has been attacked by the dogs. (LEFT FOTO IS THE HELICOPTER ARRIVED TO TAKE THE MAN TO THE HOSPITAL, RIGHT FOTO IS JUST TWO DOGS, NOTTHE ONES OF THE ATTACK)

The man has been helped by another man who was working in the nearby but despite this his conditions were serious, an ambulance and an helicopter were called and he has been trasported to the nearest hospital where he died soon after.

Police is now trying to catch the dogs but is not easy, the nearest Centenario Park in front of wich the attack has been done is not a safe place also because it has been discovered a big hole in the net so that the dogs can come inside, in the park with a coffee shop in the middle, has a zone for little kids and people go there on sunny days with kids, to take a coffe or ice cream, ride bicicles, play soccer, make pic-nicks and relax. Inside the park there is also a zone where to take dogs to play so many dog owners come to the park.

The problem is that the dogs have not been taken yet and people think the accident has been occurred sowhere else due to the bad news on the net and newspapers.

When in the evning of the attack my mum called me to inform me not to even think to come to the park with Momichan and she explained what was happening (meanwhile sista was at the hospital with her friend to assist) Momichan started to weep, she was frightened the dogs could attack her granny who lives in front of the park, 300 meters where the accident occurred. We had to explain her we and granny were safe and nothing could happen until we stayed home. While eating dinner in the kitchen I left Momichan just a few minutes to go bedroom to organize for the night and take milk bottle to be washed, I heard her cry desperately terrorised and had to run immediately and take her into my arms and kiss her to calm her.

Now she knows about everything of the situation and every person she meets she tell him or her not to go to the park because they can die (I remember you Momichan is just 3 years old) but she is now quite calm because she knows granny is safe and just comes out of the house with a big car when she needs to move to go somewhere and always looks outside before opening the door.

decorations ...

Since a few days a have a new booklet that teaches how to decorate glass.

Togather with the book there are some special colours to decorate, is a special glue colour paste that once dried becomes transparent.

The peeping monster (here on the left) is quite big, I have attached it on the bathroom window and it's quite funny horrible but cheerful ^^

I have made other decorations, a jungle, (zebra, elephant, snake, gyraff and tiger)some insects and a big bird in the middle of a forest, Momichan loves them all because they are so colorful even if the jungle has funny colours.

Here is the book I have bought, inside there are many images you can copy to make your wonderful decorations, it is sufficient you put the included plastic sheet on the image you want to do and trace it with the special black ink, when is dried you can fill in the image with the other colours and after wait 24 hours to peel the image off the plastic sheet and make it adhere to whatever window you like ^___^

I want to decorate the future bedroom window of Momichan with many images, whatever I like it is sufficient copy an image somewhere and after cover it with the special colours, I can change images on the windows every season, making leaves for the automs, flowers for the spring, fishes for the summer, pine trees for the X'Mas season, no limits to immagination and when the colours are finished I have just to go to some colour shop who sells wall and glass colours and buy the colours I need ^O^ (right now I need white, deep blue and some more black).

sunday ...

On sunday Momichan's dad is free until 3 o'clock so we have a little more time to stay togather.

This morning we are going to say "goodbye" to the owners of the Carousel, in the evening they will dismantle the carousel and put it in the truck to go away.

As every week-end we take a walk to our preferred coffee shop, we take coffee and we buy special paste to make pizza for lunch and after Momichan goes to the carousel.

Momichan is a little tired today and she profit of daddy taking a small nap on his shoulders (foto).

Here is Momichan happily going on the carousel, she has taken the pony tail which allows her to make a free ride ^O^ she loves the

fireengine and the horses, sometimes she also goes into the big coffee cup and want us to make her turn quickly ^O^